How much does Trigger.dev cost in 2026?
Quick Answer: Trigger.dev Cloud pricing as of July 2026: a Free tier (1 production environment, 14-day history), Hobby at $10/month, Pro at $50/month (with $50 of included credits), and custom Enterprise, plus free self-hosting under Apache-2.0 (Docker, Postgres, Redis-compatible queue). Billing is a plan fee plus credit-metered usage — run invocation at about $0.000025/run plus per-second compute by machine size. Trigger.dev v3 isolates each run in a fresh container, which trades 1-3 seconds of cold-start for strong isolation on long-running tasks.
Trigger.dev uses a plan fee plus credit-metered usage on Cloud, and is free under Apache-2.0 for self-hosting. As of July 2026, the published tiers are:
Published tiers (verified July 2026)
- Free: 1 production environment, 14-day run history, run allowance + credits
- Hobby: $10/month + credit-metered usage
- Pro: $50/month with $50 of included credits, concurrency controls, priority support
- Enterprise: quote-based, dedicated infrastructure, SSO, SOC 2 attestation
- Self-hosted (open source): Apache-2.0, no run quota, requires Docker + Postgres + a Redis-compatible queue
The 2026 lineup added a Hobby tier at $10/month between Free and Pro. Billing is a plan fee plus credit-metered usage — run invocation at ~$0.000025/run plus per-second compute by machine size.
Cold-start note
Trigger.dev v3 isolates each run in a fresh Node.js container, adding 1-3 seconds of cold-start versus a hot serverless model — an advantage for occasional long-running tasks, a drawback for high-throughput low-latency jobs (where Inngest's model may fit better).
How Trigger.dev compares (250,000 runs/month)
| Tool | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Trigger.dev Pro | $50 + usage |
| Inngest Pro | from $99 |
| Hatchet Team | $500 |
| Self-hosted | ~$80-$150 infra |
Editor's Note: Trigger.dev's appeal is fully open-source (Apache-2.0) durable background jobs with clean task authoring and first-class self-host, which suits teams that want to avoid vendor lock-in. Re-checked July 2026: it added a $10 Hobby tier below Pro ($50 with $50 credits), and billing is now a plan fee plus credit-metered usage (run + per-second compute) — so model your run count and machine sizes, and lean on the free Apache-2.0 self-host if run volume climbs past the included tiers. — Rafal Fila, ShadowGen