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A Inngest alternative for businesses that need custom AI automation, not a SaaS.
Inngest is reliable durable-execution platform for background jobs + ai workflows. Solidus designs and builds the entire custom AI automation network around your business — productized engagements starting at $4,500.
What is Inngest?
Reliable durable-execution platform for background jobs + AI workflows.
Positioned for: Engineering teams building serverless or event-driven AI workflows.
Where Inngest wins
- ✓Excellent for long-running, reliable AI workflows
- ✓Strong observability + retry logic
- ✓Free tier sufficient for most builds
Where Solidus wins
- ✓Infrastructure layer — you still write the workflow code
- ✓Requires engineering capacity
- ✓No business-level interface for non-technical operators
The honest read
Inngest is great infrastructure — we use it ourselves on many client builds. Solidus is the team that picks Inngest as one component and ships the full system around it.
Start with the $4,500 audit.
Pay, fill an intake, get a Claude Opus-written strategic roadmap inside a week. No sales call required.
Questions
How is Solidus different from Inngest?+
Inngest is great infrastructure — we use it ourselves on many client builds. Solidus is the team that picks Inngest as one component and ships the full system around it.
Is Inngest ever the right answer?+
Yes — when engineering teams building serverless or event-driven ai workflows.. Excellent for long-running, reliable AI workflows Strong observability + retry logic. For everyone else, owned custom AI automation tends to be a better fit at the price points we operate at.
What does Solidus cost vs Inngest?+
Solidus offers productized engagements: $4,500 for an Audit + Roadmap, $25,000 for a Single-Workflow Build, $75,000-$150,000 for a Full Automation Network. Inngest is free.