Cloudflare D1

DB 7.8/10

5 GB SQLite storage + 25 billion rows read/mo + 50 million rows written/mo included; overage $0.001/M rows read, $1.00/M rows written. Storage scales to 1 TB.

Cloudflare D1 scores 7.8/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — $5/mo (Workers Paid minimum). 5 GB SQLite storage + 25 billion rows read/mo + 50 million rows written/mo included; overage $0.001/M rows read, $1.00/M rows written. Storage scales to 1 TB.

Category DB Kind Paid plan

Free value score

7.8 / 10

Show the math

Overall 7.8/10

value = 7.8/100

weighted_components_v1

Capacity 7.4/10

value = 15.3 ×

fixed_log_v1

Operations 8.2/10

value = 8.2/100

policy_score_v1

Production fit 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

5 GB Storage

25B reads/mo Reads

50M writes/mo Writes

$5/mo

5 GB

25B reads

What you get

Paid — $5/mo (Workers Paid minimum). 5 GB SQLite storage + 25 billion rows read/mo + 50 million rows written/mo included; overage $0.001/M rows read, $1.00/M rows written. Storage scales to 1 TB.

~5 billion row reads per $1/mo — by far the cheapest read-heavy serverless SQL; the $5 also covers Workers, KV, Durable Objects

Gotchas

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Sources

"Rows read 5 million / day First 25 billion / month included + $0.001 / million rows. Rows written 100,000 / day First 50 million / month included + $1.00 / million rows"
https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing/
"The paid plan costs $5/month for the first 25 billion rows read, 50 million rows written, and 5 GB storage."
https://sdtimes.com/data/cloudflare-announces-ga-releases-for-d1-hyperdrive-and-workers-analytics-engine/

paid value databases

Open service Source ← All DB

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