Cloudflare Workers

Workers is Cloudflare's serverless compute platform. Code runs on V8 isolates at Cloudflare's edge locations, responding to HTTP requests or scheduled events.

Key Features

• Sub-millisecond cold starts (V8 isolates vs containers)
• 100+ cloudflare.com/languages) including JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C, C++
• Workers KV — Global low-latency key-value storage
• Durable Objects — Stateful, coordinated compute for real-time apps
• Queues — Message queuing and async processing
• Cron Triggers — Scheduled invocation
• Smart Placement — Optimizes where Workers run based on origin and user location

Pricing

• Free plan — 100K requests/day
• Paid plan — $0.30/million requests, $0.15/million CPU-seconds

Related

• Deploy Worker — How to deploy a Worker
• Edge Computing — Edge computing concepts
• Cloudflare Kv — KV storage
• Cloudflare D1 — SQL database