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Functions 4.6/10

Custom deployments on a GPU fleet from $1.89/hr for H100 (16 vCPU, 200GB RAM, 1TB SSD); Serverless model APIs billed per output (~$0.025/image, $0.05-$0.40/video-sec) or per-second

fal.ai scores 4.6/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Paid — From $1.89/hr for H100 (Compute); per-output for Serverless. Custom deployments on a GPU fleet from $1.89/hr for H100 (16 vCPU, 200GB RAM, 1TB SSD); Serverless model APIs billed per output (~$0.025/image, $0.05-$0.40/video-sec) or per-second fallback.

Category Functions Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.6 / 10
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Overall 4.6/10
value = 4.6/100
weighted_components_v1
Invocation value 1/10
value = 0.01 ×
fixed_log_v1
Runtime fit 8.2/10
value = 8.2/100
policy_score_v1
Deploy friction 8/10
value = 8/100
policy_score_v1

Key metrics

H100 $1.89/hr
per-output

What you get

Paid — From $1.89/hr for H100 (Compute); per-output for Serverless. Custom deployments on a GPU fleet from $1.89/hr for H100 (16 vCPU, 200GB RAM, 1TB SSD); Serverless model APIs billed per output (~$0.025/image, $0.05-$0.40/video-sec) or per-second fallback.

H100 from $1.89/hr is among the cheapest H100 rates on a managed inference platform; per-output pricing gives exact cost-per-result for media gen.

Sources

  • "Deploy your own app on our competitively priced GPU fleet, as low as $1.89/hr for H100"

    https://fal.ai/pricing
  • "H100s, H200s, B200s starting at $1.89. Pay only for what you use. Choose per-output pricing for Serverless, or hourly GPU pricing with Compute."

    https://fal.ai/
paid value serverless-functions