What running containers costs by vCPU, memory and hours.
Unlike functions, containers do not scale to zero — 730 hours a month regardless of traffic. Reserve capacity for steady load. Compare spiky workloads on the serverless cost calculator.
Free container hosting cost calculator — vCPU, memory and runtime to your monthly container bill.
Serverless container platforms bill per vCPU-hour and GB-hour of allocated resources, times the hours running. An always-on service pays for all 730 hours in a month, so idle time is not free like it is with functions.
Functions win for spiky, short work and scale to zero. Containers win for steady load, long-running processes and predictable latency. Many apps use both — this calculator shows the container side so you can compare against function GB-seconds.