Cloudflare Containers

Functions 4.8/10

Billed per 10ms active: 25 GiB-hours memory + 375 vCPU-minutes + 200 GB-hours disk included/month in the $5 Workers Paid plan; overage at listed rates. Scale-to-zero.

Cloudflare Containers scores 4.8/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Paid — $0.0000025/GiB-s memory, $0.000020/vCPU-s, $0.00000007/GB-s disk (in $5 Workers Paid). Billed per 10ms active: 25 GiB-hours memory + 375 vCPU-minutes + 200 GB-hours disk included/month in the $5 Workers Paid plan; overage at listed rates. Scale-to-zero.

Category Functions Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.8 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.8/10

value = 4.8/100

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Invocation value 1/10

value = 0.01 ×

fixed_log_v1

Runtime fit 9/10

value = 9/100

policy_score_v1

Deploy friction 8/10

value = 8/100

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Key metrics

$20u/vCPU-s

$2.5u/GiB-s

25 GiB-h

What you get

Paid — $0.0000025/GiB-s memory, $0.000020/vCPU-s, $0.00000007/GB-s disk (in $5 Workers Paid). Billed per 10ms active: 25 GiB-hours memory + 375 vCPU-minutes + 200 GB-hours disk included/month in the $5 Workers Paid plan; overage at listed rates. Scale-to-zero.

~50,000 vCPU-seconds (~13.9 vCPU-hours) per $1 of overage; integrated with the Workers edge and no extra plan fee beyond the $5 Workers Paid base.

Gotchas

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Sources

"Workers Paid | 25 GiB-hours/month included +$0.0000025 per additional GiB-second | 375 vCPU-minutes/month + $0.000020 per additional vCPU-second | 200 GB-hours/month +$0.00000007 per additional GB-second"
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/
"Containers are billed for every 10ms that they are actively running ... You only pay for what you use"
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/

paid value serverless-functions

Open service ← All Functions

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