by CloudflareFrontend and app hosting
Serverless apps and sites on Cloudflare’s network for $5 a month per account, with free static asset requests and no data transfer charges.
A full-stack app platform for $5 a month per account, with no data transfer charges, free static asset requests and dashboard SSO on every plan.
Workers bills only the requests that run your code and the CPU time they use: the $5 Workers Paid plan includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds a month, static asset requests are free and unlimited, and the pricing docs say there are no charges for data transfer. The pricing pages list no per-member charge, dashboard SSO is free on all plans, and audit logs are on every plan.
Against 3 other products we reviewed in Frontend and app hosting: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | Cloudflare Workers | Render | Netlify | Vercel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Worth the priceA full-stack app platform for $5 a month per account, with no data transfer charges, free static asset requests and dashboard SSO on every plan. | Saves engineering timeManaged web services, Postgres and Key Value behind one workspace plan, with unlimited seats and audit logs from the $25 Pro plan. | Saves engineering timeDeploys, previews, functions, forms and a database in one credit balance, with unlimited team members on Pro for $20 a month. | Saves engineering timeZero-configuration hosting for Next.js from the team that maintains it, with SOC 2, ISO 27001 and a HIPAA BAA on the self-serve Pro plan. |
| Overall score | 8.6Best | 7.7 | 7.3 | 6.3 |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | –Not measured | –Not measured | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $5/mo | $25/mo | $9/mo | $20/mo |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Seat + usage | Tiered | Seat + usage |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing units | Requests that run code and CPU time | Workspace plan and instances, then bandwidth and build minutes | Credits (bandwidth, requests, compute, deploys) | Developer seats, then metered usage after a $20 credit |
| Free plan | 100,000 requests/day; commercial use not addressed | Hobby: 1 member, 750 free instance hours; not for production | 300 credits/mo, commercial use allowed | Hobby: personal, non-commercial use only |
| 3 developers, 10M requests, 1 TB/mo | $5.12 on Workers Paid, computed | $178.25 on Pro, computed | $155 on Pro, computed | $80 on Pro, computed |
| Data transfer | Not charged | 25 GB on Pro, then $0.15/GB; 1 TB on Scale | 20 credits per GB (about $0.13 at the Pro pack rate) | 1 TB in the included Flat Rate CDN tier; $20/mo tier to 50 TB |
| Seats for people who deploy | No per-member charge listed | Unlimited on Pro, no seat charge | Unlimited members on Pro | $20/mo each after the first |
| SAML SSO | Dashboard SSO free on all plans | Scale ($499/mo) | Enterprise | $300/mo add-on on Pro |
| Spend cap | Budget alerts only; they do not pause usage | Spend limit for build minutes only; usage emails | Stops at your credits unless auto recharge is on | Can pause production deployments at a budget |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both | Both (documents on Pro, under NDA) | Both | Both |
| HIPAA BAA | Not stated | Scale, with 20% added to usage | Enterprise add-on | $350/mo add-on on Pro |
| Runtime logs, entry paid plan | 7 days (Logpush to export) | 14 days (log streams to export) | 7 days | 1 day (30 with Observability Plus) |
| Audit logs | All plans, kept 18 months | Pro (workspace), at least 90 days | Pro, 7-day history | Enterprise |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Cloudflare Workers costs the least here by a wide margin for traffic-heavy apps, with SSO and audit logs on every plan. Plan for budget alerts that notify rather than stop, and an adapter for Next.js. | From its public pages, Render suits teams that want services and databases managed together, with no seat charges and audit logs on Pro. Bandwidth is the cost to watch: 1 TB a month adds $146.25 on Pro. | From its public pages, Netlify suits teams with modest traffic: unlimited members on Pro, a free plan you may use commercially and spending that stops by default. Bandwidth is billed in credits, so data-heavy apps cost more here than on the other two. | From its public pages, Vercel is the compliance and Next.js choice here: SOC 2, ISO 27001 and a BAA on Pro, and zero-configuration Next.js. It scores lower on this rubric because every developer is a seat, Hobby is non-commercial and Pro keeps runtime logs for 1 day. |
Evidence: Cloudflare Workers: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Render: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Netlify: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Vercel: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Review from public pages
Written from Cloudflare Workers's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 15, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
We read Cloudflare's Workers pricing and limits docs, the Workers Builds limits page, the billing, SSO, audit log and compliance docs, and the Trust Hub on Oct 15, 2026; we did not sign up for this review. The pricing page now covers Workers and Pages together, and the docs say Pages Functions are billed as Workers.
