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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Hatchet vs restic
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Hatchet and restic — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Hatchet vs restic: at a glance
What is Hatchet?
Hatchet takes durable tasks serverless, with handlers for Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node.
Hatchet's new @hatchet-dev/serverless 0.1.0 runs tasks on Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node. An in-engine operator delivers them by signed POST or by an invocation websocket that also carries durable sleeps, waits and child runs. Around it, the engine shipped three patches in a day: DAG replays no longer take an advisory lock, worker shutdown now waits for durable tasks, and status queries use partition pruning. The API now declares 429 with Retry-After on every authenticated call.
What is restic?
A backup tool whose roadmap is correctness, release after release
restic ships roughly two releases a year, and the changelogs are almost entirely fixes ordered by importance. The 0.19 line (June and July 2026) continues that pattern: mount safety, SFTP behavior on Windows servers, exclude handling, and exit-code semantics. New capability appears rarely and narrowly, usually as backend credential support rather than new commands.
Hatchet vs restic: editorial side-by-side
Hatchet
6.3INFRA · APIS
Hatchet takes durable tasks serverless, with handlers for Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node.
◆ Current state
Hatchet's new @hatchet-dev/serverless 0.1.0 runs tasks on Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node. An in-engine operator delivers them by signed POST or by an invocation websocket that also carries durable sleeps, waits and child runs. Around it, the engine shipped three patches in a day: DAG replays no longer take an advisory lock, worker shutdown now waits for durable tasks, and status queries use partition pruning. The API now declares 429 with Retry-After on every authenticated call.
◆ Where it's heading
Until now, running Hatchet meant running long-lived workers. The serverless package removes that requirement, so durable execution can run where JavaScript teams already deploy. The engine work points the same way: rate limits declared in the spec, safer worker acks, cheaper status queries. Patch cadence is still very high, often several engine tags a day, and much of it fixes durable-task edge cases.
◆ Prediction
Expect quick 0.1.x serverless releases as early users hit edge cases on each platform, and possibly matching Python handlers. More engine patches on durable-task shutdown and replay are likely.
restic
2.5INFRA · APIS
A backup tool whose roadmap is correctness, release after release
◆ Current state
restic ships roughly two releases a year, and the changelogs are almost entirely fixes ordered by importance. The 0.19 line (June and July 2026) continues that pattern: mount safety, SFTP behavior on Windows servers, exclude handling, and exit-code semantics. New capability appears rarely and narrowly, usually as backend credential support rather than new commands.
◆ Where it's heading
The concentration of work is on the platforms where a backup tool is hardest to get right — Windows ACL inheritance and VSS metadata, macOS resource forks and FUSE mounts, SFTP and rclone backends under background execution. Running alongside that is a steady push toward being scriptable: distinct exit codes for missing source paths, snapshot removal failures and SIGINT, JSON output extended across more commands, and errors on invalid environment variables instead of silent defaults.
◆ Prediction
The next release will most likely be another 0.19.x patch of platform-specific fixes, since every minor in this window has been followed by one within a month or two.
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Recent activity from Hatchet and restic
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 20h agoHatchetHatchet v0.115.0: contributor list update, no product notes
- 22h agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.15 fixes migration deadlocks
- 23h agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.14 builds its own continuous aggregates
- 1d agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.13 quiets noisy DAG operator errors
- 1d agoHatchetPython SDK 1.43.2 parses 429 rate-limit errors
- 1d agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.12 adds a Concurrency dashboard page
- 3mo agoresticMount safety, SFTP-on-Windows deletes, exclude correctness
- 4mo agoresticDistinct exit codes and Samba-served mounts
- 1y agoresticEdge-case fixes for xattrs, chmod and stdin backups
- 1y agoresticChunking attack mitigation and JSON output for check
- 1y agoresticmacOS Sonoma mount and Windows VSS metadata fixes
- 2y agoresticContainer-level SAS tokens for the Azure backend
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Hatchet and restic?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hatchet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Hatchet better than restic?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hatchet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Hatchet?
Top Hatchet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hatchet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hatchet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to restic?
Top restic alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "restic alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/restic for the full list with editorial commentary on each.