Welcome to Rivet
Rivet is an open-source platform for deploying and scaling complex backends. Whether you're building collaborative applications, multiplayer games, AI agents, or any cloud service, Rivet provides the infrastructure you need.
Stateless Functions
Description: Short-lived HTTP requests at the edge
State: No persistent state (store state in Actors or external database)
Use Cases: APIs, edge computing, microservices
Replaces: Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run Functions
Stateful Actors
Description: Long running tasks with state persistence, hibernation, and realtime
State: Yes, built-in state persistence (also works with external databases)
Use Cases: AI agents, realtime apps, local-first sync, rate limiting, stream processing
Replaces: Cloudflare Durable Objects, Redis, Socket.io, AWS Lambda + DynamoDB + EventBridge
Sandboxed Containers
Description: Docker-like containers for CPU- or memory-intensive workloads
State: No persistent state (store state in Actors or external database)
Use Cases: Sandboxed code execution, desktop/browser automation, game servers, FFmpeg, PDF processing
Replaces: Kubernetes Batch Jobs, AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run