Alternatives

Products that do what Orpheus, An Agent runtime that scales on queue depth and not CPU does

1. 1GA
   goworker – a faster, Resque-compatible background worker▲179

   2013 · goworker.org

2. 2SO
   SHARQ – Open Source, Rate-Limited Queuing System▲54

   2014 · sharq.io

3. 3SD
   Sandglass – Distributed, scalable, persistent time-sorted message queue▲188

   2017 · github.com

4. 4QT
   Queueing theory intro for software developers▲126

   2019 · github.com

5. 5ZA
   ZeroQueue, A low-code queue management system▲6

   2020 · zeroqueue.dev

6. 6SA
   StarQueue – a free hosted HTTP message queue with a Postgres back end▲43

   2021 · starqueue.org

7. 7MA
   Machinery – asynchronous task queue (Golang implementation of Celery)▲13

   2017 · github.com

8. 8SI
   Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes▲61

   2016 · scaphold.io

9. 9MD
   Martinet – Distributed Task Queue for Node.js▲28

   2014 · github.com

10. 10AS
    Asynq – Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue for Go▲8

    2020 · github.com

11. 11GF
    Goque – Fast disk-based stacks, queues, and priority queues for Go▲5

    2016 · github.com

12. 12PA
    Pueue: A daemonized Unix command line queue utility▲12

    2017 · github.com

13. 13AM
    A modern task queue for Python▲5

    2022 · taskiq-python.github.io

14. 14CS
    Cppq – Simple, reliable and efficient distributed task queue for C++17▲9

    2022 · github.com

15. 15BA
    Brooce, a language-agnostic job queue written in Go▲6

    2016 · github.com

16. 16QA
    Qew – a tiny queueing library written in TypeScript▲14

    2020 · github.com

17. 17CD
    Clockwork- Distributed, Scalable Job Scheduler▲14

    2019 · cynic.dev

18. 18TI
    Timeup.io – Convenient and Efficient Scheduling▲16

    2015 · landing.timeup.io

19. 19FS
    FaaStest – Serverless Platforms Benchmark Made Easy▲17

    2019 · faastest.com

20. 20AA
    An API for scheduling queue messages▲5

    2020 · schedulerapi.com

21. 21PA
    Pragma – A language for building GraphQL servers in no time▲15

    2020 · github.com

22. 22PA
    Paralyze – a go package that simplifies parallelization▲16

    2015 · github.com

23. 23TA
    TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP▲7

    Jul 2026 · taskpeace.com

24. 24SC
    Serverless code execution, but for AI agents▲7

    2024 · sandboxed.ai

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