Pick SST if
sST/AWS teams who will stay on the free tier (≤350 active resources, no card) while they open a first Console overview, then pay $0.086 per active resource / month when a workspace stays over 350.
Read the SST pageSST vs Val Town
Our take
Pick SST if sST/AWS teams who will stay on the free tier (≤350 active resources, no card) while they open a first Console overview, then pay $0.086 per active resource / month when a workspace stays over 350. Pick Val Town if solo JS developers who will stay on Free at $0 (100k runs/day, public vals, 15-minute cron) while they ship a first HTTP val, then buy Pro at $21/month billed yearly when they need private
Best for
SST Logs and deploys you start at $0
Val Town HTTP / cron / email code you start at $0
Free plan
SST $0 · no card to start. Personal stages remain accessible if you go over
Val Town $0 · unlimited public vals. 100,000 runs/day. 15 min cron. 1 min wall-clock / run. 3 days log retention. Email yourself. MCP. No custom domains
Lowest paid
SST Old invocation pricing $0.00002
Val Town Pro $21/mo yearly
Next step up
SST Paid $0.086
Val Town Business from $167/mo yearly
Runs where
SST Hosted
Val Town Hosted
Watch out
SST AWS only
Val Town Free vals are public
Last checked
SST 2026-10-23 · sst.dev/docs/console
Val Town 2026-10-23 · val.town/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Val Town if
solo JS developers who will stay on Free at $0 (100k runs/day, public vals, 15-minute cron) while they ship a first HTTP val, then buy Pro at $21/month billed yearly when they need private vals, 1-minute cron, and 1M runs/day.
Read the Val Town page