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What Hatchet really costs at your usage

Hatchet priced at YOUR usage from verified pricing pages — no free tier — paid from day one. See the free-tier ceiling, the per-unit overage, and exactly when it starts costing real money.

Prices verified 2026-07-17 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 1,000,000 job runs/month, a $50 budget for this slot, Hatchet ranks first for these inputs at 79% fit and a StackSays-estimated $9.00/month. Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

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Job runs / month (thousands)100 = 100,000 executions; note: Inngest counts each STEP, Temporal counts each action — multi-step workflows consume moreBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the jobs platform layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Clear pick for your inputs

Hatchetfit 79% · est $9.00/mo

Open-source Postgres-backed task queue; generous usage pricing, brutal $0→$500 plan cliff

Hatchetfit 79%

$9.00/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 1,000,000 job runs/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the jobs platform slot, Hatchet leads at 79% fit and $9.00/mo. The two rules doing the work: budget fit (~$9/mo is 18% of your $50/mo budget); batteries included (Bundles durable workflows/steps, queues, concurrency controls — fewer services to glue at team size 1).

Honest weak spot of the pick: no free tier — paying from day one.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why Hatchet scores 79%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$9/mo is 18% of your $50/mo budget+30

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Bundles durable workflows/steps, queues, concurrency controls — fewer services to glue at team size 1+12

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — Self-hostable — the escape hatch if pricing or limits change+2.8

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — growing — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool-1.6

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — No free tier — paying from day one-6

Total (lines sum exactly)37.2

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(37.2 + 64) / 128 = 79%

How the $9.00/mo estimate is calculated

job runs overage — 900K over 100K included × $0.01/K$9.00

Note — First 100K runs free, then $10 per 1M task runs; SOC 2 Type II included$0

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$9.00

What could change this verdict

No single input change within the tested range changes the winner.

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$9.00/mo · Developer

Free-tier statusNo free tier — paid from the first unit

Official prices verified 2026-07-17; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Hatchet	No free tier	Team $500/mo	2026-07-17

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Hatchet	Hatchet pricing	2026-07-17

A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.

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