--- title: Google Cloud Functions Reviews meta_title: 'Google Cloud Functions Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 81 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Cloud Functions works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 81 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-30' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Google Cloud Functions Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 81 ## About Google Cloud Functions Run your code in the cloud with no servers or containers to manage with our scalable, pay-as-you-go functions as a service (FaaS) product. New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Functions. All customers get 2 million monthly invocations free, not charged against your credits. ## Google Cloud Functions Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users love the **automation capabilities** of Google Cloud Functions, enabling effortless deployment without backend hassles. (1 reviews) - Users love the **ease of deployment** with Google Cloud Functions, simplifying backend setup and configuration for projects. (1 reviews) - Users find **deployment incredibly easy** with Google Cloud Functions, streamlining the setup process for their applications. (1 reviews) - Users love the **ease of deployment** with Google Cloud Functions, enabling seamless backend logic without hassle. (1 reviews) ## Google Cloud Functions Reviews ### 1. Great Free Review Period, User Interface **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I am in the free 30-day review period for Microsoft Cloud Function and it's great to be able to try out the program for free. So far functionality is great. I'm connecting some APIs to my Wordpress page and it's very user-friendly for a mid-level techie like myself. I use Google suite for just about everything so there's a lot of potential here. I may try my hand at creating some apps now that I have this tool available. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** There's a lot here and it's going to take some time to get a grip on all of it. A built-in tutorial would be nice. I have not tried the help section yet. There are some things here that I've never seen before. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** I anticipate being able to integrate data from all of my Google suite programs with features of my webpage and hopefully with Analytics as well. ### 2. Potential, but has a ways to go. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Good, simple integration with other GCP services and Google's DialogFlow voice platform. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Extremely poor cold start times on idle functions that made the service unusable for a DialogFlow-based voice platform production environment. DialogFlow itself mandates a 5 second timeout when calling a backend function and the cold start times on these Google Cloud Functions is often more than 5 seconds, meaning that Google DialogFlow will throw errors trying to call its own preferred and integrated FaaS solution. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Launching a voice-based user interface with DialogFlow. ### 3. Living in the clouds **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Corey N. | Video editor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Moving to serverless was one of the best decisions that we've ever made. Because of this we've made accessing our files so much easier. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** The areas I dislike is some of the UI needs to be updated, as well as it being a bit slower than the previous servers we had. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** I believe that Google Cloud Functions works hard to ensure we have access to our files from anywhere. This solution is only slightly slower than in house servers at less cost and less space. It also helps us access the files from out of our office at a much higher data rate. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the ability to access our files in different locations with Google Cloud. ### 4. The Best Multi-Purpose Cloud Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miranda D. | Associate Success Specialist, Success Graduate, Consumer Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I love how every one of my documents is accessible cross-platforms and when I’m prepared to download a document from Google, it can be done in a number of popular file formats in a friendly manner. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Occasionally, when switching between Microsoft tools and google drive products, the files are adjusted improperly and formatting is lost. That’s very painful to the time crunch many teams face. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** One is saving space on our work computers which is so precious, but the other is being able to access the same files for a number of users and edit those files simultaneously. It’s a great platform to work across. ### 5. Google Cloud is Amazing! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** We use this in our everyday jobs in order to share documents and work on multiple things at the same time. This has made it so easy to collaborate on documents, with real time editing/comments and able to share our work. I find this platform very secure in terms that the privacy settings make it easy to restrict others from seeing anything, and you have to be added to be a part of the cloud. Without this software, it would be really hard for us to collaborate the way we do. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** I dislike how hard it is to find items in the cloud. You have to do multiple clicking through folders to find items. I wish there was an easier search option in order to find what I am looking for. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Very beneficial for collaboration. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaborating, real-time editing/document updates ### 6. Cloud Services! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin C. | GREATNESS, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I Love the great way that the service allows me to save things in a cloud instead of a memory card or hard drive. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** I do not like how I have to navigate so much to get to the file I desire. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Please allow less navigation tabs to make it a more easier use. I would love for the feature to be a mobile app as well if not already. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage for all of our employees's personal work related files. ### 7. Good program as storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I like that it is integrated within the Google suite so you can open documents, send them by email, or take notes. It is easy to upload files as well as use synchronization. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Perhaps security can be compromised if two-step security is not activated manually. The payment packages to increase capacity could be somewhat more discounted. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Greater visibility as advertising on business pages, agreements with business associations, and certain discounts on their storage packages. