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Inngest alternatives — ranked for your stack
Leaving Inngest? The other jobs platform options ranked at your usage, budget and constraints with verified dated pricing — plus when Inngest is still the right call.
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 100,000 job runs/month, a $50 budget for this slot, Cloudflare Queues + Workers Cron ranks first for these inputs at 90% fit and a StackSays-estimated $0/month (Upstash QStash: 88% fit, $1.00/month). Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.
Your situation
The verdict updates as you move these.
Toss-up — your priorities decide, not the tools
Cheapest at scale by an order of magnitude — if your jobs fit the Workers runtime
vs Upstash QStash: fit 90% against 88%, est $0 against $1.00 per month — genuinely close; read both risk lists below
Comparing 7 tools head-to-head. Open the full field (8 options) →
The decision, in plain words
For a solo builder at 100,000 job runs/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the jobs platform slot, Cloudflare Queues + Workers Cron leads at 90% fit and $0/mo. The two rules doing the work: budget fit (Runs free at your usage — $0 vs your $50/mo budget); free-tier runway (Your usage fits the free tier today (10K queue ops/day (≈3K delivered messages), 100K worker requests/day, 10ms CPU per invocation, 24h retention)).
Upstash QStash is a genuine coin-flip here (88% fit, $1.00/mo) — read both risk lists and pick the failure mode you prefer.
Honest weak spot of the pick: proprietary runtime — migrating jobs means rewriting orchestration code.
Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.
Why Cloudflare Queues + Workers Cron scores 90%
How the $0/mo estimate is calculated
Your usage fits Cloudflare Queues + Workers Cron's free tier (10K queue ops/day (≈3K delivered messages), 100K worker requests/day, 10ms CPU per invocation, 24h retention) — the estimate is $0.
What could change this verdict
Cost risk
Official prices verified 2026-07-17; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.
At a glance
| Tool | Free tier | Paid entry | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trigger.dev | No free tier | Hobby $10/mo | 2026-07-17 |
| Upstash QStash | 1,000 messages/day (≈30K/month), 10 schedules, parallelism 10 | Pay-as-you-go — $1 per 100K messages, unlimited daily volume, 1000 schedules; every delivery ATTEMPT is a billed message — retries multiply cost | 2026-07-17 |
| Temporal Cloud | No free tier | Essentials $100/mo | 2026-07-17 |
| Hatchet | No free tier | Team $500/mo | 2026-07-17 |
| Cloudflare Queues + Workers Cron | 10K queue ops/day (≈3K delivered messages), 100K worker requests/day, 10ms CPU per invocation, 24h retention | Workers Paid $5/mo | 2026-07-17 |
| Vercel Cron | No free tier | Pro $20/mo | 2026-07-17 |
| Railway Cron | No free tier | Hobby $5/mo | 2026-07-17 |
Data sources
| Tool | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger.dev | Trigger.dev pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Upstash QStash | Upstash QStash pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Temporal Cloud | Temporal Cloud pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Hatchet | Hatchet pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Cloudflare Queues + Workers Cron | Cloudflare Queues pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Vercel Cron | Vercel cron usage & pricing | 2026-07-17 |
| Railway Cron | Railway cron jobs reference | 2026-07-17 |
A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.