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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Our take
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. Pick Novu if product teams who will stay on Free $0 (10k workflow runs, 20 workflows, no card) while they drop in Inbox, then buy Pro at $30/month when they need 30k runs, 7-day retention, and the email editor.
Best for
Inngest Event-driven durable functions you start at $0
Novu Workflow runs you start at $0 / 10k
Free 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
Novu $0 · /month. No card. 10,000 workflow runs/mo. All channels (email, in-app, SMS, chat, push). US + EU residency. Up to 20 workflows. 2 environments (Dev + Prod). Activity feed 24 hours. Up to 3 team members
Lowest paid
Inngest Sandbox compute $0.000011
Novu Pro $30/mo
Next step up
Inngest Pro execution overage $0.000050
Novu
Coding agent
Inngest Agent Evals
Novu Novu Connect
Watch out
Inngest Free pauses when 50k executions are gone
Novu Free keeps the activity feed for 24 hours
Last checked
Inngest 2026-10-22 · inngest.com/pricing
Novu 2026-10-22 · novu.co/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Novu if
product teams who will stay on Free $0 (10k workflow runs, 20 workflows, no card) while they drop in Inbox, then buy Pro at $30/month when they need 30k runs, 7-day retention, and the email editor.
Read the Novu page