Serverless developer tools
Every listing tagged serverless, A to Z: 8 tools across 2 categories. Listed in alphabetical order, not ranked.
Chroma
Open-source (Apache-2.0) search infrastructure for AI: vector, full-text and metadata search. Self-host it or use serverless Chroma Cloud, billed per GiB written, stored and queried, with free credits to start.
Durable Actors
Open-source (MIT) alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects from Terse: stateful serverless actors with their own SQLite database and serialized execution, for chat, collaboration and multi-agent apps, with TypeScript and Python SDKs.
Modal Sandboxes
Sandboxes on Modal's serverless cloud for running untrusted or LLM-written code, created from Python, JavaScript or Go: gVisor isolation, or a VM with its own Linux kernel when you need Docker or FUSE, plus GPUs, custom images, volumes, filesystem snapshots and runs of up to 24 hours. Billed per second; the Starter plan includes $30 of compute a month.
Neon
Serverless Postgres with branching and autoscaling.
Netlify
Platform for deploying web projects with Git-based builds, functions and forms.
Pinecone
Fully managed vector database: serverless dense, sparse and full-text indexes on AWS, GCP or Azure, with hosted embedding and reranking models, Pinecone Assistant for chat and agent apps, and bring-your-own-cloud on Enterprise. Free Starter plan.
Sectr
Serverless backend platform for deploying AI agents built with LangGraph, the OpenAI Agents SDK or Pydantic AI in two lines: one transcript of every message, tool call and approval, agents that scale to zero while waiting for human approval and resume where they stopped, and an AG-UI endpoint for CopilotKit or any frontend. sectr dev gives a local chat UI; free to deploy during beta.
Vercel
Frontend cloud for deploying Next.js and other frameworks with preview deployments and edge network.