Trigger.dev
by Trigger.dev
Background jobs and long-running tasks for AI apps. Write functions, get durability, observability, and retries.
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Trigger.dev
Added 17 May 2026
Overview
Trigger.dev is a TypeScript-first background job platform with strong support for AI workloads. Long-running tasks, retries, concurrency control, and an observability dashboard are first class. The newest version emphasises the agent use case explicitly.
Best for
Best for
TypeScript teams shipping long-running agent jobs in production
Use cases
- Run an agent task that takes minutes or hours, durably
- Schedule recurring agent jobs (daily reports, periodic refreshes)
- Bound concurrency to keep model spend predictable
- Observe and replay agent runs with full history
Notes
Why it matters
Agents that have to run for minutes or hours need durability. Trigger.dev is one of the cleanest answers for TypeScript teams without leaning on heavyweight infra.
How teams use it in production
Write the agent step as a Trigger.dev task. Use the inspector to debug. Add concurrency limits before the model spend gets surprising.
What to watch
Trigger.dev v3 leans hard into the agent use case. The race with Inngest for the AI durability story is the live question.
Pros
- Excellent developer experience, write a function and ship
- Observability dashboard is genuinely useful for debugging
- Self-hostable, not only hosted
- Strong concurrency and rate-limit controls
Cons
- TypeScript only, no Python sibling
- Hosted free tier limits hit fast for heavy usage
- Newer than Inngest in some advanced primitives
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