Bullpane vs Taskforce.sh
Checked against taskforce.sh and its docs on 27 September 2026 · Other comparisons: bull-board · QueueDash
Taskforce.sh is the hosted BullMQ dashboard made by the team behind BullMQ itself. It is polished, it gets new BullMQ features first, and it monitors as well as displays. Bullpane is the self-hosted option: one container in your network, job data that never leaves it, a free edition with no account, and Pro priced per installation instead of per connection.
Short answer. Pick Taskforce if a hosted service is fine for your data, you have one Redis and want the lowest monthly price, or you need PagerDuty and email alerts today. Pick Bullpane if job payloads must not leave your network, you have several Redis connections, or you want roles, SSO and an audit log in your own database without a sales call.
Side by side
| Bullpaneself-hosted | Taskforce.shhosted SaaS · on-prem on request | |
|---|---|---|
| Job data stays in your network | ✓ | –SaaS proxies it through their servers; on-prem keeps it |
| Redis reachable only from inside your network | ✓ | ✓with the connector |
| Free edition | ✓no account, no login | –15-day trial |
| Search inside job data | ✓ | ✓ |
| BullMQ Pro groups | ✓free edition | ✓needs Connector Pro |
| Flows | ✓tree per job · Pro: queue graph | ✓ |
| Metrics history | ✓per-minute, from BullMQ metrics | ✓up to 2 weeks, per minute |
| Alerts | ProSlack, webhook | ✓email, Slack, PagerDuty |
| Users & roles | Proadmin / operator / viewer | ✓custom roles from Growing ($49.95) |
| SSO (OIDC, SAML 2.0) | Pro | –not listed |
| Audit log of user actions, in your own database | ProCSV export | –audit trail listed for AI agents |
| AI agents over MCP | – | ✓ |
| Source code | On GitHub: MIT core, Pro source-available | Closed; connector is MIT |
| Price | Free · Pro $39/mo or $390/yr, unlimited connections and users | $19.95/mo for 1 connection · $49.95 for 5 · $99.95 for 15 · unlimited users |
Where Taskforce is the better choice
- It is made by the BullMQ authors. New BullMQ and BullMQ Pro features show up there first, and nobody knows BullMQ's internals better.
- Nothing to run. Sign up, connect a Redis, done. Bullpane is a container you operate (SQLite built in, MySQL optional).
- Cheaper for a single Redis. Starter is USD 19.95/month for one connection with unlimited users and alerts. Bullpane Pro is USD 39/month.
- More alert channels. Email, Slack and PagerDuty, with monitors for failed jobs, missing workers, backlog, memory and the connection itself. Bullpane Pro alerts go to Slack or any webhook (which reaches PagerDuty through its Events API, but it is not one click).
- An MCP endpoint so AI agents can investigate and act on queues with scoped tokens. Bullpane has none yet.
- Compliance paperwork. Taskforce states SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance. If your vendor review wants a report, that saves a round.
Where Bullpane is the better choice
Your job data never leaves your network
The hosted Taskforce reaches your queues in one of two ways. Either its servers connect to your Redis directly, from a published IP, which means your Redis accepts connections from the internet and your Redis password is stored on their side. Or you run taskforce-connector, which opens a WebSocket from your network to api.taskforce.sh and proxies Redis traffic through it. Taskforce says it never stores payloads; they still transit its servers. For job data holding personal, financial or health data, that is a vendor-review conversation. Bullpane runs next to your workers and talks to Redis over your private network. No job data goes out and there is no telemetry; the free edition makes no outbound calls at all, and Pro only renews its license with api.bullpane.com (offline keys exist for air-gapped installs).
Taskforce does sell an on-premises edition. Its price is not published, and it needs PostgreSQL, Redis 7+, Auth0 and Mailgun to run. Bullpane needs nothing else: SQLite is built in, MySQL is optional.
Priced per installation, not per connection
Every Redis you want to see (production, staging, each region, each prefix) is a connection. On Taskforce, two to five of them means Growing at USD 49.95/month; up to fifteen, Enterprise at USD 99.95. Bullpane Pro is USD 39/month or USD 390/year for one installation with unlimited connections and unlimited users. And the free edition, with every read and every job action, costs nothing and has no trial clock.
The team features in one plan
Bullpane Pro includes user accounts with admin/operator/viewer roles enforced on every API call, SSO over OIDC and SAML 2.0 that your own admin configures in the UI, and an append-only audit log of who retried, drained, paused or obliterated what, from which IP, stored in your database and exportable to CSV. On Taskforce, custom roles start at the Growing plan; SSO and a user audit log are not listed on its pricing page.
Source you can read
Bullpane's code is public: the free edition is MIT and the Pro features are source-available. You can read every Redis command it sends before you point it at production, and the free edition keeps working if the company behind it stops. Its read rules (no KEYS, one Lua round trip per read, payloads truncated inside Redis) are documented and load-tested in STRESS-TEST.md.
Price for the same setup
| Setup | Bullpane | Taskforce.sh |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Redis, a viewer is enough | $0 (free edition) | $19.95/mo |
| 1 Redis, alerts, team | $39/mo | $19.95/mo |
| Prod + staging, custom roles | $39/mo | $49.95/mo |
| 6 to 15 connections | $39/mo | $99.95/mo |
| Yearly, 5 connections | $390/yr | $495/yr |
Taskforce prices from the pricing section of taskforce.sh on 27 September 2026, in USD. On Taskforce Starter, roles are not included.
Try it on your own queues
Start Bullpane next to your workers with BULLPANE_READ_ONLY=true and point it at the same Redis Taskforce already watches. They do not interfere.
Install the free edition See Pro pricing
Sources
- taskforce.sh: pricing and FAQ
- Taskforce docs: direct Redis connection, connector, on-premises, metrics, Connector Pro
- taskforce-connector on GitHub
- Bullpane on GitHub
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