Hatchet

by Hatchet Inc.

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#5 in Best Process Orchestration Platforms 2026 #8 in Best Durable Workflow Engines for Production in 2026

Open-source distributed task queue and workflow engine for Python, TypeScript, and Go services. Hatchet is an open-source distributed task queue from Hatchet Inc., a New York Y Combinator W24 startup founded in 2023.

Performance Scores

7.3

2 rankings evaluated

Score range: 7.0 – 7.6

Key Facts

Pricing

Pricing facts about Hatchet
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Hatchet pricing (July 2026)Hatchet pricing (as of September 2026): the cloud plan is usage-based Pay-as-you-go, with a no-card free tier (2,000 task runs/day, 2,000 events/day, 3 users, 1 tenant, 1-day retention, 500MB active storage) and a card-on-file tier (1M runs and 1M events per month included, then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events; 50 users included then $10/user; 10 tenants; 7-day retention; 10GB active storage included then $0.03/GB-hr), plus a Custom ('Let's talk') tier for high-volume/enterprise use with volume discounts, 90+ day retention, dedicated capacity, multi-region, SSO, RBAC, audit logs and a HIPAA BAA. The previously published named 'Team' ($500/mo) and 'Scale' ($1,000/mo) flat-fee tiers are no longer on the vendor's pricing page. Self-hosting remains free and open source, confirmed via the GitHub repository as MIT-licensed (not Apache-2.0 as previously recorded).Sep 2026Hatchet Pricing
Starter pricingFree Developer tier with $10 per 1M task runs (first 100,000 runs free); paid plans from $500/month (Team)Jul 2026Hatchet pricing page

Company

Company facts about Hatchet
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Founded2023May 2026Y Combinator directory
HeadquartersNew York, NYJul 2026Y Combinator company profile
Employees1-10May 2026Hatchet LinkedIn
LicenseMITJul 2026Hatchet GitHub LICENSE file

Community

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GitHub stars7,600+Jul 2026GitHub API

Features

Features facts about Hatchet
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SDKsPython, TypeScript, Go, RubyJul 2026Hatchet documentation
DeploymentHatchet Cloud (managed) and self-hosted PostgresMay 2026Hatchet self-host docs

Strengths

  • ●PostgreSQL is the only required datastore: no Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch
  • ●MIT across the whole repository, with no proprietary enterprise directory
  • ●Python, TypeScript and Go SDKs with durable workflow semantics
  • ●Managed cloud alongside a lightweight self-hosted deployment
  • ●Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry trace export and worker health checks are documented (docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/prometheus-metrics, read 29 September 2026)
  • ●Postgres-backed (no Cassandra dependency)
  • ●Open-source with managed cloud option
  • ●Multi-language SDKs (Python, TS, Go)
  • ●Lightweight self-hosting story

Limitations

  • ●Shorter production track record than Temporal, Airflow or Camunda
  • ●8,023 stars and 89 contributors as of 29 September 2026: fewer stars than Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, n8n, Windmill and Activepieces
  • ●The published benchmark ran on engine v0.55.26, while the current release is v0.107.0 (15 September 2026), so its 2,000 events per second may not describe current behaviour (docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/benchmarking, read 29 September 2026)
  • ●No connector catalogue; every integration is application code
  • ●Newer project with smaller production track record
  • ●Feature parity with Temporal still maturing
  • ●Smaller integration ecosystem

Based on evaluations in 2 rankings: Best Process Orchestration Platforms 2026, Best Durable Workflow Engines for Production in 2026

Pricing

Hatchet offers multiple products and plan tiers whose usage allowances vary by plan; the vendor's pricing page is the authoritative reference for current plans and limits.

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About Hatchet

Hatchet is an open-source distributed task queue from Hatchet Inc., a New York Y Combinator W24 startup founded in 2023. MIT-licensed, Postgres-backed, with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, and Go. 5,500+ GitHub stars as of 2026. Cloud and self-hosted.

Hatchet is an open-source distributed task queue and workflow engine built by Hatchet Inc., a New York infrastructure startup founded in 2023 and a Y Combinator W24 alumnus. The product targets backend teams running Python, TypeScript, or Go services who need durable task execution, fan-out, retries, and event-driven triggers without operating Celery, Redis, or RabbitMQ themselves.

Hatchet is licensed under Apache 2.0 and runs on Postgres rather than Redis or Kafka. The Postgres-backed design simplifies operations because most teams already operate Postgres in production. Workers connect to a Hatchet engine over gRPC and pull tasks; the engine handles scheduling, retries with exponential backoff, concurrency limits per key, and rate limiting. Workflows are defined in code using the SDK and can express step dependencies, parallel fan-out, and child workflow patterns.

Hatchet is offered both as a managed Hatchet Cloud product and a self-hosted Apache 2.0 release. As of May 2026 the public GitHub repository has more than 5,500 stars. Hatchet Cloud pricing starts with a free Developer tier (first 100,000 task runs free, then $10 per 1M runs); paid plans start at $500/month (Team), with higher tiers quote-based.

The platform integrates with most Python, TypeScript, and Go web frameworks (FastAPI, Django, Express, Fastify, Gin) and with deployment platforms including Render, Fly.io, AWS, GCP, and Railway. It is positioned for teams who want a Temporal-style durable execution model on a Postgres-only stack.

Integrations (8)

Django native
Express native
FastAPI native
Fastify native
Fly.io third-party
GitHub webhook
Postgres native
Render third-party

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