Yes, Cloudflare Queues has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 10,000 standard operations per day included and 24-hour message retention with non-configurable limits. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about <$1/mo.
About
Cloudflare Queues is a message queuing service that helps developers send and receive messages with guaranteed delivery and no egress bandwidth charges. It integrates with Cloudflare Workers to offload work from requests, move data between Workers, and buffer or batch processing for asynchronous workflows.
The service is designed for reliable event handling and background processing at the edge. It supports delivery guarantees, batching, retries, delays, dead letter queues, and pull consumers for external infrastructure.
- Guaranteed message delivery for asynchronous workloads
- Integration with Cloudflare Workers for edge-native processing
- Batching, retries, delays, and dead letter queues
- Pull-based consumers for non-Worker environments
- No egress or bandwidth charges
Free Tier Value
This free tier is capped but genuinely usable: it includes 10,000 operations per day on Workers Free, which works out to roughly 300,000 operations in a 30-day month. At the paid rate of $0.40 per million operations, that allowance is worth about $0.12/month, but the practical value is higher because it also includes the core queueing capability and no egress charges. The offer is perpetual, but a credit card is required to use Cloudflare’s platform, and the free plan keeps the shorter 24-hour retention window, so the overall free-tier value lands around $0.40/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 10,000 standard operations per day included.
- 24-hour message retention with non-configurable limits.
See Cloudflare Queues pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Workers Paid
- operations/month included
- 1,000,000
- message retention
- 4-14 days
- egress charges
- none
- bandwidth charges
- none
- 1,000,000 operations/month included
- $0.40 per million operations beyond the included amount
- 4 days default message retention, configurable up to 14 days
- No data transfer (egress) or throughput (bandwidth) charges
Pricing extracted from Cloudflare Queues's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Cloudflare Queues free forever?
Yes. Cloudflare Queues has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Cloudflare Queues's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Cloudflare Queues's cheapest paid plan is Workers Paid at $0.4 / month.
What is Cloudflare Queues's free tier worth?
Cloudflare Queues's free tier is worth about <$1 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 36/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