The pricing docs work through examples rather than a calculator: one Worker serving 15 million requests comes to $8 a month, and a project where 80% of 15 million requests are static assets comes to $5. Requests to static assets are free and unlimited, duration is not charged, and there is no charge for data transfer. Workers Builds includes 6,000 build minutes a month on paid plans.
Two things stood out. Budget alerts email you when usage-based spend crosses a threshold but, per the docs, do not pause or cap usage; the docs suggest a per-invocation CPU limit to prevent runaway bills. And for Next.js, Cloudflare now recommends vinext, a Vite plugin in beta that reimplements the Next.js API surface, with OpenNext as another path.
$5.12 a month by our arithmetic: the $5 plan plus 6 million CPU milliseconds over the allowance.
vs Netlify: Vercel comes to $80 and Netlify to $155 for the same scenario.
Data transfer and bandwidth are not billed, and static asset requests are free and unlimited.
vs Netlify: Netlify bills 20 credits per GB; Vercel covers delivery with Flat Rate CDN tiers.
Dashboard SSO is free on all plans for a custom email domain, and the pricing pages list no charge per member.
vs Netlify: Vercel’s SAML SSO is a $300-a-month add-on; Netlify lists SSO on Enterprise.
Audit logs are on all plan types and kept 18 months; Workers Logs are kept 7 days on the paid plan, and Logpush exports them.
The free plan allows 100,000 requests a day, unlimited static asset requests and 3,000 build minutes a month.
Budget alerts are informational: they do not pause or cap usage.
Workaround: The docs suggest a per-invocation CPU limit to prevent runaway bills.
Next.js apps run through vinext, a Vite plugin in beta that reimplements the Next.js API surface, or through OpenNext.
The Trust Hub lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS but does not mention HIPAA or a BAA.
The Workers pages do not say whether the free plan may be used commercially; free-plan requests above 100,000 a day return an error.
Workers Paid is a minimum of $5 a month per account and includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds; beyond that, $0.30 per million requests and $0.02 per million CPU milliseconds. Static asset requests, duration and data transfer are not charged. Builds include 6,000 minutes, then $0.005 a minute. KV, D1, Durable Objects, Queues and R2 have their own allowances.
Our scenario comes to $5.12 a month by our arithmetic: the 2 million requests that run code are inside the allowance, the other 8 million are static assets, and 10 CPU-hours (36 million CPU milliseconds) is 6 million over, at $0.12. No seat charges are listed.
Cloudflare describes workerd, the runtime behind Workers, as open source and uses it for local testing. Bindings to KV, D1, R2 and Durable Objects are Cloudflare APIs, so moving an app that uses them means replacing those services.
From its public pages, Cloudflare Workers costs the least here by a wide margin for traffic-heavy apps, with SSO and audit logs on every plan. Plan for budget alerts that notify rather than stop, and an adapter for Next.js.
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| Billing units | Requests that run code and CPU time |
| Free plan | 100,000 requests/day; commercial use not addressed |
| 3 developers, 10M requests, 1 TB/mo | $5.12 on Workers Paid, computed |
| Data transfer | Not charged |
| Seats for people who deploy | No per-member charge listed |
| SAML SSO | Dashboard SSO free on all plans |
| Spend cap | Budget alerts only; they do not pause usage |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both |
| HIPAA BAA | Not stated |
| Runtime logs, entry paid plan | 7 days (Logpush to export) |
| Audit logs | All plans, kept 18 months |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 15, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for Cloudflare Workers yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 15, 2026.
We have not published API calls for Cloudflare Workers yet.
Cloudflare Workers lists 3 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Workers Paid, costs $5/mo.
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-15.
Source: developers.cloudflare.com pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.
We read the pricing, security and docs pages of three hosting platforms on the same day and scored them on the same six indicators. How each one bills, what 3 developers with 10 million requests and 1 TB a month cost, and who should pick which.
