| Vercel | Features | Digital Ocean Functions |
|---|---|---|
| Functions / Serverless | ||
| Node.js, Go, Python, Ruby | Functions supported languages | Go, Javascript, Php, Python |
| Worker.js Environment | ||
| Docker support | ||
| Docker private registry | ||
| Kubernetes support | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| 23 Edge locations | Availability regions | New York, USA and Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1024 | Default Memory (MB) | |
| 3008 | Maximum Memory (MB) | |
| 10,000 | Execution Time (ms) | |
| 900,000 | Maximum Execution Time (ms) | |
| 5 | Request Payload (MB) | |
| 5 | Response Payload (MB) | |
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | ||
Formerly known as ZEIT, Vercel has a lot to offer in the serverless movement.
ZEIT was one of the pioneering companies at the time pushing Serverless technology. ZEIT’s first focus was to ease deployments, which resulted in the creation of Next.js.
Some of Vercel’s customers include AirBnB, Auth0, GitHub and the Washington Post.
Vercel announced a whopping $21M Series A funding early 2020.
Digital Ocean has earned users trust over the many years of service. Founded in 2011, and already traded publically on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021. Digital Ocean has a great blog with many useful articles, which is why they are so well known in the developer community.
Once the underdog, and now David turned Goliath, Digital Ocean offers it all and has truly grown into a major market player when it comes to cloud infrastructure on a global scale.
Digital Ocean Functions offers seamless database integration and offers support for a couple of unique features like unit testing for your Functions. Interestingly Digital Ocean is one of the first Functions providers who are verbal on which version of prograamming language they support. Some programming languages like Python are backward incompatible. DO’s Functions supports Python 3.
Noteworthy customers of Digital Ocean Functions are currently unknown.
