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Decision brief
Trigger.dev provides both cloud-managed and self-hosting options for deploying AI agents and workflows, with its platform built using TypeScript.
Good fit when
- - **Custom Workflows**: If you need to implement complex, custom orchestrations involving different AI tasks that are well-defined and require scalability without managing infrastructure.
- - **Integration Requirements**: When integrating your AI solutions deeply into a Next.js app or leveraging background job capabilities, Trigger.dev offers native support through its SDK.
Avoid when
- - **Minimal AI Workloads**: If your AI usage is minimal or sporadic, you might find the overhead of setting up tasks using the SDK to be unnecessary complexity.
- - **Cloud Agnosticism**: Preferring a solution that abstracts away cloud-specific configurations, as Trigger.dev’s focus on cloud-managed services and self-hosting options may require more manual work
- Requirements:
- Min 4 GB RAM; Requires Docker; Self-hosting options are provided, but require Docker Compose or Kubernetes setup knowledge.
Observed Jul 11, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Overview
Trigger.dev offers a platform for creating, deploying, and managing AI agents and workflows with both cloud-managed and self-hosting options.
Capability facts
- CLI
- CLI entrypoint
Source: package.json:bin|scripts · Jul 20, 2026
- MCP server
- No MCP server detected
Source: repo_scan · Jul 20, 2026
- Languages
- typescript, javascript
Source: github.language+package.json · Jul 20, 2026
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Deployment
Use our SDK to write tasks in your codebase. There's no infrastructure to manage, your tasks automatically scale and connect to our cloud. Or you can always self-host.
Getting started
The quickest way to get started is to create an account and project in our web app, and follow the instructions in the onboarding. Build and deploy your first task in minutes.
Self-hosting
If you prefer to self-host Trigger.dev, you can follow our self-hosting guides:
- Docker self-hosting guide - use Docker Compose to spin up a Trigger.dev instance
- Kubernetes self-hosting guide - use our official Helm chart to deploy Trigger.dev to your Kubernetes cluster
For agents
This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.