trigger.dev
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🎯 Best for:Engineering teams building complex, multi-step AI workflows.
What is trigger.dev?
Provides a background job framework designed for long-running tasks and AI agent orchestration. It features integrated observability and state management without the execution limits of serverless functions.
Tech Stack
TypeScriptAutomation & Workflow
Why trigger.dev?
- • Handles long-running tasks
- • Native TypeScript support
- • Self-hostable infrastructure
Limitations
- • Requires infrastructure management
- • Steeper curve than no-code
- • Smaller integration library
3/5/2026
Last Update
1,067
Forks
218
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Zapier)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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