Inngest
Event-driven durable workflow platform — competes with Temporal for the JS/TS/Python crowd. Inngest AgentKit (memory cross-listed) is the agent extension.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 23 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Event-driven durable workflows vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Latest release
- v4.26.0 (2026-10-22) registry fix
- License
- SSPL-1.0 with delayed Apache-2.0 grant (server; each release becomes Apache-2.0 three years after publication); SDKs Apache-2.0 repo fix
- GitHub
- inngest/inngest — ~6k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial repo fix
- SDK languages
- go, python, rest, typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server, opentelemetry vendor fix
- Compliance
- soc2-type1, soc2-type2 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 17.39 (12-mo avg 25.36) · 44 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
$6.1M seed Andreessen Horowitz (2023).
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Inngest Cloud; self-hosting supported since the 1.0 release
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — AgentKit agents consume MCP servers as tools via mcpServers (Streamable HTTP, SSE, WebSocket)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (22 cited facts, 2 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Event-driven durable workflows vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Event-driven durable workflow platform — competes with Temporal for the JS/TS/Python cro… vendor
- Claims / benefits $6.1M seed Andreessen Horowitz (2023). vendor
- Created 2021 vendor
- Latest release v4.26.0 (2026-10-22) registry
- License SSPL-1.0 with delayed Apache-2.0 grant (server; each release becomes Apache-2.0 three ye… repo
- GitHub inngest/inngest — ~6k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Funding $24M total raised through Series A 2024-02 ($21M, Notable Capital led). vendor
- Customers / scale Vendure, Render, SoundCloud, GitBook, Productboard; durable workflows for AI agents. vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Inngest Cloud; self-hosting supported since the 1.0… vendor
- HQ San Francisco, CA, USA. third-party
- Founders / pedigree Tony Holdstock-Brown (CEO), Dan Farrelly (CTO); founded 2021. vendor
- MCP support yes — AgentKit agents consume MCP servers as tools via mcpServers (Streamable HTTP, SSE,… vendor
- Runtimes TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin, Java repo
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":172.1,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":25.36,"openrank_current":17.39,"part… third-party
- compliance-certifications soc2-type1,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages go,python,rest,typescript vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server,opentelemetry vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- License first recorded as “SSPL-1.0 with delayed Apache-2.0 grant (server; each release becomes Apache-2.0 three years after publication); SDKs Apache-2.0” source
- Latest release first recorded as “v4.26.0 (2026-10-22)” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Inngest Cloud; self-hosting supported since the 1.0 release” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — AgentKit agents consume MCP servers as tools via mcpServers (Streamable HTTP, SSE, WebSocket)” source
Related systems
References (9)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: AgentKit Anthropic model adapter (reference). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Browserbase integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: "Using AgentKit with Browserbase" integration guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Daytona integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: "Using AgentKit with Daytona" integration guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- e2b integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: "Using AgentKit with E2B" integration guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: AgentKit Gemini model adapter (reference). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: AgentKit Memory concept page: long-term memory by integrating Mem0. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: AgentKit "MCP as tools" guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: AgentKit OpenAI model adapter (reference). (verified 2026-10-29)
- xAI Grok 4 integrates with — Inngest AgentKit docs: AgentKit Grok model adapter (reference). (verified 2026-10-29)
Referenced by (2)
- Browserbase integrates with — Browserbase docs have a Inngest integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Daytona integrates with — Daytona docs have a guide for running Inngest with Daytona sandboxes. (verified 2026-10-29)