Oban

Self-hosted · paid plans from $11.25/mo

Freedom report

Two barsScore 6.3

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely0 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Oban is ranked #15 of 37 in task queue software on Freedom251. It runs on Self-hosted. There is a free plan. Paid plans start at $11.25/mo.

Oban plans and pricing

All plans

Open Source Free Free · Community support · No durable workflows · No global and rate limiting · No queue partitioning oban.pro · 7 Oct 2026

Pro (yearly) $135/yr Billed yearly as $1,620 1 application · Unlimited nodes · Email support · Elixir or Python oban.pro · 7 Oct 2026

Pro (monthly) $150/mo Billed monthly 1 application · Unlimited nodes · Email support · Elixir or Python oban.pro · 7 Oct 2026

Enterprise Not published Custom Application bundles · Elixir and Python included · Multi-year licenses · Invoice/PO payment · Enterprise support available oban.pro · 7 Oct 2026

Compared on task queue software

Free plan: Yes
Paid from: $135/mo
Deployment model: self_hosted
Custom retry policy: Yes
Scheduled jobs: Yes
Official SDK languages: Elixir, Python

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The record

Purpose: Oban is a background job framework for Elixir and Python, backed by a database.
Reliability: The open-source foundation provides durable background jobs, automatic retries, error handling, transaction safety, and at-least-once execution.
Workflows: Oban Pro workflows checkpoint each step in Postgres and resume from the last completed step after a crash, restart, or deploy.
Concurrency: Pro adds cluster-wide concurrency limits, rate limiting, queue partitioning, and burst mode.
Dashboard: Oban Web shows jobs, queues, schedules, and workflows across a cluster in a real-time dashboard, with controls to pause queues, retry or cancel jobs, and trigger crons.
Integrations: The maker documents Elixir and Python packages, and says workflows coordinate directly through Postgres without a separate orchestration service.
Data protection: Oban Pro supports encrypted job arguments at rest; its documentation says metadata, error messages, and stacktraces remain plaintext.
Security review: The enterprise page says Oban will answer security questionnaires and share the executive summary from its latest security audit.
Support: Pro includes email support, while Enterprise Support offers a private Slack or Teams channel, prioritized support, configuration review, and video issue-triage calls during US and UK business hours.
License limit: A standard Pro license covers one application, defined as a system sharing one production database, and permits unlimited staging or production nodes for that application.
Trial: The pricing FAQ says Oban does not offer a free trial.
Company: The makers describe themselves as Parker and Shannon Selbert, a small software shop developing, designing, and supporting Oban.
Price from: $11.25/mo

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Task Queue Software in 2026#15 of 37

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Sources

oban.pro· checked 7 Oct 2026
oban.pro/docs/pro/Oban.Pro.Worker.html· checked 7 Oct 2026
oban.pro/enterprise· checked 7 Oct 2026
oban.pro/pricing· checked 7 Oct 2026
oban.pro/company· checked 7 Oct 2026