Hatchet review

Hatchet earns fourth place on value. Its cloud has no plan fees: the first million task runs and million events each month are free, and after that you pay $30 per million runs and $5 per million events, with volume pricing above 100M runs. That makes it the cheapest way on this list to run a large volume of background tasks. The engine is MIT licensed and runs locally with a single CLI command or on Kubernetes, Docker, ECS and Cloud Run. Native SDKs cover TypeScript, Python and Go. Scheduling controls are a strength: priority queues let urgent tasks jump ahead of backfills, and rate limits can be fixed for third-party APIs or set per user. Logs land in Hatchet with full-text search. The gaps are a shorter language list than Temporal or Restate, 7-day run retention on pay-as-you-go, and child tasks that count as separate runs.

Who it is for

Teams that run high volumes of background tasks in TypeScript, Python or Go and want low per-run prices with no plan fees.

Price

1M task runs and 1M events free every month; then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events, no plan fees.

Then $30 per million runs, $5 per million events
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Native SDKs for TypeScript, Python and Go
• Priority queues so latency-sensitive tasks run before backfills
• Static and dynamic rate limits, including per-user limits
• Log ingestion with full-text search and filtering
• Runs on Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Cloud Run and other container platforms

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: The largest free monthly allowance of any cloud on this list
• Strength: No plan fees, and 50 users are included
• Strength: Fully MIT licensed and self-hostable
• Weakness: Fewer SDK languages than Temporal or Restate
• Weakness: A task that spawns another task counts as two runs
• Weakness: Run history is kept for 7 days on pay-as-you-go

Key facts

• Free usage: 1M task runs and 1M events a month
• Task runs: $30 per million after the free million
• Events: $5 per million after the free million
• Compliance: SOC 2 Type II on every plan

Where it ranks

Hatchet is No. 4 in our Best Workflow Orchestration Tools verdict.