The Lambda Alternative

One API call.
Your function is live.

Stop fighting CloudFormation. Deploy serverless functions with a single POST. Millisecond warm invokes. Scale-to-zero when idle. Per-invocation billing. No vendor lock-in.

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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
  • Node.js 18/20/22 live, more runtimes rolling out, built-in logs
  • Works from curl, CI/CD, coding agents, or the tau CLI

The serverless platform that gets out of your way.

Start with a single function. Scale to teams, CI/CD, and enterprise workloads.

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.

Node.js 18/20/22

Three Node.js runtimes live today on optimized container images. Python, Go, Ruby, and Rust are rolling out next. Your agent picks the runtime, TauFunctions handles the rest.

Scale-to-Zero Containers

Each function runs as a real Docker Swarm service that scales to zero when idle — you pay nothing between invocations. Warm handlers execute in single-digit milliseconds.

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.

HTTP & Manual Triggers

Invoke over HTTP from anywhere — curl, CI/CD, webhooks pointed at your invoke URL, or the CLI. Cron and event triggers are on the roadmap.

CLI + MCP Server

npm i -g taufunctions — the zero-dependency tau CLI covers the full lifecycle, and tau mcp-serve exposes 37 MCP tools so Claude Code, Cursor, and friends deploy natively.

Per-Invocation Metering

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

Enterprise

Cross-Tenant Invocation

Coming to Enterprise: share functions across organizations via tyga.network contracts and invoke functions in partner tenants. Bilateral. Secure. Audited.

White-Label Marketplace

Coming to Enterprise: publish functions to a shared marketplace where 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.

Watch a function ship.

Real terminal sessions against the live platform — no mockups. Pick a scenario below.

Create, deploy, invoke — one terminal

Deploy. Invoke. Automate. 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 provisions the container, returns invoke URL.

Your agent sends the code inline with the runtime config, then deploys. TauFunctions provisions a dedicated Docker Swarm service 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  return { status: 'processed', orderId: event.orderId };\n}"
}

// Response: { "functionId": "taufn-a1b2c3d4-...", "status": "inactive", ... }

POST /tau/functions/taufn-a1b2c3d4-.../deploy

// Response: { "status": "active",
//   "deployment": { "serviceName": "tau-fn-taufn-a1b2c3d4-...",
//     "invokeUrl": "https://fn-taufn-a1b2c3d4-....tau.agentsme.ai" } }
2

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

One POST — your JSON body is the event your handler receives. TauFunctions executes in an isolated container, logs every invocation durably, returns the result. Single-digit-ms handler execution when warm.

POST /tau/functions/:id/invoke
POST /tau/functions/taufn-a1b2c3d4-.../invoke
{
  "orderId": "ORD-001",
  "items": [{"sku": "WIDGET-X", "qty": 3}]
}

// Response:
// { "success": true, "statusCode": 200,
//   "body": "{\"status\":\"processed\",\"orderId\":\"ORD-001\"}",
//   "duration": 2, "requestId": "req-a1b2c3d4",
//   "executor": "container" }
3

The Agent Loop — same lifecycle from the CLI or your agent's MCP tools.

Install the zero-dependency CLI and your agent gets the whole platform: functions, deploys, invokes, logs, stats. tau mcp-serve exposes it all as native MCP tools. Idle functions scale to zero automatically.

npm install -g taufunctions
# Full lifecycle from the terminal
tau fn create "process-order" -r nodejs20 --file index.js
tau deploy taufn-a1b2c3d4-...
tau invoke taufn-a1b2c3d4-... '{"orderId":"ORD-001"}'
tau logs taufn-a1b2c3d4-... --tail 50
tau stats taufn-a1b2c3d4-...

# Or hand it to your coding agent as MCP tools
tau mcp-serve

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
  • Four services to configure before "hello world"
  • 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
  • Millisecond warm execution, scale-to-zero idle
  • Agent-first API + CLI with MCP server
  • 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 arbitrary container runtimes
  • No per-invocation metering per tenant
Joe Wee "Developers shouldn't spend more time deploying a function than writing it. With Lambda, they do. Every time. We built TauFunctions so you can focus on what your code does — not how it gets there. One API call and your function is live. That's it. Ship faster. Ship more. Let the platform worry about 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.

Solo

$10 /month

1 developer, 1 project

  • 1 API key
  • 10 functions
  • 1K invocations/day
  • All Node.js runtimes (18/20/22)
  • Real-time logs
Get API Key - $1

Pro

$19.99 /month

For production workloads

  • 5 API keys
  • 100 functions
  • 10K invocations/day
  • CLI + MCP server access
  • Usage & billing stats API
  • Priority support
Get API Key - $1

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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$1 verification fee on signup — credited to your first subscription or refunded on request.

Deploy your first function in 30 seconds.

No AWS account. No CloudFormation. Just POST your code and it's live. Millisecond warm invokes, scale-to-zero idle, $0.10 per million invocations. $1 verification on signup — credited or refunded.

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