6 free alternatives to Inngest

Trigger.dev's free plan includes access to $5 in monthly usage, up to 20 concurrent runs, unlimited tasks, up to 5 team members, dev and prod environments, preview branches, custom dashboards, up to 10 schedules, 1 day of log retention, 1 day of query period, community support, 1 alert destination, and up to 10 concurrent Realtime connections. That makes it a better fit for teams that want a task orchestration product with built-in scheduling and collaboration on a small free allowance. It beats Inngest on team size and schedules. It falls short on execution scale and realtime capacity. Switch if you care more about schedules and team collaboration than raw throughput.

• Beats Inngest: Up to 5 team members and up to 10 schedules
• Falls short: 50,000 executions per month and 50 realtime connections
• Who should switch: Switch to Trigger.dev if you need a small orchestration setup with schedules and a larger free team than Inngest allows.

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Daestro's free tier includes 10 concurrent job runs, 2 compute spawns, 1 cloud provider account, 1 container registry auth, 1 day of logs retention, 500 MB of logs and metrics storage, and 1 cron job. It is the clearest fit for batch jobs and cron-style orchestration where infrastructure linkage matters more than event volume. It beats Inngest on direct compute and deployment linkage because it gives you cloud provider and registry connections on the free plan. It falls short on overall execution volume, realtime connections, and team access. Switch if your free use case is job execution on linked infrastructure rather than event-driven workflow orchestration.

• Beats Inngest: Compute spawns and cloud provider linkage
• Falls short: 50,000 executions per month and 3 users
• Who should switch: Switch to Daestro if your free jobs are mostly batch or cron based and you want provider linkage on day one.

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Prefect Cloud's free Hobby tier includes up to 2 users, 1 workspace, up to 5 deployments, 500 serverless credits per month, 5 automations, an API rate limit of 625 requests per minute, 7 days of run retention, and a community support channel. It is a better fit for builders who want a managed workflow platform with a clear deployment model and an API-oriented control plane. It beats Inngest on API rate limit and gives you a defined workspace and deployment structure. It falls short on execution-style throughput because the free tier is framed around deployments, automations, and serverless credits rather than high-volume executions and realtime connections. Switch if your main constraint is control-plane access, not execution count.

• Beats Inngest: 625 requests per minute API rate limit
• Falls short: 50,000 executions per month and 50 realtime connections
• Who should switch: Switch to Prefect Cloud if you want a workspace-based orchestration setup with serverless credits and a strong API control plane.

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AWS Step Functions includes 4,000 free state transitions per month for Standard Workflows, and the free tier does not automatically expire after 12 months. It applies only to Standard Workflows, and retry attempts count as additional transitions, so it is a simple perpetual starter allowance for AWS users. It beats Inngest on permanence because the free tier keeps going for new and existing AWS customers. It falls short on breadth because the allowance is much smaller and limited to state transitions rather than broader orchestration quotas like concurrent steps or realtime connections. Switch if you already live in AWS and want an always-available baseline for low-volume workflows.

• Beats Inngest: Free tier does not expire after 12 months
• Falls short: 50,000 executions per month and 5 concurrent steps
• Who should switch: Switch to AWS Step Functions if you want a perpetual low-volume starter tier inside AWS.

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Temporal's free offer is a one-time $1,000 credit, with a separate Startup Program that offers $6,000 in free Temporal Cloud credits for eligible startups under $30M in funding. That gives you far more starting room than a monthly allowance if you are evaluating a durable execution platform seriously. It beats Inngest on upfront dollar value by a wide margin. It falls short on ongoing predictability because it is credit-based, not a recurring free tier, so the free room eventually runs out. Switch if you want to prototype or onboard with a larger temporary budget and are comfortable moving to paid usage later.

• Beats Inngest: $1,000 in free credits
• Falls short: 50,000 executions per month and recurring monthly free access
• Who should switch: Switch to Temporal if you want the largest free starting budget and can live with a one-time credit model.

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Cloud Functions for Firebase includes no-cost usage up to 2 million invocations per month, 400,000 GB-seconds of execution time per month, 200,000 CPU-seconds of execution time per month, 5 GB of outbound networking per month, 120 Cloud Build minutes per day, and 500 MB of container storage in Artifact Registry. It is a strong fit for event-driven backend work around Firebase and web or mobile apps. It beats Inngest on sheer invocation volume and broad runtime allowances. It falls short on orchestration-specific features like concurrent steps, realtime connections, and workflow controls. Switch if your main need is serverless backend execution with a much higher free ceiling.

• Beats Inngest: 2 million invocations per month
• Falls short: 5 concurrent steps and workflow orchestration features
• Who should switch: Switch to Cloud Functions for Firebase if you need a much higher free invocation limit for event-driven backend code.

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