inngest/inngest
The leading workflow orchestration platform. Run stateful step functions and AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 3
- age_days: 1913
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 142
Adoption not part of the score
5766 stars · 343 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Inngest is an event-driven durable execution platform for running stateful step functions and AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge. It replaces queues, state management, and scheduling with SDKs in TypeScript, Python, and Go, plus a CLI and local Dev Server, and can be self-hosted or used via the Inngest Cloud platform.
Use cases
- run reliable background jobs without managing queues or workers
- build durable multi-step workflows that retry and resume after failures
- orchestrate AI agent and RAG pipelines with checkpointed steps
- schedule cron and one-off delayed functions
- control concurrency, throttling, debouncing, and rate limiting per user or tenant
- build email drip campaigns triggered by user behavior
- run human-in-the-loop workflows that pause and resume
- evaluate AI agent runs in production with scoring and traces
When to choose
- you need fault-tolerant, resumable workflows without deploying separate worker infrastructure
- you want event-driven background jobs with built-in retries, scheduling, and flow control
- you are building AI agents that must survive crashes and long waits
- you want a local dev server with production parity and multi-language SDKs
When to avoid
- you only need simple one-shot cron jobs with no state or retries
- you want a fully self-contained open-source stack with no cloud dependency, since key features like Agent Evals and scoring rely on the Inngest Platform
- your code cannot expose an HTTPS endpoint for function invocation
- you need a license-permissive dependency, as the license is a custom non-standard one
Facets
service · maturity active
workflow-automation scheduling message-queue webhook api-framework cli self-hosted agent-framework backend developer-tools artificial-intelligence microservices web-development go cross-platform self-hosted serverless cli cloud durable-execution workflow-engine event-driven background-jobs step-functions flow-control retries dev-server automation ai-agents docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/inngest/inngest · fetched 2026-08-28 · b019e5597222
- homepage: https://www.inngest.com/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 68d9da178ef0
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/examples · fetched 2026-08-29 · 09066219efa9
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/patterns · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3b590580c1b9
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/getting-started/nextjs-quick-start · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5f11fa1dfe32
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/getting-started/python-quick-start · fetched 2026-08-29 · 803398e3c493
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/learn/how-functions-are-executed · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4afeba63f1c1
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/architecture · fetched 2026-08-29 · bab14bd28b95
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/learn/durable-agents · fetched 2026-08-29 · e5fb22a10d2e
- site_page: https://www.inngest.com/docs/learn/agent-evals · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0d4ce94c2cef
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| inngest/inngest | main | 95 |
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