Agent Description

Trigger.dev is a developer-friendly, open-source background jobs framework that simplifies building reliable workflows and AI agents using standard async code, eliminating timeouts and infrastructure overhead. With built-in queuing, retries, and observability, it scales seamlessly for tasks like video processing and LLM orchestration, supporting both cloud and self-hosted deployments.

Key Features

• Write workflows in standard async JavaScript/TypeScript with no timeout limits.
• Automatically scales tasks with Kubernetes-based elastic infrastructure.
• Provides intelligent retries with configurable exponential backoff for failed tasks.
• Offers real-time observability via OpenTelemetry-powered dashboards and traces.
• Supports concurrent task execution and custom queues for rate-limited APIs.
• Enables idempotent subtasks with result caching for efficient retries.
• Integrates with Next.js, Node.js, and APIs like OpenAI, with Realtime API for frontend updates.

Use Cases

• AI Workflow Orchestration: Chains LLM prompts for multi-stage processing, streaming results to frontends for AI-driven applications, as used by Algora for bounty processing.
• Video Processing: Handles large-scale video pipelines with FFmpeg, reducing ad generation time to under 5 minutes through parallel processing for media companies.
• Data Synchronization: Executes ETL processes to sync data across databases, ensuring reliability for SaaS platforms with thousands of jobs, as seen in WhatsApp messaging workflows.
• Event-Driven Systems: Orchestrates complex event engines with persistent state and concurrency, enabling rapid migration for startups like Y Combinator-backed firms.

Differentiation Factors

• Zero-timeout, durable execution with checkpoint-resume surpasses AWS Lambda’s 15-minute limit.
• Open-source and self-hostable with CRIU-based checkpointing outshines Inngest’s cloud-only model.
• Simplified async code syntax beats Temporal’s verbose workflow definitions for developer productivity.

Pricing Plans

• Free: $0/month, $5 free monthly usage
• Hobby: $10/month, $10 monthly usage included
• Pro: $50/month, $50 monthly usage included

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• What is Trigger.dev?
  Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for building durable background jobs and AI workflows in async code, with no timeouts and full observability.
• How does Trigger.dev handle task failures?
  It uses intelligent retries with exponential backoff and caches idempotent subtask results to ensure reliable execution without duplication.
• Can I self-host Trigger.dev?
  Yes, it’s fully open-source and supports self-hosting, though v3 requires CRIU-compatible systems for checkpointing.
• Does Trigger.dev support real-time frontend updates?
  Yes, its Realtime API with React hooks streams task status and results directly to frontends.