About
Cloudflare Workers is a serverless compute platform that lets teams deploy code at the edge close to users and data. It is designed to help developers ship applications, APIs, and AI-powered experiences without managing traditional infrastructure.
The platform supports global execution across Cloudflare’s network and integrates with adjacent services for storage, state, routing, and observability. It is built for fast deployment, low-latency delivery, and operational simplicity at scale.
- Deploy serverless functions and edge applications globally.
- Run code close to users, databases, and APIs for lower latency.
- Integrate with Cloudflare primitives such as Durable Objects, R2, KV, and AI services.
- Support modern development workflows with templates, docs, and one-command deployment.
Free Tier Value
The pricing page shows Cloudflare Workers as part of a Free plan at $0/month, with no credit card needed, and also states 'Free to try' plus 'Start building for free — no credit card required.' However, the page does not provide a concrete free-credit amount or trial duration, so those signals are null. Because the free tier includes substantial core network/security features but paid plans add meaningful extras like image optimization, AMP, PCI compliance, and SLA guarantees, feature parity is set conservatively at 50%.
What's included in the free tier
- Fast, easy-to-use DNS included at no cost.
- Unmetered DDoS protection included on the free plan.
- CDN access included on the free plan.
- Universal SSL certificate included on the free plan.
- Free managed ruleset included on the free plan.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) included on the free plan.
- Single-Sign-On (SSO) support included on the free plan.
- Role-based account control included on the free plan.
See Cloudflare Workers pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- For professional websites that aren't business-critical
- Includes the same core network/security features as Free
- Adds lossless image optimization
- Adds AMP support
Business
- uptime_sla
- 100%
- uptime_service_credits
- 1x
- For small businesses operating online
- Adds PCI DSS 4.0 compliance
- Adds 100% uptime SLA
- Adds uptime service credits
Contract
- uptime_sla
- 100%
- uptime_service_credits
- 10x (Standard); 25x (Premium)
- For mission-critical applications that are core to your business
- Custom enterprise contract
- Adds 100% uptime SLA
- Adds higher uptime service credits
Pricing extracted from Cloudflare Workers's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