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it for exchanging large files with coworkers as well as consulting documents. Also, to do group work and be able to edit it from the same Google Cloud program. ### 8. Use it every day **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave M. | Creative Director, Public Relations and Communications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Cross platform sharing of content of all kinds. Seamless **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Navigating between Google accounts is clumsy **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have many clients and many people that work on projects simultaneously and Google Cloud allows me to work with them seamlessly ### 9. SERVERLESS Functions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavlo Z. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Documentation for Cloud Functions is very comprehensive and contains examples for all occasions. Almost all. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** It can be tricky sometimes for an inexperienced person. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud Functions allowed us to make many API connections with just one function that does just one small task that can trigger a trigger (some condition) or after you explicitly call it by sending a simple REST request to its endpoint. ### 10. Simple, Elegant, Powerful - Not mature enough yet **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris R. | Web Application Developer, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Cloud functions are easy to use, deploy, and are written in NodeJS. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** There is nowhere to put sensitive data! In AWS lambda, you can set configuration variables, but Cloud Functions have no equivalent unless you are using Firebase. This renders them useless in many scenarios. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Be aware that there is no easy way to add environment information of sensitive config data. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** This applies more the the world of serverless computing at large. Cloud functions are cheap, easy, and extensible. There are also a wide range of use-cases where cloud functions are a perfect fit. They cost a fraction of running a VM, and come without the hassle. ### 11. Best lightweight computing solu **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jugraj S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** It's serverless architecture which allows us to run small business logic. It is simple to integrate with other Google cloud platform services **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** The lack of proper documentation and community support. There is not support for multiple programming languages as in AWS Lambda. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud function help us to run small tasks like starting a server scaling up and scaling down monitoring for external services. ### 12. Google Cloud Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Easy access through gmail & ability to function with coworkers easily. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Some apps and features are faulty and hard to use **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** It is a great resource and value to our business. We love all that google is putting out right now, and google cloud is no different. Quality product and service. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication. shared features. Flexibility of us for organization and individual use. We were using dropbox previously, and struggled to transfer things over from gmail and g suite to dropbox. Now we have much more simplicity in that process. Thanks! ### 13. Software down due to Google Cloud Outage **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Spencer B. | Sales Development, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Typically everything! I love google chrome and the many extensions I run on it. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** So many things are dependent on it working. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Have a plan for if the cloud goes down. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our entire software is run on the google cloud. Therefore, no google cloud -> no company. ### 14. Good Serverless solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** East Y. | Freelancer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Good Serverless solution - easy and handy. Comparing other vendors, Google sticks to open source way of cloud computing which is being loved by all developers. The costing model is also friendly. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** No really at this moment, I would recommend Google Cloud Function to other developers **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** IoT application requires on demand computing and Google Cloud Function is a good price to save money to deal with that scenario ### 15. User friendly and super convenient. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I like that I can access not only my things but stuff that is shared by the company. No matter where I am I have the documents and information I need. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Occasionally it is hard to find things right away if someone has named the file something weird. Not really the programs fault though. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is all about locations. We have multiple offices all over PA. A lot of employees. This just makes it that much easier to streamline the documentation part of this. ### 16. Scaling automatic **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LOKESH A. | Program Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** The software has good scalability and resource limits with supported languages and automation **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** limited functions per project, long execution time as compared to its competitors. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Great for real-time data processing and intelligent applications **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** running code in the cloud and integration with the third party services ### 17. quick performance for peak power **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** derrick h. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** platform works very well. Cloud technology is fairly new in our company but works well. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Explaining cloud performance can be very difficult to non native users **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Peak processing time. works well as platform deliver service. Gives peak performance when needed. Helps process information quickly. ### 18. Google Cloud Has Many Uses **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** What I like best about google cloud is the ease in sharing content and reports with colleagues, that can be edited by everyone. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** The thing I dislike is the sometimes unnecessary elements of security, making it difficult to share info with everyone needed. