Best AWS Lambda Alternatives (2026): 10+ options compared
The table lists tools that share a category with AWS Lambda, picked from the highest scoring and listed closest matches first: most shared categories, then the most of AWS Lambda's features in those categories, then the most audiences both suit, then our score. Each score is for the category that alternative shares with AWS Lambda. The tools ranked just above and below AWS Lambda in Hosting & Infrastructure are listed further down. Costs are estimates for monthly billing based on each tool's listed plans. Our methodology
| # | Tool | Score | Free tier | Starting price | Est. monthly cost | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A AWS Lambda (current) | 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree tier | ||
| 1 | A Amazon CloudFrontAmazon CloudFront is the AWS content delivery network. It caches and serves websites, APIs and media from more than 750 edge locations, and includes DDoS protection, WAF and edge compute.
| 7.9/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | $15/mo | FreeFree (flat-rate) | |
| 2 |  Amazon's public cloud platform, with over 200 pay-as-you-go services for compute, storage, databases, networking and AI, used by startups through large enterprises and governments.
| 7.9/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree plan | |
| 3 | A Amazon ECSAmazon Elastic Container Service is AWS's fully managed container orchestrator. Teams use it to run Docker workloads on EC2, serverless Fargate, or their own on-premises hardware.
| 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | No | Contact sales | FreeECS on EC2 (orchestration) | |
| 4 | A AWS AmplifyAWS Amplify is a pay-as-you-go platform from Amazon Web Services for hosting web apps from Git and building full-stack backends on AWS.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree Tier | |
| 5 |  Baseten is an AI inference platform that lets engineering teams serve, scale and train open-weight and custom models on managed multi-cloud GPUs, billed per minute.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | No | Contact sales | Contact for pricing | |
| 6 |  Neon is a managed serverless PostgreSQL service with autoscaling, scale-to-zero and instant database branching, aimed at developers, startups and SaaS teams.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree | |
| 7 |  Enterprise Kubernetes application platform from Red Hat, offered as self-managed software or as managed services on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeDeveloper Sandbox | |
| 8 | A Amazon S3Amazon S3 is AWS's pay-as-you-go object storage service. Businesses use it to store files, backups, data lakes and static website assets at almost any scale.
| 7.8/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | No | Contact sales | Contact for pricing | |
| 9 |  Google's public cloud platform providing pay-as-you-go virtual machines, Kubernetes, serverless, databases, storage, networking, data analytics and AI services for businesses of every size.
| 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree Trial | |
| 10 | A Amazon EC2Amazon EC2 is AWS's on-demand virtual server service, offering resizable compute instances billed per second for businesses of any size.
| 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree Tier | |
| 11 | C Cloud RunGoogle Cloud's fully managed serverless platform for running containers, functions, batch jobs, and GPU workloads, scaling automatically and billed by usage.
| 7.4/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree tier | |
| 12 |  Northflank is a Kubernetes-based developer platform for deploying services, jobs, databases and GPU workloads on its managed cloud or on customers' own cloud accounts.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeSandbox | |
| 13 |  Cloudinary is a cloud media platform that stores, transforms, optimizes and delivers images and video through a CDN for developers and marketing teams.
| 7.2/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | $99/mo | Contact for pricing | |
| 14 | G Google App EngineGoogle App Engine is a fully managed platform for deploying web apps and APIs on Google Cloud, with automatic scaling and no server management.
| 7.1/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | Contact sales | FreeStandard environment free quota | |
| 15 |  Supabase is an open-source backend platform built on managed Postgres. It bundles auth, file storage, edge functions, and realtime for developers building web and mobile apps.
| 7.1/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Yes | $25/mo | FreeFree |
Prices from each vendor's published plans, last updated November 2026. How we collect prices
Free alternatives to AWS Lambda
- AAmazon CloudFrontFree plan, no user limit listedAmazon CloudFront pricing
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Free plan, no user limit listedAmazon Web Services (AWS) pricing
- AAWS AmplifyFree plan, no user limit listedAWS Amplify pricing
- NeonFree plan, no user limit listedNeon pricing
- Red Hat OpenShiftFree plan, no user limit listedRed Hat OpenShift pricing
- Google CloudFree plan, no user limit listedGoogle Cloud pricing
- AAmazon EC2Free plan, no user limit listedAmazon EC2 pricing
- CCloud RunFree plan, no user limit listedCloud Run pricing
- NorthflankFree plan, no user limit listedNorthflank pricing
- CloudinaryFree for up to 3 usersCloudinary pricing
- GGoogle App EngineFree plan, no user limit listedGoogle App Engine pricing
- SupabaseFree plan, no user limit listedSupabase pricing
Ranked near AWS Lambda in Hosting & Infrastructure
AWS Lambda is #7 in Hosting & Infrastructure by our score. These are the tools ranked just above and below it that the table above does not list. See AWS Lambda in the Hosting & Infrastructure list
| Rank | Tool | Score | Starting price | Cost for 10 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #6 |  | 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | $5/mo | FreeFree |
| #8 |  | 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | $49/mo | FreeOpen Source |
| #10 | G Google Cloud Storage | 7.6/10in Hosting & Infrastructure | Contact sales | FreeAlways Free |
AWS Lambda alternatives FAQs
Amazon CloudFront is the closest match to AWS Lambda on our list, with a score of 7.9/10 on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria. Where it beats AWS Lambda: higher Customization score (9/10 vs 7/10).
Yes. The closest matches with a free plan are Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Amplify.
AWS Lambda is the cheapest of the tools listed here for 10 users: free on its Free tier plan. The cheapest alternative, Amazon CloudFront, costs the same.
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon S3 score higher than AWS Lambda, each in the category it shares with AWS Lambda: Amazon CloudFront 7.9/10 against 7.6/10 in Hosting & Infrastructure; Amazon Web Services (AWS) 7.9/10 against 7.6/10 in Hosting & Infrastructure; Amazon S3 7.8/10 against 7.6/10 in Hosting & Infrastructure.