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Trigger.dev
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TypeScript background jobs for long-running application tasks.
Trigger.dev is an open-source TypeScript background-jobs product with long-running tasks, retries, and a dashboard. It wraps AI work that outlives a serverless request.
- Model support
- Multi-model
- Deployment
- Cloud, Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Pricing model
- Mixed
- Added / updated
- 19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026
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Assessment
Trigger.dev fits TypeScript applications that need long-running jobs, retries, and a dashboard. The service orchestrates tasks; an agent or coding harness remains an additional component. Compare it with Temporal on durability requirements.
Strengths
- TypeScript-native long tasks.
- Apache-2.0 with a hosted cloud.
- Durable tasks with retries, schedules, and event triggers in application code.
Limitations
- No coding harness.
- Self-host vs cloud features should be checked.
- Job execution does not enforce evaluation or merge gates.