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HangFire.Core

An easy and reliable way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring, long-running, short-running, CPU or I/O intensive tasks in .NET applications. No Windows Service / Task Scheduler required. Backed by Redis, SQL Server, SQL Azure or MSMQ. This is a .NET alternative to Sidekiq, Resque and Celery. https://www.hangfire.io/

Total Downloads
382.3M
382,278,871
Published
Aug 12, 2025
Latest stable version

Install

.NET CLI
dotnet add package HangFire.Core --version 1.8.21
Package Manager Console
Install-Package HangFire.Core -Version 1.8.21
PackageReference
<PackageReference Include="HangFire.Core" Version="1.8.21" />

Frameworks

.NETFramework4.5.1 .NETFramework4.6 .NETStandard1.3 .NETStandard2.0

Dependencies

Owin
.NETFramework4.5.1
[1.0.0, )
Newtonsoft.Json
.NETFramework4.5.1
[5.0.1, )
Owin
.NETFramework4.6
[1.0.0, )
Newtonsoft.Json
.NETFramework4.6
[5.0.1, )
NETStandard.Library
.NETStandard1.3
[1.6.0, )
[4.0.0, )
[4.0.10, )
Newtonsoft.Json
.NETStandard1.3
[9.0.1, )
Newtonsoft.Json
.NETStandard2.0
[11.0.1, )

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