Trigger.dev vs Windmill

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Trigger.dev compared with Windmill
Detail	Trigger.dev	Windmill
What it does	The open source platform for durable AI agents	Code-first orchestration platform for internal software
Stage	Established	Established
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	US
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Pricing	Free plan with $5/month credits, Hobby ($10/month with $10 credits), Pro ($50/month with $50 credits), Enterprise with custom pricing. Billed by compute usage and run invocations.	Free Community Edition with unlimited executions and self-hosting. Team plan at $10/month per developer. Enterprise plan from $120/month with advanced observability, security, and performance features including 24/7 support.
Key features	AI agents that survive refreshes, redeploys, and crashes Long-running tasks without timeouts Automatic retries with configurable backoff Fair queuing with concurrency controls Real-time observability and monitoring Human-in-the-loop workflows Streaming LLM responses to frontend Scheduled tasks and cron jobs Multi-region deployment Elastic auto-scaling infrastructure	Scripts in TypeScript, Python, Go, Bash and 20+ languages Workflows and data pipelines Auto-generated UIs and forms Git-based collaboration and version control Granular permissions and role-based access control Encrypted secrets and resource management Full observability and audit logging Docker and Kubernetes deployment Worker groups and auto-scaling 100+ integrations with external systems
What makes it different	Durable execution that survives crashes and redeploys No infrastructure to manage or timeouts to worry about Stream responses directly to frontend with built-in Realtime Full TypeScript support with no runtime restrictions	Open-source and self-hostable with no vendor lock-in Fastest job orchestrator in the industry Full code flexibility without boilerplate Git-based infrastructure as code for teams SOC 2 Type II certified with enterprise security
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	73 no change since last check	66 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	35	31
Citation Flow (Majestic)	50	47
Referring domains (Majestic)	2300	1385

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