Independent product intelligence · Worldwide · 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31

Trigger.dev

Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for managing background jobs, offering features like cron scheduling, retries, and observability without infrastructure management.

Developer & AI Platformtrigger.devTracked since 2026-08-211 discovery source
16.1KBacklinks
1.3KReferring domains
32Domain authority
+26.5%Referring domains · 90 days

Authority & distribution

How strong is Trigger.dev’s web footprint?

Backlinks measure accumulated distribution; referring domains show how broadly that authority is spread. Both are observable on the open web, so both are published for every product here.

Backlinks

16.1KCurrent snapshot

Referring domains

1.3KCurrent snapshot

Authority

32Domain authority · category median 22

90-day move

+26.5%Referring domains, last 90 days
At 32, Trigger.dev sits above the 22 median for its category.

Trajectory · Pro

The counts above are the latest of 370 daily observations. The curve through them is on the full profile.

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Traffic & engagement

Where Trigger.dev ranks

Measured · Pro

Measured for this product: global rank, country rank and category rank.

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AI referral visibility

Which AI assistants are already sending Trigger.dev traffic?

Measured · Pro

Measured for this product: AI referral traffic, which assistants refer it and which pages those referrals land on.

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Product profile

What Trigger.dev is selling.

Traffic makes more sense when you can connect it to the actual product promise.

“Trigger.dev”

Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for managing background jobs, offering features like cron scheduling, retries, and observability without infrastructure management.

Developer & AI PlatformSeen 2026-08-21 → 2026-08-21Coverage tier C

What we have measured

4 of 8 signal groups are available for this product: identity, authority and backlinks, AI referrals, search demand.

Not measured for this domain: traffic and engagement, audience demographics, country distribution, acquisition mix. Those sections are left out of the page rather than filled with estimates.

Canonical website: https://trigger.dev

Observed across 1 discovery source.

Research questions

What the evidence answers about Trigger.dev.

Every answer is tied to a source we collected, and the questions with no evidence behind them are left unanswered rather than guessed.

Who is the target audience for Trigger.dev?

The target audience is developers and companies looking to build, deploy, and manage AI agents and workflows in code. It is specifically for those needing to offload long-running async AI tasks to a managed infrastructure.

What key features, surfaces, or integrations does Trigger.dev offer?

Trigger.dev offers features like cron scheduling, retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling. It supports building durable AI agents with human-in-the-loop functionality, tool calling, streaming responses, and integrations with models like Claude Sonnet, all within a TypeScript development environment.

Is Trigger.dev an open-source product, and what is its community adoption?

Yes, Trigger.dev is an open-source platform. The measured data shows it has 16,100 stars on GitHub, indicating significant community adoption and trust among developers.

What is Trigger.dev and what problem does it solve?

Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents and workflows. It solves the problem of handling long-running asynchronous tasks, such as media processing or AI inference, by providing a fully managed infrastructure with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling, freeing developers from infrastructure management.

What is Trigger.dev used for and in what situations?

Trigger.dev is used for building and deploying durable AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. It is employed in situations requiring long-running tasks like AI chat agents, media generation, human-in-the-loop processes, and scheduled tasks, where it ensures tasks survive refreshes and crashes.

5 of 6 research questions are answered for this product. The rest need source evidence we have not collected yet, so they are left unanswered rather than guessed.

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  • Backlink trajectoryThe figures above are the latest observation. The daily curve behind them holds 370.
  • AI referral detailHow much traffic assistants send, which 6 of them do it, and the 8 pages they land on.
  • Search structure and ranking depthOrganic against paid, brand against non-brand, and how many keywords rank in the top three against the long tail — which is what decides whether the demand is portable or tied to the name.
  • The rest of the marketPage through every leaderboard 100 rows at a time, put any five products side by side, and query the whole dataset over API / MCP.

Worldwide estimates · Data period 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31. Figures are measured estimates intended for market research. Signals we have not measured for this domain are omitted, never estimated; a measured zero is still reported as zero. How this was measured