Trigger.dev is a platform for running long-running background tasks, workflows and AI agents. Tasks are ordinary functions in your code that run on managed servers, with no timeouts and no infrastructure to manage. The company says runs can last indefinitely, and that some users have runs lasting more than six months.
The platform covers the parts of a background job system that developers usually build by hand: retries, concurrency limits, queues, scheduled tasks, waits, and tracing of each run in a dashboard. Tasks can be triggered from your app, from verified webhooks, or on a cron schedule. Realtime lets a frontend follow the progress of a task as it runs.
The MCP Server is a separate piece of the product. It lets AI assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code work with your Trigger.dev projects. It can search the documentation, initialise a project, list tasks, trigger runs, deploy to environments, and query run data. Install it with npx trigger.dev@latest install-mcp, or paste a config snippet into the client you use. Authenticated tools require logging in through the Trigger.dev CLI, and a login expires after seven days without use. A read-only mode hides tools that change your account.
The platform is aimed at developers building software. Trigger.dev can also be self-hosted, and its source code is open source on GitHub.
Pricing starts with a free plan that includes $5 of monthly credits, 20 concurrent runs and community support. The Hobby plan is $10 a month, and the Pro plan is $50 a month with $50 of credits included. Enterprise pricing is custom. You pay for compute seconds on the machine you choose and for each run that starts on managed workers. Runs in the development environment are not charged for run invocations.
