AWS Lambda pricing

The service that created the category, billed on requests plus memory-time. The permanent free tier absorbs a surprising amount of production traffic before a bill appears.

List prices checked

By Amazon Web Services · Serverless functions

Rate card

What Amazon Web Services charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Free tierYes1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month, always free

Source: Amazon Web Services pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

AWS Lambda billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

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Amazon Web Services does not publish a rate for platform on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

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Amazon Web Services does not publish a rate for platform on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

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Amazon Web Services does not publish a rate for platform on this service, so a total would be misleading.

AWS Lambda vs the alternatives

The closest serverless platforms on price, with the difference on serverless functions's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs AWS LambdaCompare
Cloudflare Workers$5.00—Head to head
Netlify Functions$19.00—Head to head
Vercel Functions$20.00—Head to head
Deno Deploy$20.00—Head to head
Fastly Compute$50.00—Head to head
Google Cloud Run——Head to head

Questions about pricing

How much does AWS Lambda cost in 2026?
AWS Lambda charges usage-based rates with no fixed monthly floor, per Amazon Web Services's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month, always free. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does AWS Lambda have a free tier?
Yes — 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month, always free. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
Are these AWS Lambda prices current?
They were checked against Amazon Web Services's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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