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 pageInngest vs Restate
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 Restate if teams who will stay on the BSL self-host at $0 while they open a first Invocation journal, then talk to Restate about Cloud because the public pricing page does not print a Cloud tile.
Best for
Inngest Event-driven durable functions you start at $0
Restate Workflows and agents that resume after a crash you start at $0 on your host
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
Restate $0 · you run restate-server and your handlers. Confirmed by the repo LICENSE (“Business Source License 1.1”). You may not offer a public Restate platform to third parties under that grant
Lowest paid
Inngest Sandbox compute $0.000011
Restate Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Inngest Pro execution overage $0.000050
Restate
Coding agent
Inngest Agent Evals
Restate
Runs where
Inngest
Restate Hosted
Watch out
Inngest Free pauses when 50k executions are gone
Restate $0 is the license, not the VM
Last checked
Inngest 2026-10-22 · inngest.com/pricing
Restate 2026-10-23 · restate.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Restate if
teams who will stay on the BSL self-host at $0 while they open a first Invocation journal, then talk to Restate about Cloud because the public pricing page does not print a Cloud tile.
Read the Restate page