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Cloudflare pricing. Free limits, real cost.
What Cloudflare’s plans include, the limits its own docs state, and what a small project pays there each month. From Cloudflare’s pricing pages, checked Oct 3, 2026.
The plans
The plans a small project chooses between. Larger and enterprise plans are left out.
| Plan | What you get | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Workers & Pages FreeFree | Static files free and unlimited, no bandwidth charge, 500 builds a month. Server code: 100,000 requests a daySource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | Server code gets 10 ms of CPU time per request on the free plan.Up to 5 scheduled triggers per account, each with 10 ms of CPU time. |
| Workers PaidPaid | $5 a month: 10M requests and 30M CPU-milliseconds, then $0.30 per million requestsSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | — |
| D1 FreeFree | 5 GB, 5 million rows read and 100,000 written a daySource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | D1 is SQLite, not Postgres: the app has to be written for it. |
What a small project pays at Cloudflare
The same example projects as the comparison, priced on each Cloudflare plan for one developer.
Static site
20 GB sent to visitors, 500,000 requests and 10 deploys a month. Compare every provider →
- Workers & Pages Free$0.00 a monthStatic file requests are free and unlimited; no bandwidth charge
Small web app
50 GB sent to visitors, 1,000,000 requests and 20 deploys a month. Compare every provider →
- Workers & Pages Free$0.00 a monthAbout 33k requests a day, inside the 100,000 a day included. No bandwidth charge
- Workers Paid$5.00 a month$5 minimum; requests are inside the 10M included. No bandwidth charge
API with scheduled jobs
5 GB sent to visitors, 300,000 requests and 5 deploys a month. Compare every provider →
- Workers & Pages Free$0.00 a monthAbout 10k requests a day, inside the 100,000 a day included. No bandwidth charge
- Workers Paid$5.00 a month$5 minimum; requests are inside the 10M included. No bandwidth charge
A small database
500 MB of data. Compare every provider →
- D1 Free$0.00 a monthInside the included 5 GB
Price changes at Cloudflare
None recorded since we began checking on Oct 3, 2026. We re-check every month.
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