Procrastinate
Ranked 8 of 8 job queue libraries by recommenders
Task queue that Django teams have run for years; people praise its speed, scale and clean, well-tested code.
Task queue that Django teams have run for years; people praise its speed, scale and clean, well-tested code.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not 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
Moved Celery tasks over, running well
“We moved all our celery tasks to procrastinate at work for all our django backends since almost two years now and it has been great.”
Comment from 29 Nov 2025 in “A first look at Django's new background tasks” Fast enough for startups
“if you are a startup and need speed, just go with something like procrastinate”
Comment from 29 Nov 2025 in “A first look at Django's new background tasks” Runs millions of tasks daily
“they're still sufficient to run millions upon millions of tasks per day”
Comment from 29 Nov 2025 in “A first look at Django's new background tasks” Clean architecture and well tested
“IMO super clean architecture and well tested.”
Comment from 29 Nov 2025 in “A first look at Django's new background tasks”
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 |
| ProcrastinateThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Nothing has really felt right.”
“if you are a startup and need speed, just go with something like procrastinate”
“We moved all our celery tasks to procrastinate at work for all our django backends since almost two years now and it has been great.”
“they're still sufficient to run millions upon millions of tasks per day”
“IMO super clean architecture and well tested.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.