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Make sure you have your security settings set accurately so that there aren't issues allowing everyone access to documents. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaboration on reports, files, etc. that can't be done unless sharing a single computer - until Google Cloud. ### 19. Easy to use and share items **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Very user friendly and simple for most to integrate **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Certain features within drive are not always the best **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can edit a single item together at the same time or allow for just comments ### 20. Google Cloud Functions Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karan G. | AI/ML Technical Product Manager , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Automatically scales, highly available and fault tolerant No servers to provision, manage, patch or update **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** I dont think I dislike anything for google CF **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pay only while your code runs ### 21. Save money and time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I like how its very nice and easy to set up and saves lots of money **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** It takes a long time to upload and update code **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for easy hosting of node js functions ### 22. Google Cloud is Fantastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Ease of use. User friendly Interface.Great Documentation. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** The service can be very expensive but it depends what you are using the service for. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage ### 23. Google Cloud trumps its competition **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Pricing! Google Cloud is extremely affordable, especially for all of its functionalities. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Although the concept is easy to use at times i had issues with recovering certain files. Ensure that you save in properly and you will be fine. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining a centralized database for files such as PDFs, invoices, and other documents for internal and external use. ### 24. a good technology to adopt server less architecture **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** It is easy to use, one of the best feature is to support infrastructure on demand **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** I think you need to work on the UX part and bring in more docs and tutorials of the same. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** Yes i would love to build an fluent app for my current company OPPO. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** providing server less application. ### 25. The Cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I like it because all my documents are saved **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Just when you don't get online. There is not much I dislike **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Functions:** I like all the function **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for work and school documents ### 26. Great uptime **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** So far the uptime required for the services has been very high. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** So far nothing, it has been a very good experience so far. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting web applications and cloud data storage ### 27. good demo **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Based on the demo they provided, it's quite easy to use. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** None so far, liking what I see. Will update if this changes. **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Image recognition, fintech ### 28. Quick and efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** No time spent reviewing or editing,writing, just click and backup **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Unexpected loss of data,breaches and waiting to download **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Same as with icloud ### 29. Cloud review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** I like how everything is located in one place **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Its dependent on whether there is wifi connection **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can access data anywhere ### 30. Google Cloud is nice but not for high data use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** Quick and easy to use with Google Suites **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** Bandwidth speed dependent for certain apps **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud sharing for clients ### 31. Cloud store **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Functions?** this is my 1st google cloud exp and i m feeling great **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Functions?** security system for our company and collaborate with all other members **What problems is Google Cloud Functions solving and how is that benefiting you?** data collection ## Google Cloud Functions Discussions - [What is Google Cloud Functions used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-google-cloud-functions-used-for) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What languages does Google cloud functions support?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-languages-does-google-cloud-functions-support) - 3 comments - [Which architecture is supported by cloud functions?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-architecture-is-supported-by-cloud-functions) - 1 comment - [What is the function of Google cloud?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-function-of-google-cloud) - 1 comment - [View Google Cloud Functions pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-functions/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-01+22%3A22%3A29+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8eea1c5a-18b5-4640-85cc-473429ae7dc5&secure%5Btoken%5D=6b2bb41ae69aaa888ab145674a96c122f9f6556da70b305825ca8c5bbd534466&format=llm_user) ## Google Cloud Functions Integrations - [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) - [Google Cloud Pub/Sub](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-pub-sub/reviews) - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) ## Google Cloud Functions Features **Development** - Application Deployment - Development Tools - Development Environment - Language Support - Testing **Database** - Database Management - Analytics - Auto Scaling - Backup / Recovery - Storage **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security ## Top Google Cloud Functions Alternatives - [Salesforce Heroku](https://www.g2.com/products/salesforce-heroku/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (143 reviews) - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (927 reviews) - [Azure Functions](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-functions/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (197 reviews)