Vercel 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: Hobby is $0 a month. It includes 1 million function invocations, 4 hours of Fluid active CPU, 360 GB-hours of provisioned memory, and 1 GB of Blob storage a month. Pro is $20 a month. Hobby cron jobs run at most once a day. Pro cron jobs can run once a minute. Hosted price: Hobby is $0 a month. Pro is $20 a month. Checked November 11, 2026. Hobby Blob limits on the pricing page are 1 GB, 10,000 simple operations, 2,000 advanced operations, and 10 GB of data transfer a month. Cron jobs are included and then billed as function invocations. It does not run on a computer you control. Functions run on Vercel. 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: a SQLite database for the app and edit the code in the browser.

  Free alternatives to Val Town

How close is it?

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

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  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: a SQLite database for the app and edit the code in the browser.The functions docs show a fetch handler and a GET route that return a Response.Those samples are TypeScript. The docs list Node.js, Python, Go, and other runtimes.Cron jobs are on every plan and invoke a function. Hobby is limited to once a day, with timing inside the hour. Pro can run once a minute.The pricing page lists Blob and Functions and does not list SQLite. Val Town's where-to-migrate table, updated November 7, 2026, leaves SQLite unchecked for Vercel.Hobby includes 1 GB of Blob storage a month, plus 10,000 simple operations and 2,000 advanced operations.Environment variables can be Config or Secret. The docs say function execution can read them, and a change applies to the next deployment.The functions docs deploy code from the project. They do not show a browser editor that stores 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
• Dokku: A small PaaS on one Linux host.
• Keycloak: Hosted login, OIDC, SAML, and a user directory.

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.
• Netlify Functions: TypeScript functions, scheduled functions, and blobs. The built-in database is Postgres.
• 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.
• 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://vercel.com/pricing
• https://vercel.com/docs/functions
• https://vercel.com/docs/schedules/cron-jobs/usage-and-pricing
• https://vercel.com/docs/environment-variables