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What Inngest really costs at your usage

Inngest priced at YOUR usage from verified pricing pages — 50K executions + 500K events/month, 5 concurrent runs — functions PAUSE when exhausted. 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 150,000 job runs/month, a $50 budget for this slot, Inngest ranks first for these inputs at 48% fit and a StackSays-estimated $99.00/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

Inngestfit 48% · est $99.00/mo

Durable step functions billed per execution; concurrency is the real paid lever

Inngestfit 48%

$99.00/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 150,000 job runs/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the jobs platform slot, Inngest leads at 48% fit and $99.00/mo. The two rules doing the work: batteries included (Bundles durable workflows/steps, queues, concurrency controls — fewer services to glue at team size 1); ecosystem maturity (established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool).

Honest weak spot of the pick: ~$99/mo is 198% of your $50/mo budget — over it.

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

Why Inngest scores 48%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$99/mo is 198% of your $50/mo budget — over it-29.4

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) — established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool+8

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — Free tier exists (50K executions + 500K events/month, 5 concurrent runs — functions PAUSE when exhausted) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it+4

Total (lines sum exactly)-2.6

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(-2.6 + 64) / 128 = 48%

How the $99.00/mo estimate is calculated

Pro base — includes 1,000K job runs$99.00

Note — 1M executions included, then $50/1M; 100 concurrency (+$25 per 25); note: each STEP counts as an execution, so multi-step functions consume the quota fast$0

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$99.00

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)$99.00/mo · Pro

Free-tier statusFree tier exceeded (job runs 150K > 50K cap)

Next known billing thresholdat 1,000K job runs, overage starts ($0.05/K)

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

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Inngest	50K executions + 500K events/month, 5 concurrent runs — functions PAUSE when exhausted	Pro $99/mo	2026-07-17

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Inngest	Inngest 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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