Pick Hatchet if
teams who will stay on the $0 free million runs (no card) while a worker handles staging, then put a card on file when they need the full 1M/mo envelope and 7-day retention.
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Our take
Pick Hatchet if teams who will stay on the $0 free million runs (no card) while a worker handles staging, then put a card on file when they need the full 1M/mo envelope and 7-day retention. 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
Hatchet Tasks and events metered in runs
Inngest Event-driven durable functions you start at $0
Free plan
Hatchet $0 · 2,000 task runs/day and 2,000 events/day. 10 workers. 3 users. 500 MB active storage. Discord support
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
Hatchet Not published by the vendor
Inngest Sandbox compute $0.000011
Next step up
Hatchet
Inngest Pro execution overage $0.000050
Coding agent
Hatchet
Inngest Agent Evals
Watch out
Hatchet No-card is 2,000 runs/day
Inngest Free pauses when 50k executions are gone
Last checked
Hatchet 2026-10-22 · hatchet.run/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.
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