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Comparison

OpenFaaS vs Val Town

On the evidence we track, Val Town leads this comparison with a composite score of 51/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

OpenFaaS full profile →Val Town full profile →
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OpenFaaS41
★Val Town51
Score
Vioscale score
OpenFaaS41 / 100low · 42%
Val Town51 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tier
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town✓
Model
OpenFaaScommercial
Val Townfreemium
Price level
OpenFaaSlow
Val Townmid
Transparent
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town✓
Integrations
Count
OpenFaaS20
Val Town2
Security
Disclosure policy
OpenFaaS–
Val Town✓
Scorecard
OpenFaaS4.3
Val Town–
Soc2
OpenFaaS–
Val Town✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
OpenFaaS–
Val Town✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
OpenFaaS55
Val Town–
Github stars
OpenFaaS26,231
Val Town–
Activity
Commits last 30d
OpenFaaS0
Val Town–
Release
Cadence days
OpenFaaS136
Val Town–
History
OpenFaaS5 items
Val Town–
Language
Primary
OpenFaaSGo
Val Town–
Market
Availability
OpenFaaSAvailable worldwide · HQ GB
Val Town–

Capabilities

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

Core
Execution substrate
OpenFaaS-
Val Town-
Language / runtime breadth
OpenFaaSextensive language support
Val TownTypeScript
Reach
Runs at global edge PoPs
OpenFaaS-
Val Town-
Scale
Scale to zero
OpenFaaS-
Val Town-
Performance
Cold-start profile
OpenFaaS-
Val Town-
Limits
Max execution duration
OpenFaaSextended execution timeouts
Val Town-
Integration
Event source breadth
OpenFaaS-
Val Towncron, webhooks, email
HTTP endpoint trigger
OpenFaaS-
Val Town✓
Cron / scheduled invocations
OpenFaaS-
Val Town✓
State
Durable state / workflow primitive
OpenFaaS-
Val Town-
Flexibility
Bring-your-own runtime / container
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town-
Deployment
Hosting
OpenFaaSCloud + self-hosted
Val TownCloud only
Ops
Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
OpenFaaS-
Val Town-
Extensibility
CLI + IaC / framework support
OpenFaaS-
Val Town-

What each one is

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

OpenFaaS

Open-source serverless framework that abstracts cloud provider differences, allowing you to deploy and run functions across multiple clouds, on-premises, and Kubernetes with extended execution timeouts and support for many programming languages.

Independently observed

Val Town

Leader

Val Town is a cloud runtime that enables teams to quickly build and deploy code-based internal tools, integrations, and automations. It supports scheduled task execution, webhook handling, email delivery, and provides a TypeScript development environment with AI coding assistance.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

OpenFaaS

from $1250/moHybridFree tier14-day trial

Community Edition free; Standard from $1,250/month with 14-day trial; Enterprise custom pricing

  • Community EditionFree
    • 15 functions
    • 1 namespace
    • Public repositories only
    • Basic autoscaling up to 5/5 replicas
    • Basic metrics & observability
    • +3 more
  • OpenFaaS Standard$1,250/month
    • 500 functions
    • 1 namespace
    • Private registries for functions
    • Fine-tuned autoscaling for RPS, Capacity & CPU
    • Scale to Zero
    • +9 more
  • OpenFaaS for EnterprisesContact sales
    • 5000 functions per namespace
    • Unlimited namespaces
    • Multi-tenancy with secure isolation (gVisor)
    • Function Builder API (REST)
    • Dedicated async queues (JetStream)
    • +9 more
as of verify ↗

Val Town

Leader
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
OpenFaaS✗
Val Town✓
Linux
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town✗
CLI
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town✓
Self-hosted
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town✗
On-premise
OpenFaaS✓
Val Town✗

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Slack

OpenFaaS

20 total - 19 not shared
  • Apache Kafka
  • AWS SQS
  • AWS SNS
  • GCP Pub/Sub
  • RabbitMQ
  • PostgreSQL
  • MQTT
  • Cron
  • Grafana
  • Istio
  • Linkerd
  • NATS JetStream
  • GitHub
  • Salesforce
  • Zoom
  • Google Docs
  • Gmail
  • DigitalOcean
  • Crunchbase
Independently observed

Val Town

Leader
2 total - 1 not shared
  • HubSpot
Independently observed

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