Hatchet

Hatchet is a task orchestration platform for background tasks, workflows and AI agent workloads. Hatchet's own pricing page, read directly, announces new pay-as-you-go pricing and lists a plan that is $0 to start with no plan fee, including 1 million runs and 1 million events free each month, then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events. The listed limits are 100 workers, 10 tenants, 50 users, seven-day retention and 10 GB a day of active storage, with SOC 2 Type II. A Custom tier is for 100 million-plus runs a month, with dedicated capacity, SSO, RBAC, audit logs, HIPAA and self-hosted or bring-your-own-cloud options. A calculator shows 1 million runs and events with 2 KB payloads at $0 a month.

The comparison table is ambiguous, with two pay-as-you-go columns, no card and card on file. The no-card column appears to allow 2,000 task runs and events a day, 10 workers and one-day retention, while the card-on-file column gives the 1 million included, 100 workers and 50 users then $10 per user, so confirm the limits. Retries do not count as runs but failures do, billing is every 30 or 31 days, and data planes run in AWS Oregon, North Virginia, Ireland and Sydney. The page links an AI agents use case without describing features, says Hatchet is 100% open source under MIT and self-hostable, and shows a 2026 copyright for Hatchet Technologies with a YC careers link. It is general orchestration, with AI as a main use case.

Hatchet suits teams that want a fast open-source queue and workflow engine for agents. Compare Temporal, Inngest and Trigger.dev. Browse the AI Agents & Automation tools directory for more.

Agent and AI task orchestration

Durable execution.

Background jobs and cron

Queues and schedules.

Hatchet price?

Pay as you go, 1M runs free monthly.

Licence?

MIT.

Do retries count?

No.

Self-host?

Yes.