Trigger.dev Has a Free Background Jobs Platform — Long-Running Tasks Without Infrastructure

Trigger.dev lets you write reliable background jobs in TypeScript without managing infrastructure.

What You Get for Free

• 5,000 runs/month — free cloud tier
• Long-running tasks — up to 5 minutes (free), hours (paid)
• Retry & error handling — automatic retries with backoff
• Scheduling — cron-based recurring tasks
• Webhooks — handle incoming webhooks reliably
• Concurrency control — limit parallel executions
• Real-time logs — see task execution as it happens
• TypeScript-first — full type safety, great DX
• Integrations — OpenAI, Slack, Stripe, Resend, Supabase
• Self-hosted — free, unlimited runs

Quick Start

npx trigger.dev@latest init

import { task } from "@trigger.dev/sdk/v3";

export const processOrder = task({
  id: "process-order",
  retry: { maxAttempts: 3 },
  run: async (payload: { orderId: string }) => {
    // This runs reliably in the background
    await generateInvoice(payload.orderId);
    await sendEmail(payload.orderId);
    await updateInventory(payload.orderId);
  },
});

// Trigger from your API
await processOrder.trigger({ orderId: "123" });

Why Developers Choose It

Bull/BullMQ requires Redis. Celery requires RabbitMQ:

• No infrastructure — no Redis, no RabbitMQ, no workers to manage
• TypeScript native — not Python, not YAML, real code with types
• Dashboard — see every run, debug failures visually
• Self-hosted option — run your own when you need it

A SaaS app processed orders synchronously — timeout errors when payment + email + inventory took >30 seconds. They moved to Trigger.dev — background processing with automatic retries, zero timeout errors, and a dashboard showing every step.

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