Val Town

What it is for

Val Town is a hosted serverless-JS desk: you ship a val (a versioned folder of Deno code), and Free is $0 (unlimited public vals, 100,000 runs/day, 15-minute cron, email-yourself). Use it when the job is HTTP / cron / email code you start at $0, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Val Town SQLite admin (messages table, Query / schema / Export CSV, sidebar Code / App / Logs / Analytics / SQLite) from the docs still — not a pricing card. The table itself is ops of SQLite.

Key features

• Vals — a versioned folder of deployed Deno code (What is a val; pricing Unlimited public vals). One project. Townie that writes a val is a generate option. Branches and remixes sit on Versioning.
• Triggers — HTTP, cron, or inbound email that runs a file (HTTP; Cron; pricing cron interval / wall-clock). A start, not a val. Free: 15 min cron, 1 min wall-clock. Pro: 1 min cron, 10 min wall-clock. HTTP / cron / email are the same trigger card.
• SQLite — a per-val database you query in the admin (SQLite still; Admin). A table, not a val. Blob storage is a different store.
• Versioning / pull requests — history, branches, remixes, PRs (Version control; PRs). A review, not a trigger.
• Access / orgs — public / unlisted / private vals and team accounts (Access; pricing private vals / Team accounts). A permission, not a val. Private vals are Pro (2,000). Teams print on Business.

Runs/day and log retention are the meter. Custom domains are an option of HTTP. Townie credits print on Pro / Business — not a sixth desk. @valtown on YouTube is a different channel; the product channel is @ValDotTown.

Who it's for

Best fit: 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.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from val.town/pricing. The page has Monthly and Yearly (“2 months free”). Tile figures below are the printed yearly $0 / $21 / $167.

• Free — $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.
• Pro — $21/month billed yearly (the page also prints a monthly Pro; yearly is the $21 tile). 2,000 private vals. 1,000,000 runs/day. 1 min cron. 10 min wall-clock. 10 custom domains. 10 days logs. Email anyone. $10 Townie credit / month.
• Business — $167/month billed yearly (“Starting from”). Everything in Pro plus $100 Townie credit / month, unlimited custom domains, 5 million runs/day, team accounts, Slack Connect. Contact business@val.town.
• Enterprise — Custom. SOC 2, log export, no limits. Talk to business@val.town — do not invent an Enterprise dollar.

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Limitations / costs

• Free vals are public. Private code is Pro.
• Free cron is 15 minutes. A one-minute job is Pro.
• Townie credit is $10 on Pro / $100 on Business. That is a meter, not a second product.
• A val desk, not a container PaaS. For Git-to-VM deploys see Koyeb. For a usage-metered canvas see Northflank.

Alternatives

• Koyeb — per-second containers and GPUs when a val’s Deno runtime is too small.
• Railway — Git-to-cloud services when you want a Procfile/Dockerfile, not a val folder.
• SST — AWS/Cloudflare IaC when you will own the cloud account.

Official tutorial

Official Val Town channel video: Val Town 101 (oEmbed author: Val Town). First-party intro; the docs SQLite still is the cover. Do not embed @valtown (unrelated documentary channel).

Written path: val.town/pricing plus the SQLite still.

Website

https://www.val.town

Repository

https://github.com/val-town

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Val Town SQLite admin from the docs still. Dollars checked on val.town/pricing (Free $0; Pro $21 yearly; Business $167 yearly). Tutorial oEmbed author: Val Town (@ValDotTown).

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.