The Lambda Alternative

One API call.
Your function is live.

Stop fighting CloudFormation. Deploy serverless functions with a single POST. Five runtimes. Sub-50ms cold starts. Per-invocation billing. No vendor lock-in.

5 Runtimes
<50ms Cold Start
99.9% Uptime
$0 Idle Cost

AWS Lambda needs S3, IAM, API Gateway, and CloudFormation.
TauFunctions needs one POST.

Lambda deploys are a 7-step pipeline across 3 AWS services. TauFunctions is one HTTP request with your code inline. Deploy in seconds, invoke in milliseconds, pay per invocation.

AWS Lambda

  • Zip your code, upload to S3 bucket
  • Create IAM role, attach policies
  • Configure API Gateway + CloudFormation
  • Wait 5 minutes, pray CloudWatch works

7 steps. 3 services. 5 minutes. Every time.

TauFunctions

  • POST /tau/functions — code inline, deployed
  • POST /tau/functions/:id/invoke — executed
  • Logs, stats, triggers returned in response
  • $0.10/1M invocations — one price, all-inclusive

1 step. 1 service. Seconds. Every time.

The Result

  • Seconds not minutes to deploy
  • One price, not four line items
  • 5 runtimes, 6 trigger types, built-in logs
  • Works from curl, CI/CD, coding agents, or any HTTP client

The serverless platform that gets out of your way.

Start with a single function. Scale to pipelines, triggers, and cross-tenant invocations.

Whether you're a solo developer prototyping, a team running CI/CD pipelines, or an enterprise sharing compute across organizations — it's the same API.

Solo Developer

One-Call Deploy

Create, deploy, and invoke functions via a single API call. Your agent sends the code inline — TauFunctions builds the container and returns the invoke URL.

5 Runtimes

Node.js 18/20/22, Python 3.11/3.12, Go 1.21/1.22, Ruby 3.2, Rust 1.75. Optimized container images. Your agent picks the runtime, TauFunctions handles the rest.

Sub-50ms Cold Starts

Pre-warmed containers on Docker Swarm. Warm functions respond in single-digit milliseconds. No 500ms Lambda cold start tax.

Built-in Observability

Real-time execution logs, invocation stats, error tracking. Every invocation metered. No CloudWatch setup, no third-party APM required.

Team & CI/CD

Multi-Tenant Isolation

Per-project API keys and resource limits. Each tenant gets isolated function namespaces, separate metering, and team API key management.

Trigger Automation

HTTP, cron, webhook, event-driven, scheduled, manual. Six trigger types. Your agent sets the trigger, TauFunctions handles the execution.

Pipeline Orchestration

Chain functions together. Fan-out/fan-in patterns. Your agent builds the pipeline, TauFunctions executes it with full observability.

Per-Invocation Metering

Per-tenant usage tracking. Team API key management. Real-time billing dashboard. Pay only when functions execute.

Enterprise

Cross-Tenant Invocation

Share functions across organizations via tyga.network contracts. Invoke functions in partner tenants. Bilateral. Secure. Audited.

White-Label Marketplace

Publish functions to a shared marketplace. Other tenants discover and invoke them. Your brand, your pricing, your functions.

Compliance & SLA

EU AI Act compliant logs. Every agent action audited with actor, timestamp, state change. Custom runtimes. Dedicated clusters. Export for regulators.

Deploy. Invoke. Scale. All closed-loop.

Your agents drive each loop. You set direction, review outputs, and keep full visibility.

1

The Deploy Loop — agent creates function, TauFunctions builds container, returns invoke URL.

Your agent sends the code inline with runtime and trigger config. TauFunctions builds the container on Docker Swarm and returns a live invoke URL. No zip, no S3, no CloudFormation.

POST /tau/functions
{
  "name": "process-order",
  "runtime": "nodejs20",
  "handler": "index.handler",
  "code": "exports.handler = async (event) => {\n  const order = event.payload;\n  return { status: 'processed', orderId: order.id };\n}",
  "trigger": "http",
  "timeout": 30,
  "memory": 256
}

// Response:
// { "id": "fn_abc123", "status": "deployed",
//   "invokeUrl": "https://tau.tyga.network/fn_abc123/invoke" }
2

The Invoke Loop — agent calls function, execution logged, result returned.

