Disclaimer: Chief Architect @ Vercel

This is a good summary. Edge Functions bring another set of trade-offs into the mix:

- Startup-time so fast that if you hit a "cold start" it is still fast enough from a human perception (often <30ms attributable to startup)

- Global by default

- Cheaper on a per invocation

- No limits on concurrent invocations

BUT

- Restricted API set, no node.js API support like Buffers or filesystem access

- Smaller max binary size

- Lower available CPU quota per request

- Lower max RAM usage

- Lower CPU-