An easy and reliable way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring, long-running, short-running, CPU or I/O intensive tasks inside ASP.NET applications. No Windows Service / Task Scheduler required. Even ASP.NET is not required.
Backed by Redis, SQL Server, SQL Azure or MSMQ. This is a .NET alternative to Sidekiq, Resque and Celery.
https://www.hangfire.io/
Tentative categories were assigned with moderate confidence (0.5 to 0.75): they are shown, but they do not count toward a category’s momentum. How categories work
Install
dotnet add package Hangfire
Adoption
All-time downloads
107.9M
Observeddownloads, all time
Popularity
Top 25% on NuGet
Derived87th percentile within NuGet
Dependents
—Not published by NuGet
Not published
Maintenance
0.81
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
11
141 versions over its life
Growth by period
Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of NuGet’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.
7 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
30 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
90 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
1 year
Collectinghistory
Collecting
Adoption history
Adoption historydownloads, all time
Observations in this range began OCT 5, 2026. The chart appears after 7 observations; 2 so far. Collecting history.