DigitalOcean Functions vs. Google Cloud Functions

DigitalOcean Functions

Google Cloud Functions

10 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Functions	N/A	N/A	DigitalOcean Functions is a serverless computing solution that runs on-demand, enabling users to focus on code, scale instantly with confidence, and save costs by eliminating the need to maintain servers. Users can invoke functions (snippets of code) in response to web events, and are charged when resources are active, or scale up or down instantly and automatically based on demand without the need for pre-provisioned resources.	N/A
Google Cloud Functions	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Google Cloud Functions enables users to run code in the cloud with no servers or containers to manage. Cloud Functions is a scalable, pay-as-you-go functions as a service (FaaS) product to help build and connect event driven services with simple, single purpose code.	N/A

Pricing

DigitalOcean Functions

Google Cloud Functions

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Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Functions	Google Cloud Functions
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Functions	Google Cloud Functions
Small Businesses	IBM Cloud Functions Score8 out of 10	IBM Cloud Functions Score8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	AWS Lambda Score8.6 out of 10	AWS Lambda Score8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	AWS Lambda Score8.6 out of 10	AWS Lambda Score8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Functions	Google Cloud Functions
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Functions	Google Cloud Functions
Likelihood to Recommend	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	Google Google Cloud Platform Cloud functions are an excellent way to start a serverless journey in GCP, however, using Cloud Run may be the better solution. For users not acquainted with Docker & Linux, I would definitely recommend Google Cloud Functions, however, for more experienced users, Cloud Run may be better suited. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	Google Needing a zip file is problematic (when wanting to automate deployment for example). Requires another solution to execute automatically (ex. cloud scheduler). Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	Google Overall Google Cloud Functions is losing a lot of benefits to other GCP services, making it less attractive to users. A simple example would be the need to zip application files and push them to Google Storage which makes it a bit complicated to automate via a CI/CD pipeline. Another "similar" solution would be using Cloud Run although the need for a docker image is there, with the recent evolutions to Cloud Run (ability to downscale to 0) it makes a lot more interesting. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	Google Documentation is provided and clear for this service. Although GCP support is included in the current contract we didn't get to use it since the process is pretty straightforward. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	Google Using it for FinOps, we cut the bill in 2 for certain services (out of production). Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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