Background Jobs Python Packages

svix

The open source and enterprise-ready webhooks service 🦀

rq

Simple job queues for Python

bullmq

BullMQ - Message Queue and Batch processing for NodeJS, Python, .NET, Elixir, Rust and PHP based on Redis or PostgreSQL

django-rq

A simple app that provides django integration for RQ (Redis Queue)

pgqueuer

PostgreSQL-backed background job and task queue for Python.

django-background-tasks

A database-backed work queue for Django

chancy

A postgres-backed task queue for Python.

quebec

Quebec - Solid Queue for Python, a DB-backed job queue written in Rust

nuke-di

Type-hint based dependency injection for async Python: client lifecycle, jobs and workers with graceful shutdown, FastAPI and pytest integration

celery-pool-asyncio

Celery pool to run coroutine tasks

django-tasks-scheduler

Schedule async tasks using redis protocol. Redis/ValKey/Dragonfly or any broker using the redis protocol can be used.

django-tasks-redis

A Redis/Valkey-backed task queue backend for Django 6.0's built-in task framework.

steady-queue

A DB-backed task backend for Django

pf-core

Python foundation for LLM apps whose prompts and spend you can actually see — versioned prompts, every call recorded and replayable, budgets, evals, jobs.

quiv

quiv is a lightweight background task scheduler for Python applications.

flask-crontab

Simple Flask scheduled tasks without extra daemons

zoo-framework

In-process task orchestration for Python: scheduled, observable, stateful — no broker, no cron daemon.

sqs-job-worker

Framework-agnostic Amazon SQS job worker for Python, with weighted multi-queue polling, visibility timeout heartbeats, and graceful shutdown

due-work-harness

Conformance proofs for background work that must survive lost messages, dead workers and uncertain external calls.

tarsk

A Python task queue whose workers hold a memory ceiling you set — without losing a task. Rust supervisor, Redis or Postgres.

python-pq

Job queue for Python backed by Postgres. Process-per-task fork isolation, transactional enqueueing, periodic tasks, priority queues. No broker required.

hapless

Run and manage background processes

tarsk-redis

A Python task queue whose workers hold a memory ceiling you set — without losing a task. Rust supervisor, Redis or Postgres.

tarsk-amqp

A Python task queue whose workers hold a memory ceiling you set — without losing a task. Rust supervisor, Redis or Postgres.