Lagon vs Val Town
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Lagon and Val Town.
Quick Verdict
2.0/5
Lagon
0 reviews
3.6/5
Val Town
0 reviews
Val Town is rated higher (3.6 vs 2.0). 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. Val Town is a social site for writing and running serverless JavaScript snippets. Create functions (vals) that run on HTTP, on a schedule, or in response to emails. Collaborative and public by default.
Lagon Open source Cloudflare Workers alternative | Val Town Serverless JavaScript snippets with HTTP endpoints | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 2.0 (0 reviews) | 3.6 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | free | freemium |
| Starting price | Free | Free tier available |
| 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 | Developers and small teams who want script-shaped automations, small APIs, and cron jobs running on real URLs without managing any infrastructure |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tieropen sourceself hostable | free tierus datacenter |
| Visit Lagon → | Visit Val Town → | |
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
Val Town
Pros
- + Fastest path from script to a live HTTPS URL we've seen — no infra setup at all
- + Genuinely usable free tier: 100,000 runs/day, unlimited public vals
- + Published per-plan limits in one place (runs, wall-clock time, memory, cron frequency)
- + SQLite, blob storage, email send/receive, and a documented HTTP API included
- + Version history, branching, and PR-style collaboration built into the code model
Cons
- - JavaScript/TypeScript only, on a web-standard runtime
- - No public datacenter locations, no SLA outside custom Enterprise deals
- - Private vals and custom domains are paid-only; public-by-default is the free posture
- - 1–10 minute execution caps and 3–10 day log retention limit production use
- - Seed-stage company — plan names and pricing have already shifted more than once
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