# Pushary vs Trigger.dev

> Trigger.dev has a score of 74.8 (BB) against Pushary's 51.4 (D). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 55 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-05

Trigger.dev has a score of 74.8 (BB) against Pushary's 51.4 (D). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 55 points.

- Pushary: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #350 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushary.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pushary.json
- Trigger.dev: grade BB, 74.8/100, rank #46 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trigger-dev.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trigger-dev.json

## Which one, for what

Pick Pushary for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).

Pick Trigger.dev for reliability (+55), schema & documentation (+18), security & auth (+9), payments & pricing (+30), maintenance & community (+30), transparency & trust (+11).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Pushary | Trigger.dev | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 75 | Trigger.dev +55 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 91 | Trigger.dev +18 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 79 | Trigger.dev +3 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 73 | Trigger.dev +9 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 40 | Trigger.dev +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 90 | Trigger.dev +30 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 74 | Trigger.dev +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **74.8 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Pushary | Trigger.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | Model platform |
| Vendor | Pushary | Trigger.dev |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp` | `https://api.trigger.dev` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (skill, hooks and adapters) | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 6 | 31 |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Pushary/pushary` | `io.github.triggerdotdev/trigger.dev` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-01 |
| Popularity | none | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.6/5 (8) |

## Verdicts

**Pushary.** Six small tools with a detailed skill that says when to ask, when to notify and when to stay quiet. No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front.

**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.

## Before you call either

### Pushary

1. Read `answered`, `status` and `handoffAction` on every result, and never treat a timeout as approval
2. Expect `ask_user` to return at once with `answered: false` when the user's mode is notify-only or terminal-only
3. Poll `wait_for_answer` once (it waits at most 55 seconds), then follow the handoff instead of looping
4. Cancel a live question with `cancel_question` before asking the same thing in chat
5. Group open decisions into one `select` question, since each push interrupts the user

### Trigger.dev

1. Pass an explicit `timeout` to `wait.createToken()` and handle `ok: false` as a timeout
2. Use an idempotency key when creating the token so a retried step doesn't send the reviewer a second request
3. Give the browser the `publicAccessToken`, never the secret key, and don't call `token.url` from client code
4. Tag tokens with the user or task ID so pending approvals can be listed per reviewer
5. Start the MCP server with `--readonly` when the agent only needs to inspect runs

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