Inngest is a developer platform for building reliable background jobs, scheduled functions, and event-driven workflows — including AI agent workflows — without standing up and managing queues, state stores, or schedulers by hand. Founded in 2021 in San Francisco by Tony Holdstock-Brown and Dan Farrelly, with Jack Williams as a founding engineer, the company has raised more than $6 million in seed funding backed by GGV Capital and Afore Capital.
Developers write steps directly in their existing codebase; Inngest turns those steps into durable functions with automatic retries, state persistence, and full observability, running on serverless platforms, dedicated servers, or at the edge. The platform is open core, so teams can run it locally on a laptop during development or on Inngest Cloud in production, and it markets itself as a direct alternative to Temporal for teams that want durable execution without operating a separate workflow engine.
Inngest targets engineering teams building AI agents, background-job pipelines, or multi-step workflows who want reliability guarantees without infrastructure overhead. The Hobby plan is free with no credit card required, covering 50,000 monthly executions; the Pro plan starts at $99/month for 1M+ executions and 100+ concurrent executions, and Enterprise pricing is quoted for larger allocations with SAML and RBAC.
