Inngest Has a Free Event-Driven Functions Platform — Reliable Background Processing Made Simple

A SaaS needed to: send welcome email after signup, sync to CRM after 1 hour, check activation after 3 days. Building this with queues meant Redis, workers, monitoring.

Inngest is event-driven functions. Send events, functions react. Built-in retries, scheduling, step functions - no queue infrastructure.

What Inngest Offers for Free

• 25,000 Runs/Month - Free tier
• Step Functions - Multi-step workflows with automatic retries per step
• Event-Driven - Functions triggered by events
• Scheduling - Cron and delayed execution
• Concurrency - Control parallel execution
• Debouncing - Prevent duplicate processing
• Dashboard - Full observability
• Any Framework - Next.js, Express, Hono, SvelteKit

Quick Start

import { inngest } from './client'

export const onUserSignup = inngest.createFunction(
  { id: 'user-signup-flow' },
  { event: 'user/signup' },
  async ({ event, step }) => {
    await step.run('send-welcome', async () => {
      await sendWelcomeEmail(event.data.email)
    })
    await step.sleep('wait-1-hour', '1h')
    await step.run('sync-crm', async () => {
      await syncToCRM(event.data.userId)
    })
  }
)

Website: inngest.com - 25K runs/month free

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