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Cloudflare Workers alternatives
7 serverless platforms compared against Cloudflare Workers on entry plan. Cloudflare Workers is kept in the table and highlighted, because it is the number everything else here is measured against.
List prices checked
Ranked by entry plan
Cheapest first. "vs Cloudflare Workers" shows how many times cheaper or dearer each one is on the same axis.
| # | Service | Provider | entry plan | vs Cloudflare Workers | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare Workersyou are here | Cloudflare | $5.00 | — | 100,000 requests per day, always free |
| 2 | Netlify Functions | Netlify | $19.00 | 3.3× dearer | 125,000 invocations and 100 hours of runtime per month |
| 3 | Vercel Functions | Vercel | $20.00 | 3.3× dearer | Included in the Hobby plan within usage limits |
| 4 | Deno Deploy | Deno | $20.00 | 3.3× dearer | 1M requests and 100 GB of outbound data per month |
| 5 | Fastly Compute | Fastly | $50.00 | 10× dearer | Trial credit only |
| 6 | AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services | — | — | 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month, always free |
| 7 | Google Cloud Run | — | — | 2M requests and 180,000 vCPU-seconds per month | |
| 8 | Azure Functions | Microsoft | — | — | 1M executions and 400,000 GB-seconds per month |
Source: Cloudflare pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.
Questions
- What is the best alternative to Cloudflare Workers in 2026?
- Nothing in this category undercuts Cloudflare Workers on entry plan at list price, which makes it the cheapest option in the table above. The reasons to move would be region coverage, feature set, or avoiding vendor concentration rather than price.
- How many alternatives to Cloudflare Workers are there?
- 7 in this dataset, all serverless platforms with published list prices. The table ranks every one of them on entry plan with Cloudflare Workers highlighted in place, so you can see exactly where it sits rather than taking a "top 5" on trust.
- Is switching from Cloudflare Workers worth it?
- It depends on which axis dominates your bill. Code that runs per request with no instance to provision, billed on invocations and on memory held for the duration of execution. Free tiers are wide enough that many production workloads never generate a bill at all. Run your own volumes through the comparison pages linked below before migrating — a provider that is cheaper per unit can still be more expensive for your particular usage shape.
- Are there free alternatives to Cloudflare Workers?
- 7 of them publish a free tier — they are marked in the table. Check whether each is permanent or a 12-month trial; the two look identical on a pricing page and are very different a year in.
Compare Cloudflare Workers directly
- Cloudflare Workers vs Netlify FunctionsSide-by-side monthly cost
- Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel FunctionsSide-by-side monthly cost
- Cloudflare Workers vs Deno DeploySide-by-side monthly cost
- Cloudflare Workers vs Fastly ComputeSide-by-side monthly cost
- Cloudflare Workers vs AWS LambdaSide-by-side monthly cost
- Cloudflare Workers vs Google Cloud RunSide-by-side monthly cost