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Comparison

Google Cloud Run functions vs IBM Cloud Code Engine

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
Managed
Managed
Services
Compute
Compute
Functions
Functions
GPU Compute
GPU Compute
Workloads
APIs
APIs
Backend Services
Backend Services
Background Workers
Background Workers
Data Processing
Data Processing
Scheduled Jobs
Scheduled Jobs
Web Applications
Web Applications
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Preview Environments
Preview Environments
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments

Development & Execution

Deployment & packaging
Docker / OCI
Docker / OCI
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Local Emulator
Local Emulator
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
.NET Runtime
Custom Runtime
Custom Runtime
JVM
JVM
Node.js
Node.js
Languages
C#
C#
Go
Go
Java
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Python
Python
Ruby
Ruby
Rust
Rust
TypeScript
TypeScript
Triggers
Database Events
Database Events
Event Streams
Event Streams
HTTP Requests
HTTP Requests
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Queue Messages
Queue Messages
Scheduled Invocation
Scheduled Invocation
Storage Events
Storage Events

Pricing

Billing basis
Resource based Cloud Run Functions First-Generation Usage
Resource based IBM Cloud Code Engine Usage
Requests / executions
  • Invocations — $0.40 · per 1 million invocations
  • Incoming HTTP requests — $0.538 · per 1 million HTTP requests
Compute
  • Memory time — $0.0000025 · per GB-second
  • CPU time — $0.0000100 · per GHz-second
  • vCPU time — $0.00003431 · per vCPU-second
  • Memory time — $0.00000356 · per GB-second
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances
Recurring free allowances

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • IBM Cloud
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
  • 43 Regions
  • 11 Regions

Resource & Execution Limits

Execution time
60 minutes 2nd gen HTTP function
Unknown
Memory
32 GiB 2nd gen function
48,000 MB Per function
Concurrency
Unknown
1,000 Per instance
Request payload
32 MB 2nd gen HTTP function
5 MB Request and response

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Function-level IAM and authenticated invocation Role differs for 1st gen and Cloud Run-based functions
IBM Cloud IAM and resource-level RBAC Code Engine project
Audit Logging
Cloud Audit Logs Management coverage; data-access classes may require configuration
Activity Tracker Event Routing Location-based Code Engine audit events
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
Customer-managed encryption keys Supported build and runtime resources; customer configuration
Unknown
Secrets Management
Unknown
Project secrets for apps, jobs, and functions Authorized project users can view; documentation states encoded storage
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
Managed HTTPS certificates and TLS 1.2+ Code Engine API and application endpoints
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
VPC Service Controls perimeter and VPC egress Customer organization and network configuration
Private endpoints and context-based restrictions Project and region support required
Network Isolation
Unknown
Project isolation based on Kubernetes namespaces Code Engine-managed
Assurances & programs
FedRAMP
FedRAMP High Authorized service and region/configuration scope
Unknown
HIPAA
HIPAA-eligible use Google Cloud BAA and customer controls required
Unknown