Cloudflare Workers

Deploy serverless functions globally in seconds

Also known as
cloudflare-workers

What is Cloudflare Workers?

Cloudflare Workers are fast, elastic, and serverless functions that scale automatically from zero to millions of requests.

Independently observed

Cloudflare Workers pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.02/moHybridFree tier

Free tier with 100k requests/day. Pay-as-you-go at $0.30/million requests and $0.02/million CPU ms.

Free

Free
Free
cpu_time
10ms/request
requests
100k/day
containers_cpu
375 vCPU-min
containers_disk
200 GB-hrs
containers_memory
25 GiB-hrs
containers_egress_na_eu
1TB
durable_objects_duration
13k GB-s/day
durable_objects_requests
100k/day
durable_objects_sql_stored
5GB
durable_objects_sql_rows_read
50M/day
  • 100k requests/day
  • 10ms CPU time per request
  • Durable Objects: 100k requests/day, 13k GB-s/day
  • Durable Objects SQL: 50M rows read/day, 100k written/day, 5GB stored
  • Containers: 25 GiB-hrs, 375 vCPU-min, 200 GB-hrs, 1TB egress (NA/EU)

Pay-as-you-go

$0.30 per 1000000 requests + $0.02 per 1000000 CPU ms + $0.15 per 1000000 Durable Objects requests + $12.50 per 1000000 Durable Objects GB-seconds

What Cloudflare Workers does

The capabilities that matter for serverless & edge platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Execution substrate
V8 isolate
Language / runtime breadth
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust
Reach
Runs at global edge PoPs
Scale
Scale to zero
Performance
Cold-start profile
None (isolate)
Limits
Max execution duration
-
Integration
Event source breadth
HTTP endpoints, webhooks, scheduled tasks, background jobs
HTTP endpoint trigger
Cron / scheduled invocations
State
Durable state / workflow primitive
Flexibility
Bring-your-own runtime / container
-
Deployment
Hosting
Cloud only
Ops
Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
-
Extensibility
CLI + IaC / framework support
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Cloudflare Workers alternatives

Other serverless & edge platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Cloudflare Workers, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 70 / 100
low · 30%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability5030.001500.0
Pricing Transparency10012.001200.0
Capabilities8112.00973.8
Price Level808.00640.0
Integrations016.000.0-
Security Posture522.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"hosting":"cloud","triggers":"HTTP endpoints, webhooks, scheduled tasks, background jobs","languages":"JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust","cold_start":"none","cli_and_iac":true,"http_trigger":true,"durable_state":true,"scale_to_zero":true,"scheduled_cron":true,"edge_distributed":true,"runtime_substrate":"isolate"}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp0.02mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%