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Inngest vs DigitalOcean

Durable functions + event-driven workflows for modern apps
vs. The developer cloud — Droplets, Kubernetes, Managed DBs, App Platform

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Pricing tiers

Inngest

Free
$0. 50K steps/mo + 1K concurrent executions. 7-day log retention. 1 environment.
Free
OSS (self-host)
Free forever. Inngest Dev Server + self-hosted Inngest runtime. Apache 2.0.
$0 base (usage-based)
Starter
$20/mo. 250K steps/mo. 5K concurrency. 14-day retention. 3 envs.
$20/mo
Pro
$75/mo. 1M steps/mo. 10K concurrency. 30-day retention. Priority support.
$75/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, HIPAA, dedicated clusters, self-host with Inngest Enterprise.
Custom
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DigitalOcean

Functions (Serverless)
Free 90k GB-sec/month. $0.0000185 per GB-sec after.
$0 base (usage-based)
App Platform — Free
Static sites free forever. 3 static sites per account.
Free
Droplet — Basic 512MB
Shared CPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, 500 GiB transfer. Cheapest starting tier.
$4/mo
Spaces Object Storage
$5/month — 250 GB storage + 1 TB outbound. S3-compatible.
$5/mo
App Platform — Basic
$5/month per app. 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 1 GB bandwidth.
$5/mo
Droplet — Basic 1GB
Shared CPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD.
$6/mo
Kubernetes (DOKS)
Starts at $12/month (1 node). Control plane free.
$12/mo
Droplet — Basic 2GB
1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD, 2 TB transfer.
$12/mo
Load Balancer
$12/month. Supports HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt.
$12/mo
Managed Postgres — Basic
1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD. Single node.
$15/mo
Droplet — CPU Optimized
2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM dedicated. Best for CPU-bound workloads.
$42/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Volume discounts, dedicated support.
Custom
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Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Inngest vs functions on DigitalOcean.

MetricInngestDigitalOcean
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Inngest · 14 features

  • AgentKit — Build AI agents as durable Inngest functions.
  • Auto Retries — Configurable retries with exponential backoff.
  • Concurrency Controls — Per-function and per-user concurrency limits.
  • Cron Triggers — Scheduled functions via cron syntax.
  • Debounce — Coalesce rapid-fire events into one execution.
  • Dev Server — Local Inngest runtime for dev.
  • Durable Steps — step.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent.
  • Event System — Typed events with schemas.
  • Fan Out / Batching — Process many events in parallel with batch control.
  • Priority Lanes — Route premium customers to faster execution.
  • Rate Limiting — Throttle events per key.
  • Realtime — Stream function output to clients.
  • Replay — Re-run past functions with new code.
  • Self-Host — OSS runtime — run your own Inngest.

DigitalOcean · 14 features

  • App Platform — Heroku-style PaaS. Deploy from Git. Auto-HTTPS, auto-scale, zero-downtime deploy…
  • Backups — Weekly automated backups (20% of Droplet cost). Manual snapshots.
  • Block Storage Volumes — SSD block storage attachable to Droplets. Snapshot support.
  • DigitalOcean GenAI Platform — Managed AI agents, model-as-a-service (Llama, Mistral), knowledge bases.
  • DNS — Free DNS hosting for your domains.
  • DOKS (Kubernetes) — Managed Kubernetes. Free control plane. Node auto-repair.
  • Droplets — Virtual machines with shared or dedicated CPU. 20+ one-click Marketplace images.
  • Functions — Serverless functions. Node, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby. Pay-per-execution.
  • Load Balancers — Layer 4/7 load balancing with HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt.
  • Managed Databases — Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey. Automated backups + …
  • Marketplace — 300+ one-click Droplet + Kubernetes apps.
  • Monitoring — Built-in metrics + alerts for Droplets, DBs, Load Balancers.
  • Spaces — S3-compatible object storage with built-in CDN.
  • VPC — Private networking. Free. Automatic default VPC per region.

Developer interfaces

KindInngestDigitalOcean
CLIinngest-cli (dev server)doctl CLI
SDKinngestgo, inngest (Python), inngest (TS/Node)godo (Go), pydo (official py), python-digitalocean
RESTInngest REST APIDigitalOcean REST API
MCPInngest MCPDigitalOcean MCP
OTHERInngest Cloud Dashboard—
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