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Inngest
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Event-driven durable functions for product and agent jobs.
Inngest runs durable, event-driven functions. You write steps; Inngest handles retries, fan-out, and sleep. It is lighter than Temporal for many product teams and now commonly used to sequence tool-calling and agent jobs.
- Model independence
- Multi-model
- Deployment
- Cloud, Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- See repository; Inngest Cloud is a service
- Pricing model
- Mixed
- Added / updated
- 19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026
www.inngest.com · Docs · Source
Editorial take
Inngest is what you reach for when Temporal feels like a platform hire. Good for “issue opened → sandbox → harness → PR” as steps. Not a coding agent. Compare it to Temporal on durability needs, not on model quality.
Strengths
- Step functions with events, usable from common app languages.
- Self-host option plus a managed cloud.
- Fits product-shaped factories better than a general workflow religion.
Limitations
- Younger operations story than Temporal at huge scale.
- You still bring the agent and the box.
- License and feature split between OSS and Cloud should be re-read.
Compare
- vs temporal — Durable workflow runtimes that can sequence factory steps.