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
Cloudflare Queues is listed as available on Free and Paid plans, with the free tier including 10,000 standard operations per day and 24-hour message retention. The paid Workers plan includes 1,000,000 operations/month and then charges $0.40 per million operations, so the conservative free-tier value is the included 10,000/day × 30 days = 300,000 operations/month, which at the paid marginal rate is $0.12/month; however, because the page also states the paid plan includes 1,000,000 operations/month, the free tier’s recurring value is best represented as the avoided overage floor of $0.40 only if you assume any usage beyond the included monthly allotment. Using the explicit free-cap-to-paid-rate rule, the free tier value is conservatively $0.40/month.
What's included in the free tier
- 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
- standard operations included
- 1,000,000/month
- message retention
- 4 days default, up to 14 days
- operation charge
- $0.40/million operations
- 1,000,000 standard operations included per month
- No data transfer (egress) or throughput (bandwidth) charges
- Message retention configurable up to 14 days
- Supports batching, retries, delays, dead letter queues, and pull consumers
Pricing extracted from Cloudflare Queues's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
