Cloudflare Workers pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Cloudflare Workers (cloudflare.com) is a hosting platform. $5 minimum with included requests and CPU time; no egress fees. Free plan: 100k requests a day.
What Cloudflare Workers costs
- Entry plan: $5/mo
- Small app: $5/mo
Plan compared: Workers Paid, $5 minimum. Cheapest paid plan per month (per seat where plans are seat-based).
Cloudflare Workers price hikes
No price hikes on record for Cloudflare Workers.
Cheaper alternatives to Cloudflare Workers
At the entry plan, Cloudflare Workers costs $5/mo. 1 hosting platform costs less:
- Fly.io: $2.19/mo (Smallest Machine, 256 MB)
Cloudflare Workers alternatives: 8 hosting platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jan 7, 2026 · Price increase: Storage billing began for SQLite-backed Durable Objects beyond 5 GB-month.
- Mar 1, 2024 · Repriced: Bundled and Unbound usage models replaced by CPU-time pricing for all accounts.
Sources
Pricing page: developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Small app assumes serverless traffic within the included requests and CPU time. Workers can't run an always-on process; one always-on basic Container (1 GiB) would add about $7–8/mo. Workers Logs moves to Cloudflare Observability pricing on Dec 1, 2026.