Workflow Management · Founded by Tony Holdstock-Brown & Chris Baxter in 2022

Inngest

Developer platform for building background jobs, queues, and event-driven workflows in JavaScript apps.

Cost

Free Tier, Paid

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

Use Inngest to run reliable background tasks, scheduled jobs, and serverless workflows without managing your own queues or infrastructure. It lets developers write background functions as simple JavaScript or TypeScript code, triggered by events, cron schedules, or APIs. Perfect for modern apps needing retries, step functions, and observability without worrying about workers or queues. Ideal for teams looking to keep serverless architectures maintainable and scalable.

What Inngest does

Create background jobs using simple JavaScript or TypeScript functionsTrigger workflows via events, API calls, or scheduled cron jobsBuild multi-step workflows with automatic retries and error handlingRun workflows without managing workers or queuesMonitor executions with logs and observability dashboardsIntegrate with modern deployment platforms for seamless dev experienceWrite background jobs as pure functions in JavaScript/TypeScriptAutomatic retries, queues, and error handling built-inSupport for multi-step workflows with step functionsRich observability dashboard for tracing executionsCron scheduling without managing separate infrastructureSeamless serverless deployment on modern platforms