# OpenFaaS

> Serverless Functions, Made Simple

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/openfaas
- **Category:** Serverless & Edge Platforms
- **Homepage:** https://www.openfaas.com/
- **Also known as:** openfaas
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-01T21:33:11.629Z

## Vioscale score

**43.7 / 100**, confidence 21% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 25 | 8 | 200 | ✓ |
| reliability | 0 | 30 | 0 | - |
| capabilities | 86.7 | 12 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| github_stars | 83.3 | 5 | 416.7 | ✓ |
| integrations | 27.4 | 16 | 439.1 | ✓ |
| github_activity | 0 | 18 | 0 | ✓ |
| release_cadence | 24.4 | 10 | 244.4 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 0 | 22 | 0 | - |
| package_downloads | 0 | 26 | 0 | - |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 12 | 1200 | ✓ |
| stackoverflow_activity | 0 | 12 | 0 | - |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-01, [verify at source](https://www.openfaas.com/). Independently observed._

from $1250/mo · Hybrid · Free tier · 14-day trial

> Free Community Edition. $1250/month Standard for production teams. Custom Enterprise pricing for multi-tenant SaaS deployments.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Community Edition | Free | ✓ | - |
| OpenFaaS Standard | $1250/month | - | - |
| OpenFaaS for Enterprises | Contact sales | - | - |

### Community Edition

Limited version for personal-use, hobbyists and experimentation. Run functions for a PoC, non-production or experimental use only. 60-day limit on commercial use.

**Included limits:** functions: 15, namespaces: 1, repositories: public only

- 15 functions
- 1 namespace
- Public repositories
- Legacy UI portal
- REST API
- Basic autoscaling
- Basic metrics & observability
- Cron trigger

### OpenFaaS Standard

Production-ready functions for a single team or tenant. Scalable and event-driven automation for business use.

**Included limits:** functions: 500, namespaces: 1, repositories: private

- 500 functions
- Private registries
- Fine-tuned autoscaling
- Scale to Zero
- Event triggers: Kafka, RabbitMQ, GCP Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, AWS SNS/SQS
- Queue-worker with JetStream
- Retry failed messages
- New UI dashboard
- Grafana Dashboards
- Custom Resource (CRD) management
- Air-gapped / offline usage
- Istio/Linkerd compatibility
- Email support

### OpenFaaS for Enterprises (Contact sales)

Highest level of service for enterprises and multi-tenant hosting. Upgraded support, compliance & multi-tenancy features for large-scale organisations and SaaS teams.

**Included limits:** functions: 5000 per namespace, namespaces: unlimited

- 5000 functions per namespace
- Unlimited namespaces
- Developer licenses
- Business day support with SLA
- Direct to Engineering Support (Slack)
- Annual architecture review
- Security advisories
- Queue-based autoscaling
- Multi-tenancy with gVisor isolation
- Function Builder API
- Dedicated async queues
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Web Identity Federation for CI/CD
- Auditing via webhook

## About

Serverless functions platform deployed to Kubernetes with full control, portability, and commercial support. Deploy code on-premises or in the cloud in any language with autoscaling to zero.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Hybrid, On-premise, Air-gapped, Self-hosted

## Integrations (7)

_Independently observed._

- Apache Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- AWS SQS/SNS
- GCP Pub/Sub
- PostgreSQL
- MQTT
- Cron

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Serverless & Edge Platforms. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Core** | |
| Execution substrate | Container |
| **Reach** | |
| Runs at global edge PoPs | ✗ |
| **Scale** | |
| Scale to zero | ✓ |
| **Performance** | |
| Cold-start profile | - |
| **Core** | |
| Language / runtime breadth | Any language |
| **Limits** | |
| Max execution duration | - |
| **Integration** | |
| Event source breadth | HTTP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, GCP Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, MQTT, Cron |
| HTTP endpoint trigger | ✓ |
| Cron / scheduled invocations | ✓ |
| **State** | |
| Durable state / workflow primitive | ✓ |
| **Flexibility** | |
| Bring-your-own runtime / container | ✓ |
| **Deployment** | |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Ops** | |
| Built-in logs / metrics / tracing | ✓ |
| **Extensibility** | |
| CLI + IaC / framework support | ✓ |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### activity

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| activity.commits_last_30d | 0 | [link](https://github.com/openfaas/faas/pulse) | 2026-08-01 | 65% (medium) |

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.github_stars | 26,202 | [link](https://github.com/openfaas/faas) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 8 | [link](https://www.openfaas.com/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### language

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language.primary | Go | [link](https://github.com/openfaas/faas) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.openfaas.com/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://www.openfaas.com/) | 2026-08-01 | 70% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | high | [link](https://www.openfaas.com/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 1,250 | [link](https://www.openfaas.com/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://www.openfaas.com/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### release

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| release.cadence_days | 136 | [link](https://github.com/openfaas/faas/releases) | 2026-08-01 | 70% (medium) |

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