OpenFaaS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about OpenFaaS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From OpenFaaS's own pricing page, checked 2 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition (CE) | Free | 15 functions · 1 namespace · 5 replicas per function · personal, non-production use |
| OpenFaaS Standard | $1,250 a month | 500 functions · 1 namespace · single team or tenant · trial limited and subject to approval · $1250 / mo* |
| OpenFaaS for Enterprises | Priced on request | 5000 functions per namespace · unlimited namespaces · enterprise and multi-tenant use · Custom |
The facts
Each one read from OpenFaaS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Async jobs
- The pricing page lists failed-message retries and a JetStream-based queue worker for Standard.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Event integrations
- Listed event sources include Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Cron, and MQTT.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Existing services
- The site says Express.js, Flask, FastAPI, Django, and ASP.NET Core microservices can be deployed as-is.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Function isolation
- Enterprise includes secure function isolation such as gVisor, while the pricing page lists sandboxing as a restriction for Standard.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The pricing page describes CE for personal use, hobbyists, and experimentation, Standard for a single team or tenant, and Enterprise for large organisations and SaaS teams.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Official templates are available for Node.js, Python, Go, Java, C#, Ruby, and PHP.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- Standard includes Grafana dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Portable deployment
- Functions are portable OCI images that can run on-premises or in the cloud wherever Kubernetes runs.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Scaling
- OpenFaaS supports workload-tuned autoscaling, including scaling to zero when idle.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Security and access
- Enterprise features include OpenID Connect SSO, RBAC, web identity federation for CI/CD, and REST API auditing by webhook.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Security configuration
- OpenFaaS documentation describes secure secrets and an optional read-only root filesystem for functions.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Support
- Standard includes self-service email support; Enterprise support is a separate agreement with business-day SLA support and direct engineering support via Slack.checked 2 Oct 2026
- What it does
- OpenFaaS deploys serverless functions and microservices to Kubernetes.checked 2 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- CLI platforms
- The faas-cli installation page gives installation options for Linux, macOS, and Windows.checked 2 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2019checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Peterborough, UKchecked 28 Sep 2026
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