AWS Lambda Calculator

Lambda bills per request plus GB-seconds of execution — 1M requests + 400k GB-s are free monthly.

Result

Monthly cost$0.8
Request charges$0.8
Compute (GB-s)$0
GB-seconds used250,000
vs equivalent t3.medium$30.37

AWS Lambda Calculator — FAQs

When is Lambda cheaper than EC2?

Spiky/low-utilisation workloads — paying per invocation beats idling instances. Sustained high volume flips the crossover toward containers.

What else lands on the Lambda bill?

API Gateway ($1–3.50/million requests), CloudWatch logs, and X-Ray tracing — often more than the compute itself.

Serverless or Containers?

We model the crossover point on real traffic before you commit.

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