Vercel Functions
Run server-side code without managing servers
- Also known as
- vercel-functions
What is Vercel Functions?
Serverless function execution platform with usage-based billing across multiple global regions and programming language runtimes.
Vercel Functions 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 Hobby tier with monthly included usage; Pro tier with usage-based billing
Hobby
Free- active_cpu
- 4 hours/month
- invocations
- 1 million/month
- provisioned_memory
- 360 GB-hrs/month
Pro
Pay-per-use consumption beyond Hobby plan limits
What Vercel Functions 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
- Node.js, Bun, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, Wasm
- Runs at global edge PoPs
- ✓
- Scale to zero
- ✓
- Cold-start profile
- -
- Max execution duration
- -
- Event source breadth
- HTTP, Cron Jobs, WebSockets
- HTTP endpoint trigger
- ✓
- Cron / scheduled invocations
- ✓
- Durable state / workflow primitive
- -
- Bring-your-own runtime / container
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
- ✓
- CLI + IaC / framework support
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Vercel Functions alternatives
Other serverless & edge platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Deno DeployOne simple platform for all your JavaScript and TypeScript applicationslow · 45%
- Cloudflare WorkersDeploy serverless functions globally in secondslow · 30%
- Serverless FrameworkDeploy APIs, scheduled tasks, workflows and event-driven apps to AWS Lambda easilymedium · 50%
- 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 Vercel Functions, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 30.00 | 2985.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 100 | 22.00 | 2200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 12.00 | 973.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 12.00 | 960.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 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.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","triggers":"HTTP, Cron Jobs, WebSockets","languages":"Node.js, Bun, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, Wasm","cli_and_iac":true,"http_trigger":true,"scale_to_zero":true,"scheduled_cron":true,"edge_distributed":true,"observability_builtin":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |