DigitalOcean Functions vs Vercel
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison space
Updated
Comparison facts
Platform
Hosting model
Managed
Supported
Managed
Supported
Services
CDN
Not supported
CDN
Supported
Compute
Not supported
Compute
Supported
Databases
Not supported
Databases
Supported
Functions
Supported
Functions
Supported
Key-Value Store
Not supported
Key-Value Store
Supported
Object Storage
Not supported
Object Storage
Supported
Workflows
Not supported
Workflows
Supported
Workloads
AI Inference
Not supported
AI Inference
Supported
APIs
Supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Background Workers
Not supported
Edge Request Processing
Not supported
Edge Request Processing
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
Not supported
Web Applications
Supported
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Not recorded
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Not recorded
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Supported
Preview Environments
Not recorded
Preview Environments
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Scale to Zero
Not recorded
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Not recorded
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Supported
Development & Execution
Deployment & packaging
Local Emulator
Supported
Local Emulator
Not supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
Bun
Not supported
Bun
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Node.js
Supported
V8 Isolates
Not supported
V8 Isolates
Supported
WebAssembly
Not supported
WebAssembly
Supported
Languages
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
PHP
Supported
PHP
Not supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Not supported
Ruby
Supported
Rust
Not supported
Rust
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
Triggers
Direct Invocation
Supported
Direct Invocation
Not supported
Edge Events
Not supported
Edge Events
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Pricing
Billing basis
Resource based
Plan based
Requests / executions
Unknown
- Edge Requests — From $2 · per additional million requests
- Fluid compute invocations — $0.60 · per additional million invocations
Compute
- Compute — $0.0000185 · per GiB-second beyond the monthly allowance
- Fluid compute Active CPU — From $0.128 · per CPU-hour
- Fluid compute provisioned memory — From $0.0106 · per GB-hour
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances
Free plan
Infrastructure & Availability
Infrastructure provider
- DigitalOcean
- Amazon Web Services
Execution & placement
- Execution: Single Region
- Scope: Regional
- Execution: Single Region
- Execution: Multi Region
- Placement: Customer-Selected
Availability footprint
Unknown
- Vercel Functions: 20 Regions
- Vercel CDN: 126+ PoPs (Lower Bound)
Resource & Execution Limits
Execution time
15 minutes
Unknown
Memory
128 MB-1 GB
Unknown
Concurrency
120
Unknown
Request payload
1 MB input / 1 MB result
4.5 MB
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
Revocable namespace access keys and authenticated web functions
Team and project roles
Single Sign-On
Unknown
SAML
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
Function code and sensitive parameters
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
HTTPS/TLS function endpoints
Unknown
Secrets Management
Unknown
Encrypted environment variables
Network isolation & protection
Network Isolation
Dedicated networking and compute safeguards
Secure Compute private isolated environment
Assurances & programs
SOC Reports
SOC 2 Type II
SOC 2 Type II
HIPAA
Unknown
Eligible use