IBM Cloud Code Engine vs OCI Functions
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison space
Updated
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
Resource based
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
Memory
48,000 MB
128-3,072 MB
Concurrency
1,000
Unknown
Request payload
5 MB
6 MB
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
IBM Cloud IAM and resource-level RBAC
OCI IAM policies and compartments
Audit Logging
Activity Tracker Event Routing
OCI Audit API events
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Project secrets for apps, jobs, and functions
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
Managed HTTPS certificates and TLS 1.2+
Unknown
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Private endpoints and context-based restrictions
Private subnet and OCI service-gateway access
Network Isolation
Project isolation based on Kubernetes namespaces
Zero Trust Packet Routing and network security policies