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Serverless Framework pricing
Serverless Framework publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $4/credit
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Serverless Framework plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Reserved Credits | $1/credit | 2 | +$1/credit, 2 more features |
| Pay-As-You-Go | $4/credit | 2 | +$3/credit, 2 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers for organizations with under $2m annual revenue, all framework features included.
Reserved Credits
$1/creditOver Free, this tier adds:
- Discounts up to 74% off (1-year), 77% off (2-year), 80% off (3-year)
- Additional 10% off for upfront payment
Pay-As-You-Go
$4/creditOver Reserved Credits, this tier adds:
- 1 credit = 1 Service Instance or 50K Traces or 4M Metrics
- Standard rate for larger organizations
Where Serverless Framework stops being free
Free, Free
- For organizations with under $2M annual revenue
- All Framework features included
Reserved Credits, $1/credit
The first thing you pay for:
- Discounts up to 74% off (1-year), 77% off (2-year), 80% off (3-year)
- Additional 10% off for upfront payment
What the product covers
The full Serverless Framework feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- YAML configuration
Deployment
- Single command deployment
Extensions
- Extensible plugin ecosystem
Development
- Multi-language support
Operations
- Unified dashboard
Observability
- Built-in metrics and alerts
People bring Serverless Framework in for deploying apis and microservices to aws lambda, building event-driven applications with serverless functions, managing multi-language serverless projects. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Serverless Framework are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serverless Framework (this page) | Free, then $4/credit | - | - | |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Serverless Framework |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Serverless Framework |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Serverless Framework |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Serverless Framework |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Serverless Framework |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Serverless Framework |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Serverless Framework badges page.
Before you pay for Serverless Framework
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $4/credit, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Serverless Framework runs on aws lambda, aws api gateway, aws cloudformation, and is published by Serverless, Inc. The full record is on the Serverless Framework review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Serverless Framework pricing questions
- How much does Serverless Framework cost?
- Serverless Framework publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $4/credit for Pay-As-You-Go. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Serverless Framework have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers for organizations with under $2m annual revenue, all framework features included. Paying starts at $1/credit for Reserved Credits.
- What is the difference between Free and Reserved Credits on Serverless Framework?
- Reserved Credits costs $1/credit against Free, and adds discounts up to 74% off (1-year), 77% off (2-year), 80% off (3-year), additional 10% off for upfront payment.
- Is the Pay-As-You-Go plan on Serverless Framework worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 1 credit = 1 service instance or 50k traces or 4m metrics, standard rate for larger organizations. It costs $4/credit against $1/credit for Reserved Credits. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Serverless Framework have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
- What am I actually paying for with Serverless Framework?
- The record lists 6 features across 6 areas: core, deployment, extensions, development, operations, observability. In practice it is brought in for deploying apis and microservices to aws lambda, building event-driven applications with serverless functions, managing multi-language serverless projects.
- Does Serverless Framework charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Serverless Framework prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Serverless Framework against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Serverless Framework covering price, platforms and features.