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GrowthBook vs Inngest

Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native
vs. Durable functions + event-driven workflows for modern apps

GrowthBook websiteInngest website

Pricing tiers

GrowthBook

Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
GrowthBook 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 oss on GrowthBook vs free on Inngest.

MetricGrowthBookInngest
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

GrowthBook · 15 features

  • Approval FlowsRequire reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
  • Audit LogsFull change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
  • Dimensions & SlicingBreak down experiment results by user dimensions.
  • Edge SDK SupportCloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
  • ExperimentsA/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
  • Feature FlagsBoolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
  • Feature Reviews (PR-style)Draft → review → approve flag changes.
  • Guardrail MetricsAuto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
  • Metric CatalogDefine + reuse metrics across experiments.
  • Multi-Armed BanditsAdaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
  • Safe RolloutsGuarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
  • SSO / SAMLEnterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
  • Sticky BucketingUser stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
  • Visual A/B Test EditorNo-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
  • Warehouse NativeConnect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.

Inngest · 14 features

  • AgentKitBuild AI agents as durable Inngest functions.
  • Auto RetriesConfigurable retries with exponential backoff.
  • Concurrency ControlsPer-function and per-user concurrency limits.
  • Cron TriggersScheduled functions via cron syntax.
  • DebounceCoalesce rapid-fire events into one execution.
  • Dev ServerLocal Inngest runtime for dev.
  • Durable Stepsstep.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent.
  • Event SystemTyped events with schemas.
  • Fan Out / BatchingProcess many events in parallel with batch control.
  • Priority LanesRoute premium customers to faster execution.
  • Rate LimitingThrottle events per key.
  • RealtimeStream function output to clients.
  • ReplayRe-run past functions with new code.
  • Self-HostOSS runtime — run your own Inngest.

Developer interfaces

KindGrowthBookInngest
CLIinngest-cli (dev server)
SDKEdge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-reactinngestgo, inngest (Python), inngest (TS/Node)
RESTGrowthBook REST APIInngest REST API
MCPInngest MCP
OTHERWebhooksInngest Cloud Dashboard
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