Trigger.dev Free

Trigger.dev

Free forever

$5 of usage credit a month with 20 concurrent runs and 10 schedules; tasks stop running once the credit is used until you upgrade.

Verified ·Oct 15, 2026

Free allowance

What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.

monthly usage credit / month
5 USD
Pays for compute seconds on managed workers ($0.0000338/s on the default Small 1x machine) plus $0.000025 per run.
concurrent runs
20
In the production environment; staging and preview get 10 each.
schedules
10
Per project; up to 10 projects per organization.
log retention
1 d
seats
5

The fine print

Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.

Free for
As long as you stay within the limits
At the limit
You are asked to upgrade
Spending cap
None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
Idle projects
No pause rule documentedWaits longer than 5 seconds are checkpointed and use no compute; runs in the DEV environment are not charged.
Data retention
No deletion rule documented
Card at sign-up
Not required
Identity check
Not documented
Commercial use
Not stated
Mainland China
Not verified
Sign-up regions
No restrictions documented
Quotas apply per
Organization

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