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Trigger.dev
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Background jobs for TypeScript apps, including long agent runs.
Trigger.dev is an open-source background-jobs product for TypeScript: long-running tasks, retries, and a dashboard. It is popular for wrapping AI work that outlives a serverless request.
- Model independence
- Multi-model
- Deployment
- Cloud, Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Pricing model
- Mixed
- Added / updated
- 19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026
trigger.dev · Docs · Source
Editorial take
If the factory is a Next.js app, Trigger is the orchestrator that will get merged. Not Temporal. Not an agent. Long timeouts are the feature.
Strengths
- TypeScript-native long tasks.
- Apache-2.0 with a hosted cloud.
- Sane fit for app-shaped factories.
Limitations
- Not a coding harness.
- Self-host vs cloud features should be checked.
- Easy to hide an agent inside a job and skip gates.