Serverless functions pricing compared
Code that runs per request with no instance to provision, billed on invocations and on memory held for the duration of execution. Free tiers are wide enough that many production workloads never generate a bill at all.
List prices checked
Rate cards
All 8 serverless platforms in the dataset, sorted by the axis this category is actually billed on.
| Service | Provider | Entry /mo | Egress /GB | Storage /GB-mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers | Cloudflare | $5.00 | — | — |
| Netlify Functions | Netlify | $19.00 | — | — |
| Vercel Functions | Vercel | $20.00 | — | — |
| Deno Deploy | Deno | $20.00 | — | — |
| Fastly Compute | Fastly | $50.00 | — | — |
| AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services | — | — | — |
| Azure Functions | Microsoft | — | — | — |
| Google Cloud Run | — | — | — |
Ranked by real monthly cost: Growing SaaS
A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers. Each provider's own published rates, applied to identical usage.
| # | Service | Monthly | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare Workers | $5.00 | Plan fee $5.00 |
| 2 | Netlify Functions | $19 | Plan fee $19 |
| 3 | Vercel Functions | $20 | Plan fee $20 |
| 4 | Deno Deploy | $20 | Plan fee $20 |
| 5 | Fastly Compute | $50 | Plan fee $50 |
| 6 | AWS Lambda | — | No published rate for platform |
| 7 | Azure Functions | — | No published rate for platform |
| 8 | Google Cloud Run | — | No published rate for platform |
Excludes committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges. Services that do not publish a rate for every axis this category bills on are listed last rather than shown as cheap.
Questions
- What is the cheapest serverless platform in 2026?
- For the "Growing SaaS" workload — a funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers. — Cloudflare Workers comes out cheapest at $5.00 per month on published list prices. Ranked purely on the headline rate the order is different, which is why both tables are on this page.
- At what request volume does a serverless function stop being cheaper than a small always-on server?
- The second table answers it directly: it applies each provider's published rates to one identical workload and ranks by the resulting monthly bill. Change the workload and the ranking changes — that is the point, and it is why a single "best" list is usually wrong.
- Are these serverless functions prices current?
- Each row is stamped with the month it was last checked against the provider's own pricing page, and every service page links straight to that page. Providers change list prices without notice, so treat these as a starting point and confirm before you commit.