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Comparison

IBM Cloud Code Engine vs OCI Functions

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

Comparison space

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Comparison facts

Platform

Hosting model
Managed
Supported
Managed
Supported
Services
Compute
Supported
Compute
Not supported
Functions
Supported
Functions
Supported
GPU Compute
Supported
GPU Compute
Not supported
Workloads
APIs
Supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Data Processing
Supported
Data Processing
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Web Applications
Not supported
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Supported
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Not recorded

Development & Execution

Deployment & packaging
Docker / OCI
Supported
Docker / OCI
Supported
Kubernetes
Supported
Kubernetes
Not supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
Supported
.NET Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
JVM
Supported
JVM
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Languages
C#
Supported
C#
Supported
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
Java
Supported
Java
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
PHP
Supported
PHP
Not supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Rust
Supported
Rust
Not supported
TypeScript
Supported
TypeScript
Not supported
Triggers
Database Events
Not supported
Database Events
Supported
Direct Invocation
Not supported
Direct Invocation
Supported
Event Streams
Supported
Event Streams
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Not supported
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Storage Events
Supported
Storage Events
Supported

Pricing

Billing basis
Resource based IBM Cloud Code Engine Usage
Resource based OCI Functions Usage
Requests / executions
  • Incoming HTTP requests — $0.538 · per 1 million HTTP requests
  • Invocations — US$0.0000002 · per function invocation
Compute
  • vCPU time — $0.00003431 · per vCPU-second
  • Memory time — $0.00000356 · per GB-second
  • Memory execution time — US$0.00001417 · per gigabyte memory-second
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances
Recurring free allowances

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • IBM Cloud
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
  • 11 Regions
  • 44 Regions

Resource & Execution Limits

Execution time
Unknown
30-300 seconds Synchronous invocation
Memory
48,000 MB Per function
128-3,072 MB Per function
Concurrency
1,000 Per instance
Unknown
Request payload
5 MB Request and response
6 MB Per invocation

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
IBM Cloud IAM and resource-level RBAC Code Engine project
OCI IAM policies and compartments Function management, invocation, and dependent resources
Audit Logging
Activity Tracker Event Routing Location-based Code Engine audit events
OCI Audit API events Tenancy control plane; function logs separately enabled
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Project secrets for apps, jobs, and functions Authorized project users can view; documentation states encoded storage
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
Managed HTTPS certificates and TLS 1.2+ Code Engine API and application endpoints
Unknown
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Private endpoints and context-based restrictions Project and region support required
Private subnet and OCI service-gateway access Customer VCN configuration
Network Isolation
Project isolation based on Kubernetes namespaces Code Engine-managed
Zero Trust Packet Routing and network security policies Customer configuration; ZPR and NSG rules both apply