One POST with a JSON payload. TauFunctions executes in an isolated container, logs every invocation, returns the result. Sub-50ms for warm functions.

POST /tau/functions/:id/invoke
POST /tau/functions/fn_abc123/invoke
{
  "payload": {
    "orderId": "ORD-001",
    "items": [{"sku": "WIDGET-X", "qty": 3}]
  }
}

// Response:
// { "result": { "status": "processed", "orderId": "ORD-001" },
//   "duration": 12, "billed": true,
//   "logId": "log_xyz789" }
3

The Scale Loop — set triggers, auto-scale on Docker Swarm, cross-tenant invoke.

Configure cron, webhook, or event triggers. TauFunctions auto-scales containers on Docker Swarm. Enterprise tenants invoke each other's functions via bilateral contracts.

Triggers + Cross-Tenant Invoke
// Set a cron trigger — run every hour
PATCH /tau/functions/fn_abc123
{ "trigger": "cron", "schedule": "0 * * * *" }

// Set a webhook trigger
PATCH /tau/functions/fn_abc123
{ "trigger": "webhook", "webhookSecret": "whsec_..." }

// Cross-tenant invoke (enterprise)
POST /tau/functions/fn_abc123/invoke
{ "tenantId": "acme-corp",
  "contractId": "ctr_bilateral_001",
  "payload": { "orderId": "ORD-002" } }

Lambda pricing is a spreadsheet.
Ours is one number.

AWS Lambda charges per request + compute time + data transfer + API Gateway. We charge $0.10 per million invocations. That's it.

AWS Lambda

Complex pricing, no agent API

  • Complex multi-tier pricing (requests + compute + transfer)
  • 47-step deploy: zip, S3, IAM, API Gateway, CloudFormation
  • 100-500ms cold starts
  • No agent-first API
  • Vendor lock-in (AWS-specific)
  • CloudWatch required for logs

TauFunctions

One price, one API call

  • $0.10/1M invocations — all-inclusive
  • 1 API call to deploy, 1 to invoke
  • <50ms cold starts (pre-warmed containers)
  • Agent-first API — agents are primary users
  • No vendor lock-in (Docker Swarm, portable)
  • Built-in logs, stats, error tracking

Vercel / Cloudflare

Git-push only, limited runtimes

  • Limited runtimes (Node.js / JS only)
  • Git-push deploy only — no agent API
  • No multi-tenant isolation
  • No agent-first API
  • No cross-tenant invocation
  • No per-invocation metering per tenant
Joe Wee "I was deploying Lambda functions at 2am, fighting CloudFormation templates that failed on line 847. The function took 10 seconds to write and 15 minutes to deploy. So I built TauFunctions. One API call. The code goes in, the function comes out live. I review the code. The platform handles the infrastructure."
Joe Wee
Founder, TauFunctions. Co-founded Chillingo (Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, acquired by EA). 30-year serial entrepreneur.

Per invocation. Not per server hour.

Lambda charges for compute time + requests + data transfer + API Gateway. TauFunctions: one price per invocation. Start free.

Free

$0 /month

Get started, no credit card

  • 1 API key
  • 10 functions
  • 100 invocations/day
  • All 5 runtimes
  • Real-time logs
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Pro

$19.99 /month

For production workloads

  • 5 API keys
  • 100 functions
  • 10K invocations/day
  • All trigger types
  • Pipeline orchestration
  • Priority support
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On-Premise

Custom

Your infrastructure, our platform

  • Your own tyga.network cluster
  • SSO & SAML
  • Custom runtimes
  • Air-gapped deployment
  • Dedicated support
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Deploy your first function in 30 seconds.

No AWS account. No CloudFormation. No credit card. Just POST your code and it's live. Five runtimes. Sub-50ms cold starts. $0.10 per million invocations.

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