How much does Trigger.dev cost in 2026?
Quick Answer: Trigger.dev Cloud has a free tier with 10,000 monthly runs and 14-day history, Pro at $50/month (250,000 runs, 30-day history), Team at $200/month (1 million runs, 90-day history), and quote-based Enterprise. Apache 2.0 self-hosting is free of quota.
Trigger.dev uses run-based pricing on the managed Cloud product and is free under Apache 2.0 for self-hosting. As of May 2026, the published tiers are:
Published tiers (verified 2026-05-08)
- Free: 10,000 runs/month, 14-day run history, 1 production environment
- Pro: $50/month, 250,000 runs/month, 30-day history, multi-environment, email support
- Team: $200/month, 1 million runs/month, 90-day history, concurrency controls, priority support
- Enterprise: Quote-based, dedicated infrastructure, SSO, SOC 2 attestation, custom SLAs
- Self-hosted (open source): Apache 2.0 license, no run quota, requires Docker, Postgres, and Redis-compatible queue
What counts as a run
Each task invocation counts as one run. Tasks that wait or sleep do not count again on resumption. Failed runs that exhaust their retry budget count once.
Cold-start considerations
Trigger.dev v3 isolates each run in a fresh Node.js container, which adds 1-3 seconds of cold-start overhead compared to Inngest's hot serverless model. For high-throughput, low-latency jobs Inngest may be a better fit; for occasional long-running tasks the isolation is an advantage.
Comparison to alternatives
For a team running 250,000 background runs per month:
- Trigger.dev Pro: $50/month
- Inngest Pro: $50/month (counts step runs, not whole runs — actual cost depends on step count)
- Hatchet Cloud Starter: $25/month plus $0.001 per execution above 100K = $175/month
- Self-hosted Trigger.dev: ~$80-$150/month infrastructure
Trigger.dev Pro is competitively priced when long-running tasks dominate the workload and run counts stay below the included tier ceiling.