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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Hatchet vs Skipper
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Hatchet and Skipper — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Hatchet vs Skipper: 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 Skipper?
Skipper's route server stops recompressing zones whose routes didn't change.
Skipper v0.28.56 makes routesrv hash each availability zone and recompress only zones that changed, about 11% faster when one zone changes and keeping If-Modified-Since caching intact for the rest. The other five tags from October 24–26 are dependency bumps and a test fix. Earlier in the week, v0.28.49 restored a dropped OPA health workaround.
Hatchet vs Skipper: 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.
Skipper
5.0INFRA · APIS
Skipper's route server stops recompressing zones whose routes didn't change.
◆ Current state
Skipper v0.28.56 makes routesrv hash each availability zone and recompress only zones that changed, about 11% faster when one zone changes and keeping If-Modified-Since caching intact for the rest. The other five tags from October 24–26 are dependency bumps and a test fix. Earlier in the week, v0.28.49 restored a dropped OPA health workaround.
◆ Where it's heading
Skipper publishes a tag for nearly every merged PR, so most releases are maintenance. The real changes over October are security fixes in its filters, OPA reliability, and now zone-aware routing performance in routesrv.
◆ Prediction
Expect continued per-PR tags dominated by dependency bumps, with occasional routesrv and OPA filter changes.
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Recent activity from Hatchet and Skipper
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 20h agoHatchetHatchet v0.115.0: contributor list update, no product notes
- 21h 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
- 3d agoSkipperSkipper routesrv only recompresses changed zones
- 3d agoSkipperSkipper v0.28.55: fuzzing base image bump
- 3d agoSkipperSkipper v0.28.54: CI login-action bump
- 3d agoSkipperSkipper v0.28.53: go-proxyproto bump
- 3d agoSkipperSkipper v0.28.52: CI setup-python bump
- 4d agoSkipperSkipper v0.28.51: metrics test stabilised
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Hatchet and Skipper?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hatchet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), 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 Skipper?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hatchet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), 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 Skipper?
Top Skipper alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Skipper alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/skipper for the full list with editorial commentary on each.