Long-running AI jobs without the infrastructure.
Trigger.dev runs background tasks written in plain TypeScript — no timeouts\, automatic retries\, full observability — which is exactly what long AI workflows need and serverless functions cannot provide.
Serverless timeouts are a genuine wall for AI work: a multi-step agent run routinely exceeds them. Removing that limit while keeping the code ordinary TypeScript is the appeal\, and it is open source so you can self-host.
Quick Information
Platform
Web
Pricing
Free open source + usage-based cloud
API
Available
Category
Automation
Pros and Cons
Pros
- No timeout limits on tasks
- Plain TypeScript\, not a DSL
- Open source and self-hostable
- Automatic retries and observability
- Good fit for multi-step agent runs
Cons
- TypeScript only
- Self-hosting needs infrastructure
- Cloud costs scale with compute
- Smaller than general automation platforms