IBM Cloud Code Engine Pricing, Features & Alternatives

IBM Cloud Code Engine, successor to the now deprecated IBM Cloud Functions, is a fully managed serverless platform. Simply bring your container images, batch jobs, source code, or functions, and Code Engine will handle the management and security of the underlying infrastructure. You won’t need to size, deploy, or scale container clusters yourself, nor do you need any networking skills.

Focus

Following the latest trend, like Google Cloud Run, IBM Code Engine steps in as a container platform that supports both serverless and traditional conatiner deployments. Code Engine automates application lifecycle management, scaling, and resource allocation, catering to broader application needs compared to the more event-driven focus of IBM Cloud Functions.

Key Features

• Applications: Runs your code to serve HTTP requests. An application has a URL for incoming requests. The number of running instances are automatically scaled.

• Jobs: Runs one or more instances of your executable code in parallel, designed to run one time and exit.

• Functions: A stateless code snippet that performs tasks in response to an HTTP request.

Pricing

Free Plan

• 100,000 vCPU seconds per month

• 200,000 GB seconds per month

• 100,000 incoming HTTP requests per month

Pricing Model

You are billed per resource consumption beyond the monthly free tier.

• CPU: $0.00003431 per vCPU-second

• Memory: $0.00000356 per GB-second

• Incoming requests: $0.538 per 1 million HTTP requests