Azure webjobs have been around for a while. In fact, the Azure functions SDK builds on top of the webjobs SDK. Azure functions are the most popular because of their event-driven and microbilling aspects. Trigger them when an event occurs. Then, only pay for what you use. Scale automatically.

The Microsoft documentation does a great job outlining many differences and giving some opinions.

But, they recently announced a new plan for Azure functions - premium plan. Premium plan backfills many of the weaknesses that Azure functions had over webjobs:

• VNet integration
• No coldstart issue
• Better hardware

So, is there a need to create Azure webjobs anymore? Probably not. There are a few small circumstances, such as the need for file system trigger. Other than that, the only other usecase I can think of is something I needed recently: less outbound IPs. I had a situation in which I had to whitelist my service so having a webjob made the list of possible outbound IPs much smaller than a consumption-based azure function. For a consumption-based azure function, I would have to whitelist the entire datacenter.