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Do AI agents pick Trigger.dev?

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

Trigger.dev

#4 of 5 queues
0%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%3%

When developers ask an AI agent for queues, Trigger.dev is picked 0% of the time — ranking #4 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 0% Named, not picked 6% Never surfaced 94%

Beaten by BullMQ (17%), Temporal (5%), Inngest (2%).

Awareness

611K package downloads / week

Thin presence in the data models learn from — an awareness problem. Get into more code, docs, and developer discussion.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 181 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.

2.2M installs / month ▲ 3% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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About Trigger.dev

A background jobs and task queue platform for running long-running code outside of normal request cycles.

Trigger.dev lets developers define and run background jobs, scheduled tasks, and event-driven workflows directly in their codebase. It handles queuing, retries, logging, and observability so teams can offload work that would otherwise time out in serverless functions or block web requests. It targets Node.js developers building applications that need reliable async task execution.

Where to start

Install the Node.js SDK and connect it to a Trigger.dev project to start defining jobs in your codebase. The Trigger.dev dashboard provides visibility into job runs, logs, and failures.

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