Lagon vs Banana
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Lagon and Banana.
Quick Verdict
2.0/5
Lagon
0 reviews
1.2/5
Banana
0 reviews
Lagon is rated higher (2.0 vs 1.2). Lagon is a free, open source serverless runtime for JavaScript/TypeScript that can be self-hosted or used via their cloud. Cloudflare Workers-compatible API. Banana was an ML inference hosting platform (Docker-based, Potassium framework). The service shut down permanently on March 31, 2024; do not purchase. Alternatives: Replicate, Modal, RunPod, Beam, Baseten.
Lagon Open source Cloudflare Workers alternative | Banana DEFUNCT — serverless GPU inference platform sunset Feb 2024, shut down March 31, 2024 | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 2.0 (0 reviews)✓ | 1.2 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | free | usage-based (historical; shut down 2024-03-31) |
| Starting price | Free✓ | From $2024/mo |
| Best for | Nobody as a hosted platform; self-hosters, researchers and forkers who want an AGPL-3.0 Rust/V8 edge-runtime codebase and are prepared to maintain it | Nobody — the platform shut down on March 31, 2024. Use Replicate, Modal, RunPod, Beam, or Baseten for serverless GPU inference. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
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| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tieropen sourceself hostable | gpu availableus datacenterapi access |
| Visit Lagon → | Visit Banana → | |
Lagon
Pros
- + Genuinely open source (AGPL-3.0) with a self-hostable full stack
- + Sound architecture: Rust runtime on V8 isolates with WinterCG-style Web APIs
- + Everything an edge platform needs was in the box: CLI, cron triggers, custom domains, rollback, logs
- + Free while it existed — no bill to model
- + The team and technology now sit inside Vercel, so the ideas live on
Cons
- - Discontinued: acquired by Vercel, cloud shut down, repo archived March 2026
- - Never left alpha — breaking changes and missing features were documented by the project itself
- - No SLA, no published pricing, no support channel
- - lagon.app still advertises a live product with no shutdown notice
- - Self-hosting an unmaintained V8-based runtime is a security liability
Banana
Pros
- + Historical: developer-friendly Docker/Potassium deployment with scale-to-zero GPU autoscaling
- + Historical: per-second GPU billing with no charge while idle
- + Historical: warm pools and model caching reduced cold starts for popular models
- + The founder published an unusually candid shutdown account and migration guidance
Cons
- - Permanently shut down on March 31, 2024 — the service cannot be purchased or used
- - Pricing was opaque even while alive ($1,200/month Team tier, per-GPU costs unpublished)
- - No published uptime SLA and no independent benchmarks
- - Startup platform risk realized: GPU economics forced closure within two months' notice
- - Third-party listings of its pricing and features conflict and cannot be verified against a live product
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