DigitalOcean Functions free hosting
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DigitalOcean Functions
Webhooks, lightweight Node/Python/Go/PHP API logic, scheduled background tasks within compute allowance.
Facts
- Free allowance
- 90,000 GiB-seconds/month
- Plan limits
- Free compute shared across account/team; 100 ms minimum metered duration per invocation; no flat request fee; excess GiB-seconds billed.
- Storage
- Function source bundle size restricted (see Functions limits); no durable file storage allowance included with Functions Free.
- Account
- DigitalOcean team with a payment method on file is required to create cloud resources.
- Retention
- Functions run only on invocation and do not provide continuously running processes; namespace/inactivity deletion policy not documented.
- Custom domain
- A DigitalOcean-hosted function URL; custom domain connection for standalone Free Functions not established.
- Password protection
- Access keys can secure functions; a shared viewer password for hosted pages is not a documented Free entitlement.
- Billing
- The 90,000 GiB-second allowance is shared per team each month, including App Platform function components. Automatic overages cost $0.0000185 per GiB-second. App Platform and other resources can carry separate charges.
- Execution
- On-demand Node.js, Python, Go or PHP functions. The maximum timeout is 15 minutes including initialization. Deploy via the Functions MCP tooling or doctl.
Worth knowing
Payment method required; overages are billed automatically. The allowance is memory multiplied by runtime, not an invocation count. App Platform bandwidth or other services may cost extra.
Reviewed 2026-11-14 from official documentation. Deployments have not been tested.