Netlify Functions

Who it is for

For developers and individuals. It runs on the web. License: Proprietary. It is in the Infrastructure group.

What you pay

Free plan: Free is $0 and includes 300 credits, functions, blob storage, and Netlify Database. Scheduled functions are on every plan. Personal is $9 a month with 1,000 credits. Pro is $20 a month with 3,000 credits. A scheduled function stops at 30 seconds. Production deploys cost 15 credits each. Hosted price: Free is $0 with 300 credits. Personal is $9 a month. Pro is $20 a month. Checked November 11, 2026. The pricing page lists compute at 10 credits per GB-hour, bandwidth at 20 credits per GB, and web requests at 2 credits per 10,000. A database that is active consumes credits. The database page, updated June 16, 2026, said storage space is free until July 1, 2026. This listing did not find a storage price after that date. It does not run on a computer you control. Functions run on Netlify. This listing did not find an install of the hosted product.

How to switch

• Compared with Val Town. Its price on file: Billing paused on November 10, 2026. Existing subscriptions are serviced free. A prepaid annual plan gets a partial refund. The post does not print a dollar price.

  What you give up: edit the code in the browser. You only get part of: a SQLite database for the app.

  Free alternatives to Val Town

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

• 85
  Instead of Val Town7 of 7 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: edit the code in the browser. You only get part of: a SQLite database for the app.The functions overview shows a TypeScript handler that returns a Response and sets a path such as /hello.The same overview uses .mts files. The scheduled-functions page says an inline cron expression works for TypeScript and JavaScript.Scheduled Functions are on every plan and use a cron expression in UTC. A run stops at 30 seconds, and scheduled functions do not run on their schedule for deploy previews.Netlify Database is managed Postgres. The functions overview queries it with SQL. A Val Town SQLite dump is not a Postgres database.The blobs page says you can store and retrieve blobs, and browse and download them in the UI. The pricing page lists blob storage on the free plan.The environment-variable page says values can be limited to Functions and can differ by deploy context. It says the key is stored on Netlify when you use the UI, CLI, or API.Functions deploy with the site from git. The pages checked here do not show a browser editor that holds the function the way a val does.

Related alternatives

Infrastructure alternatives

• Free alternatives to Auth0
• Free alternatives to Glitch
• Free alternatives to Heroku
• Free alternatives to Val Town
• Cloudflare Workers: TypeScript on Cloudflare's network, with cron, D1, and R2. The free plan allows 10 ms of CPU.
• Coolify: A place you run yourself for apps and databases.

Free apps in this group

• Authelia: Two-factor login in front of your apps.
• Authentik: An identity provider with an MIT core.
• CapRover: A PaaS with a web UI and Let's Encrypt.
• Cloudflare Workers: TypeScript on Cloudflare's network, with cron, D1, and R2. The free plan allows 10 ms of CPU.
• Coolify: A place you run yourself for apps and databases.
• Dokku: A small PaaS on one Linux host.
• Keycloak: Hosted login, OIDC, SAML, and a user directory.
• Kubero: A PaaS panel on Kubernetes.
• Render: A Node web service and a cron job. Free services spin down. No object storage on the price page.
• SuperTokens: Login recipes with an Apache core.
• Vercel Functions: TypeScript functions, cron, and Blob on Vercel. Hobby cron runs once a day. No SQLite product.
• Windmill: An AGPL script runner with a web IDE, schedules, and webhooks. Not a site host.
• YunoHost: A server distribution with an app catalog.
• Zitadel: An identity server written in Go.

Where we looked

• https://www.netlify.com/pricing/
• https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/overview/
• https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/scheduled-functions/
• https://docs.netlify.com/build/data-and-storage/netlify-blobs/
• https://docs.netlify.com/build/data-and-storage/netlify-database/
• https://docs.netlify.com/build/environment-variables/overview/