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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trigger-dev.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trigger-dev.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Inngest for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\nPick Trigger.dev for reliability (+18), security \u0026 auth (+13), transparency \u0026 trust (+18).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Inngest | Trigger.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 75 | Trigger.dev +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 91 | Trigger.dev +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 79 | Trigger.dev +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 73 | Trigger.dev +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 90 | Trigger.dev +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 74 | Trigger.dev +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.3 · B** | **74.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Inngest | Trigger.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Inngest | Trigger.dev |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://inn.gs/e/` | `https://api.trigger.dev` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | SSPL with delayed Apache-2.0 (server), Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 31 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.triggerdotdev/trigger.dev` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.6/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Inngest.** Waits are durable and cost nothing while suspended, with runs up to 30 days on Free and 366 on Business. No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code.\n\n**Trigger.dev.** Tokens complete from a backend, a pre-signed callback URL or the browser with a token scoped to one waitpoint. 10-minute default timeout on tokens.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Inngest\n\n1. Use `step.waitForSignal()` when one run waits for one answer, and `waitForEvent` only when one answer resumes many runs\n2. Register the wait before you send the approval request, or check the external state first, since early events are missed\n3. Use a unique approval ID per tool call and `match` on it, so parallel approvals resolve independently\n4. Treat `null` or `undefined` as a timeout and decide on purpose whether that rejects, approves or escalates\n5. Set an event `id` when sending the answer, so a retried send is dropped within 24 hours\n\n### Trigger.dev\n\n1. Pass an explicit `timeout` to `wait.createToken()` and handle `ok: false` as a timeout\n2. 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