Cloudflare Workers

Functions 4.8/10

10M requests + 30M CPU-ms/month included; overage $0.30/M requests, $0.02/M CPU-ms. No duration (I/O wait) charge, no egress, edge in 300+ cities.

Cloudflare Workers scores 4.8/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Paid — $5/month minimum. 10M requests + 30M CPU-ms/month included; overage $0.30/M requests, $0.02/M CPU-ms. No duration (I/O wait) charge, no egress, edge in 300+ cities.

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

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Deploy friction 8/10

value = 8/100

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Key metrics

$5/mo min

10M req

30M CPU-ms

What you get

Paid — $5/month minimum. 10M requests + 30M CPU-ms/month included; overage $0.30/M requests, $0.02/M CPU-ms. No duration (I/O wait) charge, no egress, edge in 300+ cities.

~2M requests per $1 of overage; first 10M requests effectively free inside the $5 base. Among the cheapest per-request edge compute available.

Gotchas

No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.

Sources

"The Workers Paid plan includes Workers, Pages Functions, Workers KV, Hyperdrive, and Durable Objects usage for a minimum charge of $5 USD per month for an account."
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/
"10 million included per month +$0.30 per additional million ... 30 million CPU milliseconds included per month +$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds"
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/

paid value serverless-functions

Open service ← All Functions

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