Koyeb
Serverless platform for running containers and inference workloads at the edge.
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
Cloudflare Workers covers the headline feature free, so the $29/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Vercel, Cloudflare and Fly bundling edge compute and GPU inference into platforms teams already pay for. OpenAI, August 12, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Cloudflare Workers.
- What the call is worth $348/yr
- $29/mo at the entry paid tier — $348 a year per seat.
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- August 12, 2025
- List price
- $29/mo
- Per year
- $348
The backstory
Koyeb offers global serverless containers with scale-to-zero and GPU inference, a genuinely good technical package for latency-sensitive AI apps. Its difficulty is positioning rather than engineering: Cloudflare, Vercel and Fly reach the same developers through products they already use, and inference increasingly happens at a model provider rather than on rented GPUs. Koyeb keeps teams who want one bill for web services and inference in the same regions, which is a real but narrow lane.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $348/yrLarger community and mature multi-region primitives
fly.io open_in_newPurpose-built for Python and GPU inference workloads
modal.com open_in_newEdge compute on the largest network with a free tier
workers.cloudflare.com open_in_new1 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.
