Guided scenario
Cheapest serverless functions
Event-driven workloads and lightweight APIs shouldn't pay for always-on servers. This shortlist ranks serverless function platforms by price and startup fit, surfacing pay-per-use compute that scales to zero when idle. Weigh cold-start behavior, runtime and language support, and execution limits against your workload, and look closely at the per-invocation pricing model so cost stays tied to actual use.
AWS Lambda
aws.amazon.com/lambda
AWS Lambda is Amazon's serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without provisioning servers, billing per request and duration.
Azure Functions
azure.microsoft.com/products/functions
Azure Functions is Microsoft's serverless compute service for running event-driven code without managing infrastructure, integrated with the Azure ecosystem.
Cloudflare Workers
workers.cloudflare.com
Cloudflare Workers is a serverless platform that runs JavaScript and WebAssembly at Cloudflare's edge locations close to users.
Deno Deploy
deno.com/deploy
Deno Deploy is a serverless edge platform for running JavaScript and TypeScript built on the Deno runtime, distributed globally.
Fastly Compute
www.fastly.com/products/compute
Fastly Compute is Fastly's WebAssembly-based edge compute platform, running Rust, JavaScript, and Go code across its global network with sub-millisecond cold starts.
Google Cloud Functions
cloud.google.com/functions
Google Cloud Functions is Google's serverless compute service, launched in 2017, that runs event-driven code without server management.
Google Cloud Run
cloud.google.com/run
Google Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform that runs stateless containers directly on Google's infrastructure, automatically scaling from zero to many instances based on incoming requests.
Netlify Functions
www.netlify.com/products/functions
Netlify Functions are serverless functions that add back-end logic to sites hosted on Netlify, deployed from the same Git repo.
