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.
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.
Free tier with 100k requests/day. Pay-as-you-go at $0.30/million requests and $0.02/million CPU ms.
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
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.
- Execution substrate
- V8 isolate
- Language / runtime breadth
- JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Runs at global edge PoPs
- ✓
- Scale to zero
- ✓
- Cold-start profile
- None (isolate)
- Max execution duration
- -
- Event source breadth
- HTTP endpoints, webhooks, scheduled tasks, background jobs
- HTTP endpoint trigger
- ✓
- Cron / scheduled invocations
- ✓
- Durable state / workflow primitive
- ✓
- Bring-your-own runtime / container
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
- -
- CLI + IaC / framework support
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Cloudflare Workers alternatives
Other serverless & edge platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Vercel FunctionsRun server-side code without managing serverslow · 49%
- Deno DeployOne simple platform for all your JavaScript and TypeScript applicationslow · 45%
- Serverless FrameworkDeploy APIs, scheduled tasks, workflows and event-driven apps to AWS Lambda easilymedium · 50%
- Vercel Edge Runtimemedium · 55%
- FissionOpen Source Kubernetes-native Serverless Frameworklow · 24%
- Fastly Computelow · 37%
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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 12.00 | 973.8 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 5 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
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
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |