Skip to main content
OpenSourceAlternatives

Tag

background-jobs

6 catalogue entries use this topic; each Project's license policy is labeled separately.

Temporal

TemporalOpen

Open-source durable execution platform for reliable workflows

Stars23.7K
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that runs code to completion through failures, self-hosted with Docker or Kubernetes or on managed Temporal Cloud.

Alternative toInngest
Trigger.dev

Trigger.devOpen

Open-source background jobs and durable AI workflows for TypeScript

Stars16.5K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for building durable AI agents and background workflows in TypeScript, with retries, queues, and observability.

Alternative toInngest
Healthchecks

HealthchecksOpen

Open-source cron job monitoring with dead-man's-switch alerts

Stars10.4K
Commitjust now
LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Healthchecks is an open-source cron job monitor: each job gets a unique ping URL, and Healthchecks alerts you when a job misses its schedule. Hosted service covers 20 jobs free; the BSD-3-Clause codebase self-hosts on Python, Django, and PostgreSQL or MySQL.

Alternative toUptime KumaSentry
Hatchet

HatchetOpen

Postgres-native task queue for durable background workflows

Stars8,097
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Hatchet is a Postgres-native distributed task queue for background work and durable multi-step workflows, with retries, concurrency controls, and scheduled or event-driven execution through Python, TypeScript, Go, and Ruby SDKs. The MIT-licensed engine self-hosts with Docker or Lite mode, and Hatchet Cloud adds managed hosting on usage-based pricing.

Alternative ton8n
Inngest

Inngest

Durable step functions for event-driven apps and AI agents

Stars5,932
Commitjust now
LicenseSSPL-1.0 (source-available)

Inngest is a durable execution platform for event-driven apps: SDK step functions with checkpoints, retries, and waits run on serverless or your own servers.

Alternative toHatchet
Workbench

WorkbenchOpen

Open-source BullMQ dashboard for modern Node apps

Stars451
Commit3mo ago
LicenseMIT

Workbench is an open-source dashboard for BullMQ queues in Node.js and Bun applications. It mounts as a route inside thirteen supported frameworks or runs standalone via Docker, showing jobs, flows, schedulers, and per-queue metrics with search, tags, and a dark-mode interface. The MIT-licensed project ships a migration guide from bull-board, an MCP server for AI-assisted operations, and a macOS app, and it observes rather than replaces the operator's own BullMQ workers.

Alternative toHatchet