Reliable execution for AI jobs, webhooks, and API tasks.
Queue work, retry failures, respect rate limits, and run scheduled jobs without managing infrastructure.
Built for teams shipping AI, SaaS, automation, and async-heavy products
Every team rebuilds the same fragile async infrastructure.
Background work is the duct tape of every modern app — and it breaks in the same ways everywhere. SimpleQ replaces it with a primitive built for production.
APIs fail and timeout
Transient errors take down requests, lose work, and create silent data loss.
Rate limits break workflows
Bursty traffic hits provider limits and your jobs start dropping or 429ing.
Cron jobs do not scale
One server, no retries, no visibility — and zero answers when something goes wrong.
Background jobs disappear
Process restarts, deploys, or memory pressure quietly delete in-flight work.
Retry logic becomes messy
Every team rebuilds backoff, jitter, idempotency, and dead-letter the hard way.
Teams lack visibility
No dashboards, no logs, no alerts — debugging is grep and prayer.
SimpleQ handles execution so your team can build product.
One API for queues, retries, schedules, rate limits, and connectors. Drop it in, ship the next feature, sleep through the night.
Queue async jobs
Push work onto durable queues with at-least-once delivery and idempotency keys.
Schedule future work
Run anything in 5 minutes, next Tuesday, or every weekday at 9am — without cron.
Retry failures automatically
Exponential backoff, jitter, max attempts, and dead-letter queues out of the box.
Respect provider rate limits
Token-bucket rate limits per key — OpenAI, Twilio, Stripe — never get throttled again.
Monitor every job execution
Per-job logs, latency, attempts, payloads, and one-click retries from the dashboard.
Connect to OpenAI, webhooks, and more
Typed connectors that handle auth, retries, and error shapes for the APIs you depend on.
One API to run reliable background work.
Type-safe SDKs for TypeScript, Python, and Go. A single enqueue call gives you retries, rate limiting, scheduling, and visibility — without spinning up a queue cluster.
- Idempotency keys for safe retries
- Per-key rate limits across providers
- Scheduled, delayed, and recurring jobs
- Dead-letter queues with one-click replay
1import { SimpleQ } from "@simpleq/sdk";2 3const simpleq = new SimpleQ({4 apiKey: process.env.SIMPLEQ_API_KEY5});6 7await simpleq.enqueue({8 queue: "ai-jobs",9 type: "openai.chat",10 payload: {11 model: "gpt-4o-mini",12 messages: [13 { role: "user", content: "Summarize this customer request" }14 ]15 },16 retry: {17 maxAttempts: 5,18 backoff: "exponential"19 },20 rateLimitKey: "openai-production"21});Built for the work modern apps depend on.
From AI pipelines to webhook delivery, SimpleQ replaces the bespoke retry-and-rate-limit code your team keeps writing.
AI job processing
Process summaries, embeddings, agents, and long-running LLM tasks reliably.
Webhook delivery
Retry failed webhooks with backoff and dead-letter handling.
Bulk API operations
Sync thousands of records without hitting rate limits.
Scheduled jobs
Run reminders, follow-ups, and delayed tasks without cron.
SMS and email workflows
Throttle outbound messages and prevent duplicate sends.
API orchestration
Chain OpenAI → database → webhook → notification.
Know exactly what is happening.
Inspect every job, every attempt, every payload. Filter by queue, status, or error. Retry from the dashboard or replay the dead-letter queue with one click.
| Job | Type | Error | Attempts | When | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| job_3f12 | openai.chat | 429 rate_limit_exceeded | 5/5 | 2m ago | |
| job_a91d | webhook.deliver | ETIMEDOUT after 30s | 3/5 | 6m ago | |
| job_7c44 | twilio.sms | 20003 authenticate | 5/5 | 11m ago |
Start with any API. Scale into every workflow.
Typed connectors handle auth, retries, error shapes, and rate limits per provider. Or use generic HTTP for anything that speaks JSON.
Start free. Scale with usage.
Transparent pricing per job execution. No seats, no per-queue fees, no surprises — and 10% off when you pay annually.
For prototypes and side projects.
- 10,000 job executions / month
- 1 project
- 1 connector*
- Basic retries
- 24-hour logs
- Email support — no SLA
For small teams shipping in production.
- 100,000 job executions / month included
- $0.50 per 1,000 extra job executions
- 3 projects
- Multiple queues
- Scheduled jobs
- Retry policies
- 7-day logs
- Unlimited connectors*
- Support: 3 business day response
For teams running at scale.
- 1,000,000 job executions / month included
- $0.30 per 1,000 extra job executions
- Unlimited queues
- Advanced rate limits
- Unlimited connectors*
- 30-day logs
- Priority processing
- Support SLA: 1 business day
Dedicated infrastructure and support.
- Dedicated workers
- Unlimited connectors*
- Longer log retention
- Compliance support
- Same-day support
* Connectors include 500 free job executions / month — then metered based on usage.
The execution layer for every API and AI workflow.
SimpleQ starts with queues, retries, and rate limits. Over time, it becomes the platform where companies run, monitor, and optimize every external API call, AI task, and automated workflow — the place where all the unreliable, asynchronous work in your stack actually gets done.
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