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4 self-hosted Inngest alternatives

Inngest is a developer platform for building and running event-driven background jobs and durable workflows. It provides event/webhook triggers, scheduling, retries, step-based functions, long-running execution, and execution observability.

Alternatives to Inngest

Declarative, API-first orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows with a plugin ecosystem, UI editor, CI/CD and Terraform integration.

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27.9k stars2.9k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Portable, file-backed workflow orchestrator that defines DAGs in declarative YAML, runs anywhere as a single binary, and includes a modern Web UI for monitoring and control.

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3.8k stars317 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Developer-first platform for durable workflow automation and orchestration, with code-based workflows, triggers, integrations, and API-first execution.

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1.1k stars46 forksApache-2.0last commit Slowing down

On-premises IT task scheduler to centralize, schedule, and run scripts and commands across servers via SSH/WinRM, with workflows, logs, notifications, and an API.

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What replacing Inngest actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Automation & Workflow Builders (Low-code).

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