Trigger.dev Review 2026

Open-source background job platform for AI agents providing long-running task execution, retries, and scheduling with serverless deployment.

Trigger.dev is an open-source background job platform that has become increasingly popular for running AI agent workloads. It provides the infrastructure for executing long-running tasks — exactly the kind of work AI agents do — with built-in retries, scheduling, concurrency control, and observability, all deployable as serverless functions.

The platform solves a fundamental problem in agent deployment: AI agent tasks often take seconds to minutes (or even hours for complex workflows), far exceeding typical serverless function timeouts and HTTP request limits. Trigger.dev provides long-running execution environments with configurable timeouts up to hours, automatic retries with exponential backoff, and real-time status updates.