Trigger.dev

Platform

Open-source background jobs and durable AI agents in TypeScript

Price: Open source; Cloud free tier, then paid
Access: Secret key

About

Write long-running tasks in TypeScript with no timeouts and run them on Trigger.dev Cloud or your own servers. Handles queues, retries, schedules and realtime run status. Apache-2.0 licensed; self-hosting lacks warm starts and auto-scaling.

What you can do with it

Run long AI tasks and agent loops without serverless timeouts
Queue background jobs with retries and concurrency limits
Stream task progress and LLM output to your frontend in realtime

Get started

Sign up for Trigger.dev Cloud or self-host it
Run npx trigger.dev@latest init in your project
Run npx trigger.dev@latest dev and trigger a task

Example

// npx trigger.dev@latest init adds the SDK; set TRIGGER_SECRET_KEY to trigger runs
import { task } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";

export const helloWorld = task({
  id: "hello-world",
  run: async (payload: { message: string }) => {
    console.log(payload.message);
  },
});

// From your backend: const handle = await helloWorld.trigger({ message: "Hello world!" });

Details

Hosting: Hosted service, Self-hosted
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: JavaScript/TypeScript
MCP server: Local