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What Trigger.dev is
Trigger.dev runs long-running background jobs written in your own codebase, without you managing the servers they run on. It is for the work that does not fit in a web request: sending an email campaign, processing video, running a compute-heavy job, or anything that takes longer than a serverless function will allow. The central claim is that tasks have no timeouts. A job can run indefinitely, and a Checkpoint-Resume system means a long task can be suspended and picked up again rather than restarted from the beginning. Every task can be retried on failure, which is the part most homegrown queue setups get wrong. Concurrency is controlled with custom rules, so one noisy job cannot starve the rest, and tasks can be triggered in batches. Because tasks are code in your repository, they are version-controlled like the rest of it. They can be run and tested locally before anything is deployed, then deployed to staging or production, across multiple regions including AWS US West in Oregon. Python scripts can be executed alongside the JavaScript. Human-in-the-loop workflows are supported for jobs that need somebody to approve a step partway through. Operationally it provides queues, logging, tracing and observability, so a failed run can be traced rather than guessed at, and there is a CLI command that reports on health. The dashboard can be customised, including the side menu, and several profiles can be kept for managing more than one account. Plans are drawn on concurrent runs rather than task counts. Free allows 20 concurrent runs, Hobby 50, and Pro 200 with the option to buy additional bundles; Enterprise is custom priced with a configurable ceiling. Pro adds dedicated Slack support. Every plan is limited to 1,500 API requests per minute. Trigger.dev can also be self-hosted, which matters for teams whose jobs touch data that cannot leave their own infrastructure.
