Trigger.dev

Trigger.dev Overview

Trigger.dev is a powerful, open-source platform designed for developers to build and deploy fully-managed AI agents and long-running workflows using TypeScript. It solves the common pain points of serverless environments by providing a reliable infrastructure for tasks that would typically hit timeouts. Whether you are building autonomous agents, processing media, or managing complex email sequences, Trigger.dev offers the durable execution and elastic scaling needed for production-grade AI applications.

Trigger.dev Key Features

• AI Agent Framework: Build and deploy invincible AI agents that support tool calling, prompt chaining, and human-in-the-loop functionality for complex, open-ended tasks.
• Realtime Tracing & Streams: Connect your frontend directly to your tasks to show run statuses or stream LLM responses from providers like Anthropic and OpenAI in real-time.
• Durable Workflows & Queues: Execute long-running tasks with automatic retries and sophisticated concurrency controls to managed how many tasks run at once without managing servers.
• Runtime Freedom: Enjoy extensive flexibility with support for Node.js, Bun, and Python, along with extensions for Puppeteer browser automation, Prisma database migrations, and FFmpeg video processing.

With its focus on developer experience, Trigger.dev includes advanced observability, versioned deployments, and a generous pay-as-you-use model that ensures you only pay when your code is actually executing.