The best serverless platforms, according to hackers
6 serverless platforms were recommended on Hacker News between November 2025 and November 2026. We rank them by how many separate people recommend each one, and 1 earns the Hacker Approved badge.
Top pick
The most recommended serverless platform with the badge. Each figure is 25 people. RecommendsCriticizes One comment
Very cheap, generous free tier
Cheap, globally distributed serverless compute that scales from zero with almost no maintenance, though its unique runtime raises lock-in concerns and access controls are coarse.
All 6 serverless platforms, ranked
Select a column heading to sort. Approval share is recommenders out of everyone who gave an opinion; the tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs. Months counts the months, out of 13, in which someone recommended it.
| Rank | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare Workers | 190 | 77 | 71% | 13 | 5 yrs10 owners | Approved |
| 2 | AWS Lambda | 84 | 61 | 58% | 12 | 6 yrs5 owners | — |
| Tied 3 | Cloudflare Pages and Workers | 6 | 2 | 75% | 5 | — | — |
| Tied 3 | Cloudflare Python Workers | 6 | 4 | 60% | 2 | — | — |
| Tied 5 | Deno Deploy | 5 | 8 | 38% | 3 | — | — |
| Tied 5 | Telegram Serverless | 5 | 2 | 71% | 1 | — | — |
How we rank
Rank is the number of separate people who recommend a product in a Hacker News comment over the past year. Someone who praises the same serverless platform in five threads counts once.
The badge goes to serverless platforms that at least 10 people recommend, with recommenders outnumbering critics at least 2 to 1, recommended in at least 4 of the 13 months.
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