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Trigger.dev
Open-source background jobs with durable, resumable execution.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep it — Anthropic has not replaced it
Anthropic's version overlaps, but does not finish the automation job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Agent frameworks promise orchestration but not durability. Anthropic, February 1, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Inngest and Temporal.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- February 1, 2025
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
Long AI tasks broke normal serverless: a five-minute agent run times out, and retrying from the start burns real money. Trigger.dev's durable execution — checkpoint, resume, no timeouts — became the standard answer, which is why it grew alongside the agent wave rather than against it.
Escape hatches
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Inngest Event-driven equivalent.
inngest.com open_in_new T 
Temporal Heavier, battle-tested.
temporal.io open_in_new2 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.