DigitalOcean Functions

Functions 4.7/10

Pay-per-use: $0.0000185/GiB-second of memory+runtime. Free allowance of 90,000 GiB-seconds (25 GiB-hours)/month per team across all functions. No per-request fee.

DigitalOcean Functions scores 4.7/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Free allowance of 90,000 GiB-seconds (25 GiB-hours)/month per team across all functions, no per-request fee; then pay-per-use $0.0000185/GiB-second of memory+runtime.

Category Functions Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.7 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.7/10

value = 4.7/100

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Invocation value 1/10

value = 0.01 $/mo

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Runtime fit 8/10

value = 8/100

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Deploy friction 8.8/10

value = 8.8/100

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Key metrics

$18.5n/GB-s

90k GiB-s

25 GiB-h

What you get

Free allowance of 90,000 GiB-seconds (25 GiB-hours)/month per team across all functions, no per-request fee; then pay-per-use $0.0000185/GiB-second of memory+runtime.

~54,000 GiB-seconds (~15 GiB-hours) per $1. Simple flat rate with no per-request fee makes light workloads very cheap; large free allowance.

Gotchas

No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.

Sources

"The monthly free allowance includes 90,000 GiB-seconds for the account/team."
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/functions
"$0.0000185 per GiB-seconds for additional memory and runtime."
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/functions

paid value serverless-functions

Open service ← All Functions

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