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Anthropic API vs Inngest

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Durable functions + event-driven workflows for modern apps

Anthropic website ↗Inngest website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

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
Inngest website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs free on Inngest.

MetricAnthropic APIInngest
discount batch50 % off—

Features

Anthropic API · 0 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.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIInngest
    CLIClaude Code CLIinngest-cli (dev server)
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)inngestgo, inngest (Python), inngest (TS/Node)
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Inngest REST API
    MCP—Inngest MCP
    OTHER—Inngest Cloud Dashboard
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