Cloudflare Queues pricing and limits
iScoreMessage queue on Cloudflare Workers, billed per 64 KB operation with no egress or throughput charges.
Cloudflare Queues pricing at a glance
- Pricing model
- Billed per operation, not per message: one operation per 64 KB written, read or deleted, and a message larger than 64 KB counts as several source ↗
- What the free plan includes
- The first 1,000,000 standard operations a month are not billed; beyond that the rate is $0.40 per million, and each message costs three… source ↗
Who it suits
Workers applications that want a queue with no egress or throughput charges and a retention window measured in days rather than hours.
Consider something else if…
Billing is per 64 KB operation rather than per message, so a large payload or a chatty retry loop costs several times what the message count suggests.
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Cloudflare Queues pricing
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- Queues Pricing — Cloudflare ↗
“Free Usage Billed Usage Price Standard operations”
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- Queues pricing — Cloudflare Docs ↗
“Workers Free Workers Paid Standard operations 10,000 operations/day included 1,000,000 operations/month included + $0.40/million operations”
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- Queues Pricing — Cloudflare ↗
“you can use the following formula to estimate your monthly bill: ((Number of Messages * 3) - 1,000,000) / 1,000,000 * $0.40”
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- Pricing — Cloudflare Queues docs ↗
“An operation is counted for each 64 KB of data that is written, read, or deleted. [...] Standard operations 10,000 operations/day included 1,000,000 operations/month included + $0.40/million operations [...] In most cases, it takes 3 operations to deliver a message: 1 write, 1 read, and 1 delete.”
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Infrastructure
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- Queues Service Level Agreement — Cloudflare ↗
“applies to use of queues only [...] cloudflare will provide a monthly uptime percentage of 99.9% for customer's use of queues”
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Queues
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- Pricing — Cloudflare Queues docs ↗
“1,000,000 operations/month included + $0.40/million operations [...] An operation is counted for each 64 KB of data that is written, read, or deleted. [...] In most cases, it takes 3 operations to deliver a message [...] 10,000 operations/day included”
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- Queues limits — Cloudflare Docs ↗
“Feature Limit Queues 10,000 per account Message size 128 KB 1 Message retries 100 Maximum consumer batch size 100 messages [...] Messages can include up to ~100 bytes of internal metadata that counts towards total message limits.”
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- Queues pricing — Cloudflare Docs ↗
“Message retention 24 hours (non-configurable) 4 days default, configurable up to 14 days”
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- Queues limits — Cloudflare Docs ↗
“visibilityTimeout (pull-based queues) 12 hours delaySeconds (when sending or retrying) 24 hours”
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- Queues limits — Cloudflare Docs ↗
“Per-queue message throughput 5,000 messages per second 2 Message retention period 3 Configurable up to 14 days. Per-queue backlog size 4 25GB Concurrent consumer invocations 250 push-based only Consumer duration (wall clock time) 15 minutes”
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- Pricing — Cloudflare Queues docs ↗
“Messages that reach the maximum retries and that are written to a Dead Letter Queue incur a write operation for each 64 KB chunk.”
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Cloudflare Queues pricing questions
How does Cloudflare Queues charge?
Billed per operation, not per message: one operation per 64 KB written, read or deleted, and a message larger than 64 KB counts as several. Cloudflare states a normal delivery takes three operations — one write, one read, one delete — so a million messages is nearer three million operations. Workers Paid includes 1,000,000 operations a month, then $0.40 per million; the free plan allows 10,000 a day.
Does Cloudflare Queues have a free tier?
Yes. The first 1,000,000 standard operations a month are not billed; beyond that the rate is $0.40 per million, and each message costs three operations.
Queues Pricing — Cloudflare · read
What uptime does Cloudflare Queues guarantee?
99.9% monthly uptime, in a dedicated Queues SLA that applies to use of Queues only and names no plan tier, with the same precedence clause as the R2 and Workers SLAs. The remedy is a credit set as a percentage of the fees paid for that product in the preceding 30 days, so the commitment stands on a free account while the compensation for breaching it is worth nothing there.
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