Serverless Framework
Deploy APIs, scheduled tasks, workflows and event-driven apps to AWS Lambda easily
- Also known as
- serverless-framework
What is Serverless Framework?
Open source serverless framework for building and deploying applications on AWS Lambda with built-in development, debugging, and collaboration tools.
Serverless Framework pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free for individuals and small teams. Pay-as-you-go at $4/credit or reserved annual plans from $1/credit.
Pay-As-You-Go
Pay for credits monthly as you use them
Reserved Credits
Reserve monthly credits through annual contracts for discounts
- Up to 74% off with 1 year commitment
- Up to 77% off with 2 year commitment
- Up to 80% off with 3 year commitment
- Additional 10% off if pay upfront
- Additional 35% off for small business (<$5M revenue, <30 employees, <$5M raised)
What Serverless Framework does
The capabilities that matter for serverless & edge platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Execution substrate
- -
- Language / runtime breadth
- -
- Runs at global edge PoPs
- -
- Scale to zero
- -
- Cold-start profile
- -
- Max execution duration
- -
- Event source breadth
- -
- HTTP endpoint trigger
- ✓
- Cron / scheduled invocations
- ✓
- Durable state / workflow primitive
- -
- Bring-your-own runtime / container
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
- ✓
- CLI + IaC / framework support
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Serverless Framework alternatives
Other serverless & edge platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Vercel FunctionsRun server-side code without managing serverslow · 49%
- Deno DeployOne simple platform for all your JavaScript and TypeScript applicationslow · 45%
- Cloudflare WorkersDeploy serverless functions globally in secondslow · 30%
- Vercel Edge Runtimemedium · 55%
- FissionOpen Source Kubernetes-native Serverless Frameworklow · 24%
- Fastly Computelow · 37%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Serverless Framework, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 80 | 26.00 | 2086.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 61 | 18.00 | 1093.4 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 45 | 22.00 | 990.0 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 93 | 10.00 | 927.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 12.00 | 805.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 88 | 5.00 | 440.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 84 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","cli_and_iac":true,"http_trigger":true,"scheduled_cron":true,"observability_builtin":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | JavaScript | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 13 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |