Is Inngest free for background jobs & cron?

Yes, Free costs nothing up to 50k runs.

How much does Inngest cost for background jobs & cron?

Free up to 50k executions a month; Pro is $99 a month with 1M executions, then tiered overage from $0.05 down to $0.015 per thousand. At list prices: job runs or steps 50k runs: $0/month (Free); job runs or steps 100k runs: $99/month (Pro); job runs or steps 5 million runs: $299/month (Pro).

Inngest pricing

How Inngest charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.

How it charges

Checked 2026-10-03 on www.inngest.com ↗ · USD, list prices

In short

Free up to 50k executions a month; Pro is $99 a month with 1M executions, then tiered overage from $0.05 down to $0.015 per thousand.

Free plan: Yes
Cheapest paid plan: $99/mo
Side project: $0/mo Free
Growing: $99/mo Pro
Scaling: $299/mo Pro

What the model leaves out

runs_k is read as executions = runs × (steps + 1), Inngest's own formula. Overage tiers come from the pricing calculator on the vendor's page: $0.00005 per execution from 1M to 5M, $0.000025 to 15M, $0.00002 to 50M, $0.000015 to 100M; above 100M is not published, so the model stops there. Inngest calls your own functions (serverless or workers you host), so compute_hours is not charged here — it is paid to your host. Business ($499/month, 10M executions) is left out: at 10M executions Pro costs about $424. Event ingestion beyond the included amount (Pro 5M, then $0.50 per 1M) is not modelled.

Before you commit

An execution is metered per function run and per step inside it: a function with 5 step.run() calls uses 6 executions.
On Free there is no overage: execution pauses once you hit the 50k quota and you must upgrade to resume.
Concurrency, seats, workers, events and span data each have their own limits and overage rates (e.g. Pro concurrency beyond 100 steps is $25 per 25).

Plan	Monthly fee	Job runs or steps per month
Free	Free	up to 50k runs
Pro	$99/mo	1 million runs includedthen $0.05 per 1,000 runs
↳ next tier		5 million runs includedthen $0.025 per 1,000 runs
↳ next tier		15 million runs includedthen $0.02 per 1,000 runs
↳ next tier		50 million runs includedthen $0.015 per 1,000 runsup to 100 million runs

What you'd pay

Job runs or steps per month100k runs

Usage only some alternatives charge for

Job compute time per month20 hours

Pro$99 plan$99/mo

The same usage elsewhere

Trigger.devFree$0saves $99

TemporalDeveloper (pay as you go)$5.50saves $94

UpstashPay as you go$1.00saves $98

Cost as you grow

Inngest Upstash Temporal Trigger.devx: job runs or steps per month (thousand runs), other usage scaled with it · cheapest usable plan at each point, list prices

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