NewWhy every AI app needs an execution layer

Reliable execution for AI jobs, webhooks, and API tasks.

Queue work, retry failures, respect rate limits, and run scheduled jobs without managing infrastructure.

No credit card requiredFree 10,000 job executions / monthSDKs for TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go
app.simpleq.dev / queues
Queued24
Running8
Ready2
ID
Type
Status
Job Count
q_8a3f
openai
Ready
8,500
q_9b21
webhook
Paused
q_71c9
twilio
Running
100,340
q_44de
amazon-ses
Paused
1,800
q_22a0
claude
Ready
640ms
Throughput
2,418/min
Success rate
99.94%
P95 latency
412ms

Built for teams shipping AI, SaaS, automation, and async-heavy products

AI Startup
SaaS Co
Agency
Internal Tools
Enterprise
The problem

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.

The solution

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.

Developer-first

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
server/enqueue-job.ts
ts
1import { SimpleQ } from "@simpleq/sdk";
2 
3const simpleq = new SimpleQ({
4 apiKey: process.env.SIMPLEQ_API_KEY
5});
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});
Dashboard

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.

app.simpleq.dev / overview
Total jobs
0
Pending
0
Running
0
Failed
0
Completed
0
Success rate
0.00%
Executions this month
0 / 1,500,000
Queues
ai-jobs
892,113
webhooks
241,902
outbound-sms
48,118
billing-sync
14,209
Recent failures
Dead-letterFilter
JobTypeErrorAttemptsWhenAction
job_3f12openai.chat429 rate_limit_exceeded5/52m ago
job_a91dwebhook.deliverETIMEDOUT after 30s3/56m ago
job_7c44twilio.sms20003 authenticate5/511m ago
Connectors

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.

Claude
Available now
OpenAI
Available now
Gemini
Available now
Generic HTTP / Webhooks
Available now
Twilio
Coming soon
Zapier
Coming soon
Slack
Coming soon
SendGrid
Coming soon
Pricing

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.

Free
$0/month

For prototypes and side projects.

  • 10,000 job executions / month
  • 1 project
  • 1 connector*
  • Basic retries
  • 24-hour logs
  • Email support — no SLA
Starter
$49/month

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
Most popular
Growth
$499/month

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
Enterprise
Custom

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.

See full feature comparison and FAQ on the pricing page.
Vision

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.

Questions

Frequently asked questions.

Still have a question? Reach out on the contact page and we'll get back within a day.

Each job attempt processed by SimpleQ counts as a job execution.

Stop rebuilding async infrastructure.

Start running reliable AI jobs, webhooks, and API workflows in minutes.