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Huey

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Score
5.7
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Plans and prices

From Huey's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.

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The facts

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What it does

Dependencies
Huey has no dependencies outside the Python standard library; Redis-like brokers and PostgreSQL need their respective client libraries.checked 4 Oct 2026
Deployment
The documentation includes deployment guidance for Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and PaaS environments.checked 4 Oct 2026
Development and testing
Immediate mode runs task functions synchronously and is documented for development and testing.checked 4 Oct 2026
Framework integrations
Huey provides Django integration, including native support or django.tasks, and optional Django admin visibility and management.checked 4 Oct 2026
Other integrations
Huey documents Flask-Peewee admin integration and extensions for asyncio and task statistics.checked 4 Oct 2026
Product
Huey is a lightweight Python task queue with a clean, simple API.checked 4 Oct 2026
Reliability controls
Huey supports automatic retries for failed tasks, including configurable delays and backoff.checked 4 Oct 2026
Scheduling
Tasks can be scheduled for a given time or delay, and recurring tasks can use crontab-like schedules.checked 4 Oct 2026
Security
The documentation includes a signed serializer recipe for untrusted environments.checked 4 Oct 2026
Storage backends
Huey supports Redis (including Valkey and Redict), PostgreSQL, SQLite, filesystem, and in-memory storage.checked 4 Oct 2026
Task controls
The feature list includes task prioritization, result storage, expiration, locking, rate limits, and timeouts.checked 4 Oct 2026
Worker models
Consumers can execute tasks using multiple processes, multiple threads, or greenlets.checked 4 Oct 2026
Workflow composition
Huey supports task pipelines and chains, plus groups for fan-out and chords for map/reduce workflows.checked 4 Oct 2026

The company

Maker
The project author identifies Huey as one of his open-source Python libraries and says his projects grew out of problems encountered in his work.checked 4 Oct 2026

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