Svix vs Trigger.dev (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Svix grades higher than Trigger.dev: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Svix grades higher on the free plan and ease of use. Trigger.dev grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on features and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Trigger.dev
Open-source platform for long-running background tasks and AI agents
Which one is for you
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
Pick Trigger.dev if
- Fits if you write TypeScript and need jobs that run for minutes or days
- Works for developers building AI agents that must survive crashes
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a visual builder, as everything is code in your own project
- Tight if you stay free: $5 of credits a month, 10 schedules and 1 day of logs, and tasks stop when the credits are gone
- Pricey if you need more runs, since extra concurrency is $10 a month per 50 and Pro seats beyond 25 are $20 each
- Watch out: compute is billed per second by machine size plus $0.25 per 10,000 runs, so the bill is hard to predict
- Watch out: a HIPAA BAA is a $500 a month add-on
How we grade them
| 2.4GPASvixFair | 2.2GPATrigger.devFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | BHobby is $10 a month with $10 of usage credits, which is the edge of the cheapest quarter ($10) in this category. Compute is billed per second on top, and a signed HIPAA BAA is $500 a month extra. |
| Free plan and trial | BFree: 50k messages a month at 50 messages per second with 7-day retention. | CA free plan with $5 of monthly credits, 20 concurrent runs, 5 team members and 1 day of log retention. When the credits run out, tasks stop. |
| Features | COutbound webhooks and a customer portal. It does that one job fully, and it's a smaller job than general automation. | CTasks with no time limit, schedules, queues, webhooks, a dashboard and open-source self-hosting. There's no visual workflow builder, and schedules are capped from 10 on Free to 1,000 on Pro. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You add the SDK to your product, so it takes a developer. | DNo store rating on record. Tasks are TypeScript in your own codebase, and self-hosting is an option, so you need to be a developer to start. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb dashboard with AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake and OpenTelemetry connections. | BWeb dashboard, with an API, webhooks, streaming to a frontend through Realtime and a self-hosting guide. |
| Best for | sending webhooks from your own product | running long background jobs in code |
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: Svix and Trigger.dev. How we grade
Price against what you get
Svix starts at $20 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Trigger.dev starts at $10 a month and scores 2.0.
Svix scores higher, and starts $10 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other automation tools on the chart, 11 score higher than Svix for less, and 10 score higher than Trigger.dev 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
- Trigger.dev is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Trigger.dev also covers AI agents.
At a glance
| Svix | Trigger.dev | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $20 per month and up | $10 per month (Hobby), with $10 of usage credits included |
| Free plan | $0 a month for up to 50k messages, 50 messages per second and 7-day payload retention. | $5 of monthly credits, 20 concurrent runs, 5 team members, 10 schedules, 1 day of log retention and community support. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Svix Inc. | API Hero Ltd. |
| Price read from | svix.com | trigger.dev |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Trigger.dev
- Tasks are written in TypeScript in your own codebase; there is no visual workflow builder.
- Compute is billed per second by machine size, plus $0.25 per 10,000 runs; a Small 1x machine costs $0.0000338 a second.
- A signed HIPAA BAA is a $500 a month add-on on the Hobby and Pro plans.
- The Free plan stops running tasks once its $5 of monthly credits is used up.
Key features
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.
Trigger.dev
- Tasks with no maximum duration
- Tasks are code that run on managed workers with no set time limit, so a single run can last minutes, days or longer. Waiting on a subtask or a long delay does not count toward compute.
- AI agents and chat
- Agent runs can last minutes or hours and survive crashes. Responses and tool calls can be streamed to a frontend through Realtime, and it works with the Vercel AI SDK.
- Schedules and webhooks
- Cron-style scheduled tasks and verified webhooks start runs. Schedules are capped by plan, from 10 on Free to 1,000 on Pro.
- Concurrency and queues
- Queues control how many runs execute at once. Limits only count while code is running, and extra concurrency on Pro is sold in bundles of 50 for $10 a month.
- Self-hosting
- The platform is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and the vendor publishes a self-hosting guide for running it on your own infrastructure.
- Observability
- Runs are monitored and traced in a dashboard, with billing alerts at set share-of-budget levels. Log retention runs from 1 day on Free to 30 days on Pro.
Plans
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.
Trigger.dev
Free$0
$5 monthly credits, 20 concurrent runs, 5 team members, 10 schedules and 1 day of log retention.
Hobby$10
per month, with $10 of usage credits included
50 concurrent runs, 5 team members, 100 schedules, 7 days of log retention and 3 alert destinations.
Pro$50
per month, with $50 of usage credits included
200+ concurrent runs, 25+ team members ($20 per extra seat), 1,000+ schedules, 30 days of logs and Slack support.
EnterpriseCustom
Everything in Pro plus custom log retention, priority support, role-based access control, SSO and SOC 2 and pen-test reports.
Ways to pay less
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.
Trigger.dev
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Svix or Trigger.dev?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Trigger.dev is cheaper to start with: $10 a month, against $20 a month for Svix. Svix starts at $20 per month and up, and Trigger.dev starts at $10 per month (Hobby), with $10 of usage credits included.
Which has a free plan, Svix or Trigger.dev?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Svix and Trigger.dev 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.