Pick DBOS if
backend teams who will stay on OSS Transact $0 (bring your own Postgres) while they annotate a first workflow, then buy Pro at $99/month when they want Conductor for 3 apps and 1M checkpoints.
Read the DBOS pageDBOS vs Inngest
Our take
Pick DBOS if backend teams who will stay on OSS Transact $0 (bring your own Postgres) while they annotate a first workflow, then buy Pro at $99/month when they want Conductor for 3 apps and 1M checkpoints. Pick Inngest if teams who will stay on Free $0 (50k executions, no card) while they wrap a first agent, then buy Pro at $99/month when they need 1M executions and 7-day traces.
Best for
DBOS Workflows that live in Postgres you start at $0 OSS, then $99 Pro
Inngest Event-driven durable functions you start at $0
Free plan
DBOS $0 · typeScript, Python, Go, Java (Rust library in preview). Run on any Linux / macOS / Windows. You own the Postgres. No Conductor console until a paid plan
Inngest $0 · /month. No card. 5 seats. 50k executions/mo. 5 concurrent steps. 3 workers. 500k events. 100k queue depth. 50 realtime connections. 256 KiB event size. 500 MB span data. 10K scores. 24-hour traces. When the free quota is gone, execution pauses until you upgrade
Lowest paid
DBOS Pro $99/mo
Inngest Sandbox compute $0.000011
Next step up
DBOS
Inngest Pro execution overage $0.000050
Coding agent
DBOS
Inngest Agent Evals
Watch out
DBOS OSS has no Conductor
Inngest Free pauses when 50k executions are gone
Last checked
DBOS 2026-10-22 · dbos.dev/pricing
Inngest 2026-10-22 · inngest.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Inngest if
teams who will stay on Free $0 (50k executions, no card) while they wrap a first agent, then buy Pro at $99/month when they need 1M executions and 7-day traces.
Read the Inngest page