Convox vs Tau
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison space
Updated
Comparison facts
Platform
Hosting model
BYOC
Supported
BYOC
Not supported
Managed
Supported
Managed
Not supported
Self-Hosted
Not supported
Self-Hosted
Supported
Open source / license
Apache License 2.0
Open source / license
bsd-3-clause
Services
CDN
Not supported
CDN
Supported
Compute
Supported
Compute
Not supported
Functions
Not supported
Functions
Supported
Infrastructure Automation
Supported
Infrastructure Automation
Not supported
Key-Value Store
Not supported
Key-Value Store
Supported
Managed Databases
Supported
Managed Databases
Not supported
Object Storage
Not supported
Object Storage
Supported
Queues
Not supported
Queues
Supported
Workloads
AI Inference
Supported
AI Inference
Not supported
APIs
Supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Real-Time Applications
Not supported
Real-Time Applications
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Static Sites
Not supported
Static Sites
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Not recorded
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Not recorded
Preview Environments
Supported
Preview Environments
Not recorded
Scale to Zero
Supported
Scale to Zero
Not recorded
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Supported
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Not recorded
Development & Execution
Deployment & packaging
Bare metal / VM
Not supported
Bare metal / VM
Supported
Docker / OCI
Supported
Docker / OCI
Not supported
Kubernetes
Supported
Kubernetes
Not supported
Local Emulator
Not supported
Local Emulator
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Not supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
Custom Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Not supported
WebAssembly
Not supported
WebAssembly
Supported
Languages
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
Java
Supported
Java
Not supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
PHP
Supported
PHP
Not supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Ruby
Not supported
Rust
Not supported
Rust
Supported
TypeScript
Not supported
TypeScript
Supported
Frameworks
Django
Supported
Django
Unknown
Express.js
Supported
Express.js
Unknown
Laravel
Supported
Laravel
Unknown
Next.js
Supported
Next.js
Unknown
Ruby on Rails
Supported
Ruby on Rails
Unknown
Spring Boot
Supported
Spring Boot
Unknown
Pricing
Billing basis
Plan based
Plan based
Software charge
$199 / month
Tau is free to self-host; users fund compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backups, and operations.
Starting price
$199 / month
Unknown
Free entry / commitment
Free plan
Free plan
Infrastructure & Availability
Infrastructure provider
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- DigitalOcean
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- DigitalOcean
- Customer-operated bare-metal, virtual-machine, sovereign-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Supported providers
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- DigitalOcean
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- DigitalOcean
- Customer-operated bare-metal, virtual-machine, sovereign-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Placement control
- Regional
Unknown
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
Fine-grained role-based access control
Auth service authentication, authorization, and repository-to-project mapping
Single Sign-On
SAML
Unknown
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Environment variables and Kubernetes Secrets
Deployment keys, webhook secrets, and X.509 certificates
Encryption at Rest
AWS-managed EBS encryption
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates and authenticated encrypted node traffic
Network isolation & protection
Network Isolation
Application namespaces and VPC controls
Unknown
IP Allow List
CIDR service whitelist
Unknown
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
Eligible use
Unknown