Azure Functions

Functions 4.0/10

Flex Consumption: $0.000004/GB-s idle baseline and $0.000016/GB-s execution, plus $0.40/M executions. Free grant of 250,000 executions and 100,000 GB-s/month per subscription.

Card required: Yes

Azure Functions scores 4/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Paid — $0.000016 per GB-s execution + $0.40 per 1M executions. Flex Consumption: $0.000004/GB-s idle baseline and $0.000016/GB-s execution, plus $0.40/M executions. Free grant of 250,000 executions and 100,000 GB-s/month per subscription.

Category Functions Kind Paid plan Renewal monthly Card required Yes Eligibility anyone

Free value score

4.0 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4/10

value = 4/100

weighted_components_v1

Invocation value 1/10

value = 0.01 $/mo

fixed_log_v1

Runtime fit 6.6/10

value = 6.6/100

policy_score_v1

Deploy friction 7.5/10

value = 7.5/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

$16n/GB-s

$0.40/M ex

What you get

Paid — $0.000016 per GB-s execution + $0.40 per 1M executions. Flex Consumption: $0.000004/GB-s idle baseline and $0.000016/GB-s execution, plus $0.40/M executions. Free grant of 250,000 executions and 100,000 GB-s/month per subscription.

~2.5M executions per $1; ~62,500 GB-seconds per $1 of execution time. Free grant covers light workloads entirely.

Gotchas

Free grant of executions/GB-s

Flex Consumption includes a monthly free grant of executions and GB-seconds; overage is $0.000016/GB-s execution plus $0.40 per 1M executions.
Azure billing account required

Requires an Azure subscription with a payment method on file.
Cold starts on scale-from-zero

Flex Consumption scales to zero and cold-starts on the next request unless an idle baseline is provisioned.

Sources

"Flex consumption plan pricing includes a monthly free grant of 250,000 executions and 100,000 GB-s of resource consumption per month per subscription"
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/
"Baseline: $0.000004 per GB-second (first 100,000 GB-s per month free) · Execution Time: $0.000016 per GB-second"
https://modal.com/blog/azure-function-pricing-guide

paid value serverless-functions

Open service Source ← All Functions

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