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.
Read the Hatchet pageHatchet vs Windmill
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 Windmill if platform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
Hatchet
durable task queue you attach workers to
Best for
Hatchet Tasks and events metered in runs
Windmill Scripts → endpoints / workflows / UIs you can self-host
Free plan
Hatchet $0 · 2,000 task runs/day and 2,000 events/day. 10 workers. 3 users. 500 MB active storage. Discord support
Windmill $0 · /month. Unlimited executions. 3 workspaces. Max 50 users. 10 SSO users. 4 groups. 10 GiB object storage. 100 email triggers/day. 100 app guests / 30 days. Discord support
Lowest paid
Hatchet Not published by the vendor
Windmill Enterprise Edition $20/mo
Next step up
Hatchet
Windmill Compute units $100/mo
Runs where
Hatchet
Windmill Local; you host it
Watch out
Hatchet No-card is 2,000 runs/day
Windmill Community caps SSO at 10 and workspaces at 3
Last checked
Hatchet 2026-10-22 · hatchet.run/pricing
Windmill 2026-10-22 · windmill.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Windmill if
platform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
Read the Windmill page