---
title: sleep
description: Suspend a workflow for a duration or until a date without consuming resources.
type: reference
summary: Use sleep to suspend a workflow for a duration or until a specific date without consuming resources.
prerequisites:
  - /docs/foundations/workflows-and-steps
related:
  - /docs/ai/sleep-and-delays
---

# sleep



Suspends a workflow for a specified duration or until an end date without consuming any resources. Once the duration or end date passes, the workflow will resume execution.

This is useful when you want to resume a workflow after some duration or date.

<Callout>
  `sleep` is a *special* type of step function and should be called directly inside workflow functions.
</Callout>

```typescript lineNumbers
import { sleep } from "workflow"

async function testWorkflow() {
    "use workflow"
    await sleep("10s") // [!code highlight]
}
```

## API Signature

### Parameters

<TSDoc
  definition={`
import { sleep } from "workflow";
export default sleep;`}
  showSections={['parameters']}
/>

## Examples

### Sleeping With a Duration

You can specify a duration for `sleep` to suspend the workflow for a fixed amount of time.

```typescript lineNumbers
import { sleep } from "workflow"

async function testWorkflow() {
    "use workflow"
    await sleep("1d") // [!code highlight]
}
```

### Sleeping Until an End Date

You can specify a future `Date` object for `sleep` to suspend the workflow until a specific date.

```typescript lineNumbers
import { sleep } from "workflow"

async function testWorkflow() {
    "use workflow"
    await sleep(new Date(Date.now() + 10_000)) // [!code highlight]
}
```


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