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 Temporal if backend teams who will burn the $150 / 90-day Cloud credits (no base fee) while they reset a first getAddressFromIP run, then land on Pay-As-You-Go from $50 per million actions — or self-host OSS at $0 when they will run the
Best for
Inngest Event-driven durable functions you start at $0
Temporal A workflow you start on $150 credits
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
Temporal $0 · $150 for 90 days. No base monthly fee. Start for free
Lowest paid
Inngest Sandbox compute $0.000011
Temporal Pay-As-You-Go $50
Next step up
Inngest Pro execution overage $0.000050
Temporal Business support add-on $500/mo
Coding agent
Inngest Agent Evals
Temporal
Watch out
Inngest Free pauses when 50k executions are gone
Temporal $50 / million actions is the starting Cloud meter
Last checked
Inngest 2026-10-22 · inngest.com/pricing
Temporal 2026-10-22 · temporal.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Temporal if
backend teams who will burn the $150 / 90-day Cloud credits (no base fee) while they reset a first getAddressFromIP run, then land on Pay-As-You-Go from $50 per million actions — or self-host OSS at $0 when they will run the server.
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