What is Trigger.dev?
Managed agents and workflows with retries and observability.
Who is Trigger.dev best for?
Trigger.dev is best for TypeScript developers who need long-running background jobs and AI agents with retries.
AI agents that run for a long time
Tasks have no timeouts and are checkpointed, so an agent survives crashes and redeploys and can pause for a human to approve a step.
Background jobs in TypeScript apps
Jobs are plain async code in your own repo, with retries, queues and concurrency limits set in code instead of a separate workflow tool.
Media and file processing
Build extensions add FFmpeg, Puppeteer, Python and system packages to the task container, so heavy work stays off your web server.
Teams that want to self-host
The code is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and the docs include a guide to running it on your own servers.
How much does Trigger.dev cost?
Trigger.dev has a free plan with $5 of usage credits a month, and its paid plans cost $10 a month (Hobby) or $50 a month (Pro), each with the same amount in credits before per-second compute billing starts.
- $5 of usage credits a month
- 20 concurrent runs, 5 team members
- 1-day log retention, 10 schedules
- $10 of usage credits a month included
- 50 concurrent runs, 5 team members
- 7-day log retention, 100 schedules
- $50 of usage credits a month included
- 200 concurrent runs and 25 seats, with paid add-ons for more
- 30-day log retention and dedicated Slack support
Enterprise is priced on request and adds SSO, role-based access, custom log retention and priority support. Past the included credits, compute is billed by the second while a task runs (the default Small 1x machine, 0.5 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM, is $0.0000338 a second), plus $0.25 per 10,000 runs; time spent waiting is not billed. On Pro, extra concurrency costs $10 a month per 50 runs and extra seats $20 a month each. The Free plan stops running tasks once its $5 is used, while paid plans keep running and bill the extra. A HIPAA BAA is a paid add-on from Hobby up. Full pricing on trigger.dev. We checked these prices on .
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Is Trigger.dev open source?
Yes. Trigger.dev's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
16,761stars
- Last commit
- 13 Nov
- Repository age
- 3 years
- Latest release
- 12 Nov
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- triggerdotdev/trigger.dev
How do I connect Trigger.dev to my AI agent?
Trigger.dev MCP is Trigger.dev's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to run, deploy and debug Trigger.dev background tasks.
Gives your coding agent your Trigger.dev projects and docs, so it can trigger tasks, follow runs, read errors and deploy new versions of your background jobs.
$ claude mcp add trigger-dev -- npx trigger.dev@latest install-mcp
It runs on your computer, so Claude Code starts it when it needs it.
Trigger.dev's setup guide covers the sign-in.
Then ask your agent
- Runs
- On your computer
- Sign-in
- See guide
- Maker
- Trigger.dev
- Guide
- trigger.dev
What are the best Trigger.dev alternatives?
Trigger.dev is an open source alternative to Mistral Workflows. Omnara does the same job and is open source too.
Questions about Trigger.dev
What is Trigger.dev?
Managed agents and workflows with retries and observability.
Who is Trigger.dev for?
Trigger.dev is best for TypeScript developers who need long-running background jobs and AI agents with retries.
Is Trigger.dev free?
Yes. Trigger.dev has a free plan: $5 of usage credits a month.
How much does Trigger.dev cost?
Trigger.dev's paid plans are Hobby at $10 per month and Pro at $50 per month.
Is Trigger.dev open source?
Yes. Trigger.dev's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
Does Trigger.dev have an MCP server?
Yes. Trigger.dev MCP is Trigger.dev's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can run, deploy and debug Trigger.dev background tasks. It runs on your computer.
What are the best Trigger.dev alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Mistral Workflows and Omnara.
Where can I try Trigger.dev?
On its official website, trigger.dev.
How is Trigger.dev usage billed?
Trigger.dev bills compute by the second while a task is running, plus $0.25 per 10,000 runs, and waiting time is not counted. Its own example, a 10-second task run 100 times a day on the default machine, comes to about $1.09 a month.
Can I self-host Trigger.dev?
Yes. Trigger.dev is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and publishes a self-hosting guide. The paid plans cover Trigger.dev Cloud, where the company runs and scales the workers for you and bills compute by the second.
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