Inngest Has a Free Event-Driven Functions Platform — Reliable Background Processing Made Simple

A SaaS needed to: send welcome email after signup, sync to CRM after 1 hour, check activation after 3 days. Building this with queues meant Redis, workers, monitoring. Inngest is event-driven functions. Send events, functions react. Built-in retries, scheduling, step functions - no queue infrastructure. What Inngest Offers for Free 25,000 Runs/Month - Free tier Step Functions - Multi-step workflows with automatic retries per step Event-Driven - Functions triggered by events Scheduling - Cron and delayed execution Concurrency - Control parallel execution Debouncing - Prevent duplicate processing Dashboard - Full observability Any Framework - Next.js, Express, Hono, SvelteKit Quick Start import { inngest } from ' ./client ' export const onUserSignup = inngest . createFunction ( { id : ' user-signup-flow ' }, { event : ' user/signup ' }, async ({ event , step }) => { await step . run ( ' send-welcome ' , async () => { await sendWelcomeEmail ( event . data . email ) }) await step . sleep (