# Trigger.dev

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/trigger-dev/  
**Website:** https://trigger.dev  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Trigger.dev is an open source platform for building and deploying fully-managed AI agents and background workflows in TypeScript. It provides durable task execution without timeout constraints, automatic retries, scheduled cron tasks, queues with concurrency controls, real-time observability, React hooks for streaming run status, human-in-the-loop waitpoints, batch triggering, and a comprehensive Management API. Cloud-hosted at cloud.trigger.dev and self-hostable via Docker or Fly.io.

## Kin Score — 52.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 71.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 54.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 28.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Trigger.dev Realtime API** — The Trigger.dev Realtime API streams live run state and typed stream data to backend and frontend clients. Backend SDK methods include runs.subscribeToRun, runs.subscribeToRunsW...
- **Trigger.dev Batches API** — Create and retrieve large-scale batch runs.
- **Trigger.dev Deployments API** — List deployments and promote versions to production.
- **Trigger.dev Environment Variables API** — Create, read, update, delete, and import environment variables per project and environment.
- **Trigger.dev Query API** — Execute TRQL queries against runs, tasks, and metrics for dashboards and analytics.
- **Trigger.dev Queues API** — Manage task queues including pause, resume, and concurrency overrides.
- **Trigger.dev Runs API** — List, retrieve, cancel, replay, reschedule, tag, and inspect run events, results, and traces.
- **Trigger.dev Schedules API** — Create and manage cron schedules with IANA timezone support.
- **Trigger.dev Tasks API** — Trigger individual or batched task runs.
- **Trigger.dev Waitpoints API** — Create, list, retrieve, and complete waitpoint tokens for human-in-the-loop workflows.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Trigger Dev Agentic Access** — 44 operations · 26 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Trigger Dev Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Trigger Dev Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Trigger Dev Trust Center** — SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Trigger Dev Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Developer-First, Workflow-Automation, Background Jobs, Durable Execution, TypeScript, AI Agents, Real-Time, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/trigger-dev/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.