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Monthly report · September 2026

Background jobs and cron, September 2026: 0 open gaps across 6 read companies.

As the catalog read it in September 2026 · written Oct 1, 2026. This report does not change after it is written.

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Forge’s own counts and the quoted claims with their sources are CC BY 4.0 — cite as Ambera Forge, Background jobs and cron, September 2026. Carried market-size figures are their publishers’ and are not in the file.

What was read

6 companies placed; 6 read during September 2026.

Gaps closed and opened

No complaint theme was raised about two or more read companies this month. There is no previous month on record to compare against.

Who entered

6 companies placed (Inngest, Trigger.dev, Cronitor, Upstash, Serverless background work, Builders of generated apps adding scheduled work); 0 products sighted by a search and not yet read.

Pricing moves

5 of 6 read companies have a pricing entry on record; 6 pricing changes recorded across 5 companies this month.

  • Trigger.dev [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026 · 1 change this monthTrigger.dev Cloud has four tiers: Free ($5/month included credits, 20 concurrent runs, unlimited tasks, 5 team members, 1-day log retention), Hobby ($10/month, $10 credits, 50 concurrent runs, 7-day retention), Pro ($50/month, $50 credits, 200+ concurrent runs, 25+ seats, 30-day retention, dedicated Slack support), and Enterprise (custom pricing with SSO, RBAC, SOC 2/pen-test reports, priority support). Usage beyond credits is billed per-second by machine size plus a per-run invocation fee of about $0.000025. source
  • Inngest [FACT] Sep 30, 2026 · 2 changes this monthInngest's current pricing page lists a Free/Hobby tier (5 seats, 50k executions, 5 concurrent steps, 3 workers, 500k events ingested), a Pro tier starting at $99/mo (15 seats, 1M executions + add-on, 100+ concurrent steps, 20 workers + add-on, Datadog/advanced observability add-on, HIPAA add-on), and a Business tier starting at $499/mo. source
  • Cronitor [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026 · 1 change this monthThird-party pricing trackers describe a three-tier Cronitor structure: free 'Hacker' plan (5 monitors, email/Slack alerts, 1-month retention), 'Business' plan priced near $2/monitor plus $5/user with unlimited API requests and 12-month retention, and a custom 'Enterprise' plan reported around $6,000/yr with a dedicated engineer. source
  • Upstash [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026 · 1 change this monthUpstash bills per request rather than per server: Redis is $0.20 per 100K commands, Vector is $0.40 per 100K query/update requests, and QStash is $1 per 100K messages, each with storage at $0.25/GB and a permanent free tier, plus fixed plans from $10/month up to $1,500/month. source
  • Builders of generated apps adding scheduled work [FACT] Sep 30, 2026 · 1 change this monthQueuebase's homepage lists a Free tier explicitly 'For hobby projects and side-builds' at $0 forever, including 10,000 jobs/month, 5 concurrent jobs, 7-day retention, and 1 project. source

What users raised

18 themes raised by users; the most raised: API routes re-register cron jobs per request (1 of 4), Basic analytics compared to competitors (1 of 4), expensive at scale / high traffic (1 of 4).

  • API routes re-register cron jobs per request 1/4
  • Basic analytics compared to competitors 1/4
  • expensive at scale / high traffic 1/4
  • function execution timeouts 1/4
  • Limited free tier (5 monitors) 1/4
  • multi-region replication multiplies billed commands 1/4
  • Narrow/niche scope vs all-in-one observability tools 1/4
  • need for external infra (Redis) felt heavy for side projects 1/4
  • no always-running process on platforms like Vercel 1/4
  • no execution history on free tier 1/4
  • no failure alerts on cron 1/4
  • no heartbeat/completion monitoring 1/4
  • node-cron fails on serverless/stateless deployments 1/4
  • Per-monitor + per-user pricing seen as costly at scale 1/4
  • REST API latency overhead 1/4
  • rigid cron scheduling (daily minimum on free tier) 1/4
  • schedule changes require redeploy 1/4
  • SLA requires Prod Pack add-on 1/4

Funding by quarter

Withheld: something was read in 1 of the last 8 quarters. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.

The ledger this month

29 observed claims recorded this month, 4 sources that did not answer.

  • PRODUCT · 13
  • COMPLAINT · 6
  • PRICING · 6
  • POSITIONING · 2
  • DISCOURSE · 1
  • FUNDING · 1

How big this market is, as its publishers state it

No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.

Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.

No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.

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