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Inngest vs Temporal Cloud — for your app, not in general

Inngest or Temporal Cloud? Set your usage, budget and constraints; the verdict, monthly cost and risks update live from verified pricing.

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, Inngest ranks first for these inputs at 48% fit and a StackSays-estimated $99.00/month (Temporal Cloud: 40% fit, $100.00/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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Clear pick for your inputs

Inngestfit 48% · est $99.00/mo

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

vs Temporal Cloud: fit 48% against 40%, est $99.00 against $100.00+ per month

Inngestfit 48%
$99.00/mo
Temporal Cloudfit 40%
$100.00+/mo

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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, 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).

The gap to Temporal Cloud (40% fit) is wide at these inputs — you'd need to change your requirements, not your taste, to flip it.

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

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$99.00/mo · Pro
Free-tier statusFree tier exceeded (job runs 100K > 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

ToolFree tierPaid entryVerified
Inngest50K executions + 500K events/month, 5 concurrent runs — functions PAUSE when exhaustedPro $99/mo2026-07-17
Temporal CloudNo free tierEssentials $100/mo2026-07-17
Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

ToolSourceVerified
InngestInngest pricing2026-07-17
Temporal CloudTemporal Cloud pricing2026-07-17

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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