BullMQ
Ranked 6 of 8 job queue libraries by recommenders
People recommend it as a solid, well-liked Redis-backed job queue for background work, including one-off jobs, and some moved their work queues off Postgres to it.
People recommend it as a solid, well-liked Redis-backed job queue for background work, including one-off jobs, and some moved their work queues off Postgres to it.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Solid and well liked
“The Playwright + BullMQ stack is solid for this.”
Comment from 17 Feb 2026 in “I built a free alternative to Datadog Synthetic Monitoring using Playwright” “BullMQ, which is pretty solid and well liked”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful” “switched to Redis+BullMQ and have never looked back ever since”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I Love You, Redis, but I'm Leaving You for SolidQueue” Moved work queues off Postgres
“switched to Redis+BullMQ and have never looked back ever since”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I Love You, Redis, but I'm Leaving You for SolidQueue” “We are very glad we migrated off of PG for our work queues.”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I Love You, Redis, but I'm Leaving You for SolidQueue”
Other job queue libraries people recommend
The four most recommended other job queue libraries, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oban | 39 | 8 | 83% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Celery | 33 | 38 | 46% | 8 | — | — |
| Solid Queue | 22 | 3 | 88% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Sidekiq | 14 | 3 | 82% | 7 | — | Approved |
| BullMQThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“works well for use cases like bullmq”
“The recommendation is three lines of code”
“The Playwright + BullMQ stack is solid for this.”
“We are very glad we migrated off of PG for our work queues.”
“switched to Redis+BullMQ and have never looked back ever since”
“Queues like BullMQ are great for one-off jobs”
“BullMQ, which is pretty solid and well liked”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.