Index live · v1.7.0 · SEP 12 2026

Trigger.dev

Open-source background jobs for TypeScript — long-running agent tasks without timeouts, with retries and realtime status.

Overview

Trigger.dev runs TypeScript tasks on its own infrastructure or yours, with no execution time limit, automatic retries, and checkpointing so a task waiting on an external call is not holding a server. Tasks are plain functions in the application repo, deployed with a CLI, and observable from a dashboard with realtime streaming back to the frontend — which suits agent runs that report progress as they go.

Why it's indexed

For a Next.js team the shortest path from "the agent times out on Vercel" to a job that just runs.

Editorial judgement, not a measurement — see our methodology. Listing is never paid for.

At a glance

License
Apache-2.0
Deployment
Hybrid
Languages
TypeScript
Pricing model
Open source · Free tier · Usage-based

Pricing is shown as a model, not a rate. Published rates change without notice — check the vendor's own page before budgeting.

Tags

background-jobstypescriptdurableopen-sourcerealtime

Also in Orchestration & Workflows

Newsletter

Stay ahead of the AI skills curve

Every issue: what we added to the directory, what we rejected and why, and one workflow worth stealing. Nothing you'd get from an AI news roundup.

Free forever. Unsubscribe anytime. No spam. Read a past issue.