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Comparison

Cloudflare Workers vs Modal

No leader: the top candidate Cloudflare Workers has only 0.14 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Cloudflare Workers63
Modal56
Score
vioscaleAI score
Cloudflare Workers63 / 100low · 14%
Modal56 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Model
Cloudflare Workersopen_source
Modalfreemium
Price level
Cloudflare Workersfree
Modalhigh
Starting price
Cloudflare Workers–
Modal$250
Transparent
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Integrations
Count
Cloudflare Workers–
Modal2
Security
Certifications
Cloudflare Workers–
ModalSOC 2 Type II
Disclosure policy
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Gdpr
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal–
Hipaa
Cloudflare Workers–
Modal✓
Iso27001
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal–
Pci
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal–
Soc2
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Trust center
Reliability
Sla pct
Cloudflare Workers100
Modal–
Status page
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Cloudflare Workers6 items
Modal7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for serverless & edge platforms. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Execution substrate
Cloudflare WorkersV8 isolate
ModalContainer
Language / runtime breadth
Cloudflare WorkersJavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust
ModalPython
Reach
Runs at global edge PoPs
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Scale
Scale to zero
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Performance
Cold-start profile
Cloudflare WorkersNone (isolate)
ModalLow
Limits
Max execution duration
Cloudflare Workers-
Modal-
Integration
Event source breadth
Cloudflare WorkersHTTP requests, cron schedules, webhooks, message queues
ModalHTTP, cron/scheduled, events
HTTP endpoint trigger
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Cron / scheduled invocations
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
State
Durable state / workflow primitive
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Flexibility
Bring-your-own runtime / container
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Deployment
Hosting
Cloudflare WorkersCloud only
ModalCloud only
Ops
Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
Cloudflare Workers-
Modal✓
Extensibility
CLI + IaC / framework support
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Cloudflare Workers

A server runtime environment based on Cloudflare Workers' underlying code, designed for self-hosting applications built with JavaScript and WebAssembly. It provides web-platform standard APIs and functions as a programmable HTTP proxy.

Independently observed

Modal

A cloud platform that automatically scales applications based on demand and charges only for actual compute consumed, measured per CPU cycle. Provides direct GPU access for AI inference and training, with support for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Go.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Cloudflare Workers

from $20/moHybridFree tier

Free tier with per-request and per-CPU metering. General Cloudflare plans from free to $250/mo; Workers add-on services metered separately.

  • FreeFree
    • DNS
    • DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL
    • WAF
    • +3 more
  • Pro$20/mo billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +7 more
  • Business$200/mo billed annually or $250/mo billed monthly
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +8 more
  • ContractContact sales
as of verify ↗

Modal

from $250/moUsage-basedFree tier

Free tier with $30/month compute. Pay-per-second metering: CPUs from $0.0000131/core/sec, GPUs from $0.000164/sec (T4) to $0.001972/sec (B300), memory at $0.00000222/GiB/sec.

  • StarterFree
    • 3 workspace seats
    • 100 containers
    • 10 GPU concurrency
    • Limited scheduled and web functions
    • Real-time metrics and logs
    • +1 more
  • Team$250/month base + compute usage ($100/month free credits)
    • Unlimited workspace seats
    • 5000 containers
    • 50 GPU concurrency
    • Unlimited scheduled functions
    • Custom domains
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Volume-based discounts
    • Embedded ML engineering services
    • Private Slack support
    • Audit logs
    • SAML SSO
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Cloudflare Workers✗
Modal✓
macOS
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✗
Windows
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✗
Linux
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✗
CLI
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cloudflare Workers✗
Modal✓
Self-hosted
Cloudflare Workers✓
Modal✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Cloudflare Workers

Not documented yet.

Modal

4 total
  • AWS Marketplace
  • GCP Marketplace
  • Datadog
  • Sentry.io
Independently observed
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Cloudflare Workers or Modal: which one depends on you

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