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Comparison

Fission vs Val Town

No clear leader: Fission (53.5) and Val Town (52.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Fission54
Val Town53
Score
vioscaleAI score
Fission54 / 100medium · 54%
Val Town53 / 100medium · 70%
Pricing
Free tier
Fission✓
Val Town✓
Model
Fissionopen_source
Val Townfreemium
Price level
Fissionfree
Val Townmid
Transparent
Fission✓
Val Town✓
Integrations
Count
Fission6
Val Town3
Security
Disclosure policy
Fission–
Val Town✓
Scorecard
Fission7.7
Val Town–
Soc2
Fission–
Val Town✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Fission–
Val Town✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Fission3
Val Town–
Github stars
Fission8,933
Val Town–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Fission60
Val Town–
Release
Cadence days
Fission24
Val Town–
History
Fission20 items
Val Town–
License
Spdx
FissionApache-2.0
Val Town–
Language
Primary
FissionGo
Val Town–
Content
Faq
Fission6 items
Val Town6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for serverless & edge platforms. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Execution substrate
FissionContainer
Val Town-
Language / runtime breadth
FissionPython, NodeJS, Go, Rust, C#, PHP (extensible to any language)
Val TownTypeScript
Reach
Runs at global edge PoPs
Fission✗
Val Town-
Scale
Scale to zero
Fission✓
Val Town-
Performance
Cold-start profile
FissionProvisioned concurrency
Val TownLow
Limits
Max execution duration
Fission-
Val Town-
Integration
Event source breadth
FissionHTTP and event triggers
Val Towncron, webhooks, email
HTTP endpoint trigger
Fission✓
Val Town✓
Cron / scheduled invocations
Fission✓
Val Town✓
State
Durable state / workflow primitive
Fission-
Val Town✓
Flexibility
Bring-your-own runtime / container
Fission✓
Val Town-
Deployment
Hosting
FissionCloud + self-hosted
Val TownCloud only
Ops
Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
Fission✓
Val Town-
Extensibility
CLI + IaC / framework support
Fission✓
Val Town-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Fission

An open-source framework for building and deploying serverless functions on Kubernetes with automatic scaling. Supports multiple programming languages and can be triggered by HTTP requests, message queue events, and scheduled tasks.

Independently observed

Val Town

Val Town enables rapid deployment of code and applications with built-in TypeScript support, scheduling, email handling, and persistent storage. Applications are deployed to the cloud and accessible via URLs within seconds.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Fission

Open sourceFree tier

Free, open source under Apache License

as of verify ↗

Val Town

from $21/moHybridFree tier

Free tier available. Pro from $21/mo, Business from $167/mo. Yearly billing with 2 months free discount.

  • FreeFree
    • MCP integration
    • 15 min cron intervals
    • 1 min wall clock time/run
    • Unlimited public vals
    • 3 days log retention
    • +1 more
  • Pro$21/mo
    • $10 Townie (AI) credit/mo
    • 10 custom domains
    • 1 minute cron intervals
    • 10 min wall clock time/run
    • 2,000 private vals
    • +2 more
  • BusinessFrom $167/mo
    • Everything in Pro
    • $100 Townie (AI) credit/mo
    • Unlimited custom domains
    • 5,000,000 runs/day
    • Team accounts
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Business
    • Flexible Townie (AI) credit
    • No limits
    • Log export
    • SOC 2
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Fission✗
Val Town✓
CLI
Fission✓
Val Town✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Fission✗
Val Town✓
Self-hosted
Fission✓
Val Town✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • MCP

Fission

6 total - 5 not shared
  • Kubernetes
  • Istio
  • Fluentd
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
Independently observed

Val Town

5 total - 4 not shared
  • Slack
  • HubSpot
  • Codex
  • Cursor
Independently observed
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Fission or Val Town: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.