Inngest review
A workflow execution platform for serverless teams, not a general-purpose hosting runtime.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Inngest is an event-driven durable execution platform for developers building background jobs, scheduled tasks, workflows, and AI applications. Functions written in TypeScript, Python, or Go run on a customer's serverless, container, or traditional compute, while Inngest handles execution state, retries, scheduling, and coordination. That makes it a fit for teams connecting workflows across hosting providers, rather than teams seeking a conventional hosted serverless runtime.
The platform's workflow controls are its central distinction. Functions can be triggered by events, cron schedules, or webhooks, and step-level retries and memoization help preserve progress through execution. Concurrency controls, throttling, prioritization, batching, rate limiting, and queueing address coordination needs without requiring separate worker or queue infrastructure. Observability includes metrics, traces, logs, and alerts. HTTP serving supports serverless environments, while persistent worker connections over WebSockets support worker-style deployments. Integrations include Vercel, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare Pages, Render, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run Functions, Firebase Cloud Functions, and Supabase Edge Functions.
Pricing is freemium. Hobby costs $0 per month and includes 50k executions, 5 concurrent steps, 500 MB of span data, and 500k events ingested per month. Pro costs $99 per month and includes 1M executions, 100 concurrent steps, 5 GB of span data, and 7-day trace retention. Enterprise offers custom executions and concurrency, advanced tracing, metrics, and alerts, plus SAML, RBAC, audit trails, and a dedicated Slack channel. Choose Inngest when durable workflow execution and controls across your own compute matter; teams wanting a conventional hosted serverless runtime should look elsewhere.
Inngest pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Persists function state with step-level retries and memoization
- Coordinates concurrency, throttling, prioritization, batching, and rate limits
- Connects with Vercel, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Pages, and other platforms
- Where it doesn't
- Runs functions on your compute rather than providing a hosted runtime
- Pro starts at $99 per month
- Hobby includes 50k executions per month and 5 concurrent steps
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