DigitalOcean Functions vs. Google Cloud Functions

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DigitalOcean Functions
Score 0.0 out of 10
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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
Score 8.6 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 FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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DigitalOcean FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
DigitalOcean FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Likelihood to Recommend
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7.0
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Usability
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7.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
DigitalOcean FunctionsGoogle Cloud Functions
Likelihood to Recommend
DigitalOcean
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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.
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Cons
DigitalOcean
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Google
  • Needing a zip file is problematic (when wanting to automate deployment for example).
  • Requires another solution to execute automatically (ex. cloud scheduler).
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Usability
DigitalOcean
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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.
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Support Rating
DigitalOcean
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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.
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Return on Investment
DigitalOcean
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Google
  • Using it for FinOps, we cut the bill in 2 for certain services (out of production).
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