Inngest vs Svix (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Inngest and Svix share a 2.4 GPA, both have a free plan, and Svix starts cheaper, at $20 a month against $99 a month.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Inngest grades higher on features. Svix grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Inngest
Durable execution for background jobs, event-driven apps and agents
Which one is for you
Pick Inngest if
- Fits if you are a developer who needs reliable background jobs
- Works for a small team that can stay inside 50k executions
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you do not write code, as there is no drag-and-drop builder
- Tight if you stay free: 5 concurrent steps and 24 hours of traces
- Watch out: Pro and Business bill extra executions, steps, workers and span data
- Watch out: HIPAA is an add-on on Pro and Business, and sandboxes in open beta are billed per second
Pick Svix if
- Fits if you run a SaaS and need to send webhooks to customers
- Works for small teams starting on the free 50k messages
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you only receive webhooks, since it is for sending
- Pricey if you need static IPs or an unbranded portal, which need Professional at $490
- Watch out: SSO, HIPAA and a BAA are Enterprise with custom pricing
- Tight if you pass 50k messages, because the page doesn't state overage billing
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAInngestFair | 2.4GPASvixFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPro is $99 a month for 15 seats, which is about $20 a head for five people, near the middle of automation ($19). Extra executions cost $50 per 1M. | CBasic starts at $20 a month, near the category's middle of $19.99; Professional is $490. The page doesn't say how messages beyond the first 50k are billed. |
| Free plan and trial | BFree plan with no card: 5 seats, 50k executions, 500k events a month and 24 hours of traces. One small project can live on it. | BFree: 50k messages a month at 50 messages per second with 7-day retention. |
| Features | BDurable step functions, queues, events, observability and AI agent tooling. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core work. | COutbound webhooks and a customer portal. It does that one job fully, and it's a smaller job than general automation. |
| Ease of use | DWorkflows are written in code with an SDK, so it needs a developer. | CNo store rating on record. You add the SDK to your product, so it takes a developer. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb service with open-source SDKs and a Datadog integration. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb dashboard with AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake and OpenTelemetry connections. |
| Best for | background jobs written in code | sending webhooks from your own product |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Inngest and Svix. How we grade
Price against what you get
Inngest starts at $99 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Svix starts at $20 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Svix starts $79 a month lower. Of the other automation tools on the chart, 17 score higher than Inngest for less, and 11 score higher than Svix for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Inngest is open source, according to its own site.
- Inngest also covers AI agents.
At a glance
| Inngest | Svix | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $99 per month (Pro), billing basis not stated | $20 per month and up |
| Free plan | 5 seats, 50k executions, 5 concurrent steps and 500k events a month, with 24 hours of trace history. No credit card required. | $0 a month for up to 50k messages, 50 messages per second and 7-day payload retention. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Inngest Inc. | Svix Inc. |
| Price read from | inngest.com | svix.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Inngest
- Workflows are written in code using an SDK; there is no drag-and-drop builder.
- Pro and Business prices are shown as a base with usage on top: extra executions, concurrent steps, workers and span data are billed beyond the included amounts.
- HIPAA support is an add-on on Pro and Business, and included only on Enterprise.
- Sandboxes are in open beta and are billed per second: $0.000011 for a vCPU and $0.000003 for 1 GB of memory.
Svix
- Free stops at 50k messages a month and 7 days of payload retention.
- Static source IPs, unbranded portal and advanced RBAC need Professional at $490 a month and up.
- SSO, HIPAA and a BAA are Enterprise features with custom pricing.
- The pricing page does not state how messages beyond the included 50k are billed.
Key features
Inngest
- Durable step functions
- Functions are split into steps that are retried and resumed on failure. A single run can last up to 30 days on Free, 90 on Pro and 366 on Business, including sleeps and waits.
- Queues and flow control
- Concurrency and queue depth are managed for you. Concurrent steps start at 5 on Free and 100 on Pro, with more sold in packs of 25 for $25.
- Events and webhooks
- Functions start from events sent from your app or other sources. Free allows 500k events a month and 256 KiB per event; paid plans allow 3 MiB.
- Observability
- Every function run is traced, with metrics and span data. Trace history is 24 hours on Free, 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Business and 90 days on Enterprise.
- AI agents and sandboxes
- Inngest has an AgentKit project and a sandbox product, in open beta, billed per second for vCPU and memory. Agent evaluation scores are metered by plan.
- Open source SDKs
- The server and SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go and Kotlin are published on GitHub, and you can develop locally before moving to Cloud.
Svix
- Webhook sending
- Svix Dispatch delivers a product's webhooks to its customers' endpoints with retries and signing. Svix Ingest covers receiving webhooks.
- Embeddable portal
- An application portal can be embedded in a customer dashboard so webhook consumers manage subscriptions and monitor delivery themselves.
- Usage-based counting
- Only attempted messages count toward usage. Messages filtered out by Svix, such as when no endpoints exist, and retries are free.
- Destinations
- Higher plans add object storage endpoints (AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage). Enterprise lists Snowflake and OpenTelemetry log streaming.
- Testing tools
- Svix Play is a separate tool for testing webhooks, and the site links an API reference, SDKs and a Terraform provider.
Plans
Inngest
Free$0
5 seats, 50k executions, 5 concurrent steps, 3 workers and 500k events a month, with 24 hours of trace history.
Pro$99
per month and up, includes 1M executions
15 seats ($10 per extra), 100 concurrent steps, 20 workers, 5M+ events and 7 days of traces. Extra executions $50 per 1M.
Business$499
per month and up, includes 10M executions
30 seats ($10 per extra), 500 concurrent steps, 100 workers, 50M+ events and 14 days of traces. Extra executions $25 per 1M.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom limits, 90 days of trace history, SAML, RBAC, audit trails, HIPAA included and a dedicated Slack channel.
Svix
Free$0
Up to 50k messages a month, 50 messages per second, 7-day retention, embeddable webhooks UI, Dispatch, Stream and Ingest.
Basic$20
per month and up
99.9% uptime SLA, 200 messages per second, 30-day retention, 50k free messages a month, white label headers.
Professional$490
per month and up
99.99% SLA, 800 messages per second, 90-day retention, unbranded portal, static source IPs and advanced RBAC. 30-day trial.
EnterpriseCustom
99.999% SLA, 24/7 on-call engineer, SSO, mTLS and OAuth, HIPAA and BAA, on-prem options and volume discounts.
Ways to pay less
Inngest
No public discounts listed.
Svix
- Startups
Special startup plans
The pricing page says Svix has special plans for early-stage startups and links a Svix for startups page for details.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Inngest or Svix?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Svix is cheaper to start with: $20 a month, against $99 a month for Inngest. Inngest starts at $99 per month (Pro), billing basis not stated, and Svix starts at $20 per month and up.
Which has a free plan, Inngest or Svix?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Inngest and Svix have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.