Hangfire
An easy way to perform background job processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required (by HangfireIO)
MassTransit
Distributed Application Framework for .NET (by MassTransit)
| Hangfire | MassTransit | |
|---|---|---|
| 68 | 21 | |
| 9,774 | 7,450 | |
| 0.7% | 0.5% | |
| 8.7 | 9.6 | |
| 9 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Hangfire
Posts with mentions or reviews of Hangfire.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-14.
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Hangfire VS TickerQ - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 14 Jul 2025
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The Hangfire Cookbook: A Practical Guide to Background Job Processing in .NET and Azure
Hangfire is one of the most powerful background job processing libraries in the .NET ecosystem. Whether you're working with ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework, or integrating with Azure Services, Hangfire simplifies job scheduling, execution, and monitoring.
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Building a Real-Time Santa's Workshop Tracker with SignalR and .NET 9
SignalR and .Net work so well together. We also heavily leverage Hangfire (https://github.com/HangfireIO/Hangfire) in our apps for any async/background processes as well.
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Recurring Tasks in .NET C# : All options explained
Hangfire is a popular library for background job scheduling in .NET that provides support for recurring jobs, real-time monitoring, and persistent storage.
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Step-by-Step Guide to Scheduling API Calls with Hangfire in ASP.NET Core
By following this guide, you have integrated Hangfire into your . NET 8 project and scheduled an API call using Hangfire with SQL Server as the storage provider. This setup ensures your API is called regularly according to the specified schedule. For more advanced Hangfire configurations and storage options, refer to the official Hangfire documentation.
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20 Top C# Frameworks and Libraries on GitHub for Building Powerful Applications
6. Hangfire
- Hangfire – Background Processing in .NET and .NET Core Applications
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Deno Cron
Unpopular opinion incoming... What I see is yet another way that the backend JS world is finally achieving something .NET had years ago[0].
Node/Deno/Bun/etc. + npm sounds super straightforward at first glance (and it is at first). But I've thought for years that it's far easier to be productive as an organization on .NET in Visual Studio, since it's simpler to design, deliver, and maintain infrastructure.
[0] https://www.hangfire.io/
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Boosting Productivity with HangFire: Streamlining Background Job Processing
you can read about it here HangFire Documentation
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How do you save a file at the end of the day within a function that is only called at certain times?
I mostly work in .NET, and typically use Hangfire, but all languages has similar frameworks
MassTransit
Posts with mentions or reviews of MassTransit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
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Learning - MassTransit Transactional Outbox Pattern
MassTransit GitHub Repository
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Use MassTransit To Implement OutBox Pattern with EF Core and MongoDB
In this blog post, you will learn how to implement Outbox pattern using MassTransit library.
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Easy to use library for RabbitMQ in dotnet core.
What would be the benefits of using your library instead of something like MassTransit?
- Consistência de dados e padrão Outbox
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MassTransit with MSMQ vs RabbitMQ
However, I found this discussion on MT github: https://github.com/MassTransit/MassTransit/discussions/2546
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Agnostic Messaging Provider - Azure/Google/AWS
MassTransit (https://github.com/MassTransit/MassTransit)
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What's the deal with "hosts" in console applications now?
I really like https://masstransit-project.com/. I use it with both RabbitMQ and Azure Service Bus
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📦 Data consistency, outbox pattern and idempotency in a microservice architecture
There are many libraries in .NET that helps you implementing the outbox pattern like: MassTransit, NServiceBus, CAP. Talking about idempotency, a special mention to a specific lib from a big friend that runs on top of CAP which is called Ziggurat.
- Do I need message queues for sending emails/texts via services like SendGrid, AWS SES, Twilio etc.? How do you decide if you need message queues or not? What questions do you ask yourself?
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Best .net open source microservice based project?
I actually found the MassTransit samples really enlightening. https://masstransit-project.com/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Hangfire and MassTransit you can also consider the following projects:
RabbitMQ.NET - RabbitMQ .NET client for .NET Standard 2.0+ and .NET 4.6.2+
Rebus - :bus: Simple and lean service bus implementation for .NET
QuartzNet - Quartz Enterprise Scheduler .NET
EasyNetQ - An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ
Kafka Client
CAP - Distributed transaction solution in micro-service base on eventually consistency, also an eventbus with Outbox pattern