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Do AI agents pick Inngest?

How often agents choose Inngest when a developer needs background jobs & queues — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Inngest

#3 of 5 queues
2%Pick Rate
95% CI 1%5%

When developers ask an AI agent for queues, Inngest is picked 2% of the time — ranking #3 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 2% Named, not picked 6% Never surfaced 93%

Beaten by BullMQ (17%), Temporal (5%).

Awareness

1.2M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 270 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

4.8M installs / month ▲ 13% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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About Inngest

A platform that combines durable execution, event-driven queues, and background jobs without managing infrastructure.

Inngest lets developers write background jobs, scheduled tasks, step functions, and event-driven workflows directly in their existing codebase, with no additional infrastructure to provision or maintain. Functions are triggered by events via HTTP, run with automatic retries, and come with built-in observability through a management UI. It targets teams building on serverless platforms like Next.js, Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and AWS Lambda who need reliable async execution.

Where to start

Install the SDK, define functions using the Inngest client, and serve them through a framework adapter (Next.js, Remix, Redwood, and others are supported). From there, send events to trigger functions and monitor runs through the Inngest dashboard.

Install

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