Cloudflare Workers vs DigitalOcean Functions

Compare Service Types, Runtimes, Execution Limits, Compliance, Regions and Alternatives

Features

Cloudflare Workers
Service Types

Functions
Database
Edge Compute

DigitalOcean Functions
Service Types

Functions
Database
Edge Compute

Cloudflare Workers
Functions Runtimes

Go
JavaScript
Node.js
PHP
Python
Rust
TypeScript
Wasm

DigitalOcean Functions
Functions Runtimes

Go
JavaScript
Node.js
PHP
Python
Rust
TypeScript
Wasm

Cloudflare Workers
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

Min. Memory
128 MB
Max. Memory
128 MB
Default Timeout
10 s
Max. Timeout
50 s
Request Payload
N/A
Response Payload
N/A

DigitalOcean Functions
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

Min. Memory
128 MB
Max. Memory
1 GB
Default Timeout
3 s
Max. Timeout
15 min
Request Payload
5 MB
Response Payload
5 MB

Cloudflare Workers
Compliance

APEC CBPR PRP
CSA STAR Level 1
ISO 14001
ISO 27001
ISO 50001
PCI-DSS
SOC 1 Type II
SOC 2 Type II
SOC 3 Type II

DigitalOcean Functions
Compliance

APEC CBPR PRP
CSA STAR Level 1
ISO 14001
ISO 27001
ISO 50001
PCI-DSS
SOC 1 Type II
SOC 2 Type II
SOC 3 Type II

Cloudflare Workers
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Points of Presence
200

DigitalOcean Functions
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Regional
Points of Presence
N/A

Alternatives are matched on service types, programming languages and container support

Compare Features, Languages, Execution Limits and Alternatives

Service Types

Installable Platform
Functions
Containers
Database
PaaS
IaC
Edge Compute
Local Emulator
API as a Service

Functions Runtimes

Go
JavaScript
Node.js
PHP
Python
Rust
TypeScript
Wasm

Container Runtimes

Docker
Docker Private Registry
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes

Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

128 MB
Min. Memory
128 MB
128 MB
Max. Memory
1 GB
10 s
Default Timeout
3 s
50 s
Max. Timeout
15 min
Request Payload
5 MB
Response Payload
5 MB

Compliance

Certificates

Regional Availability

Global
Deployment Scope
Regional
Regions
200
Points of Presence

Sustainabilty

Green Energy