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Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel Functions: pricing

Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Functions both bill by resource-time rather than per request. Cloudflare Workers is edge faas (request + cpu-ms) ($0.30 / 1M) and Vercel Functions is faas / fluid compute (invocation + active cpu + memory) ($0.60 / 1M). Snapshot June 2026 — verify on the vendor's pricing page.

Data as of June 2026.

Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel Functions side by side

Sources: Cloudflare and Vercel pricing pages. snapshot captured June 2026 — verify before relying on these.
Cost factorCloudflare WorkersVercel Functions
VendorCloudflareVercel
Pricing modelEdge FaaS (request + CPU-ms)FaaS / Fluid compute (invocation + active CPU + memory)
Per 1M requests$0.30 / 1M$0.60 / 1M
Per GB-secondn/an/a
Free tierFree plan: 100,000 requests/day (about 3M/month), 10 ms CPU/invocation limit. Workers Paid is $5/mo and includes 10M requests + 30M CPU-ms.Hobby (free): 1M invocations + 4 active-CPU-hours + 360 GB-hours memory + 100 GB bandwidth/month, hard-capped. Pro: $20/seat/mo with $20 usage credit; then $0.60/1M invocations + $0.128/active-CPU-hour + $0.0106/GB-hour memory.
Scale to zeroYesYes
EgressFree$0.06/GB
Regions330+ Cloudflare edge locations worldwide (runs at the edge, not a single region).Global edge + regional serverless regions (configurable).

Sources: Cloudflare pricing · Vercel pricing.

Sample monthly cost

A rough monthly total for a sample workload: 5,000,000 requests/month, each ~150 ms at 256 MB of memory, plus 25 GB of egress. Computed after each platform's free tier; excludes platform minimums and regional variation, so treat it as a starting point:

Illustrative only - after free tier, excludes platform minimums and regional differences. snapshot captured June 2026.
ComponentCloudflare WorkersVercel Functions
Compute (after free tier)Usage-basedUsage-based
Egress (25 GB)$0$1.50
Estimated total / monthUsage-basedUsage-based

Verdict

On cost for this sample workload, Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Functions both bill by resource-time rather than per request. But price is not the only factor: Cloudflare Workers (no egress/bandwidth charges, ever) versus Vercel Functions (zero-config deploys for next.js and frontend frameworks). Read each platform's full breakdown — Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Functions — and model your own workload in the calculator.

Frequently asked questions

Is Cloudflare Workers or Vercel Functions cheaper?

For a sample workload of 5M requests/month at 256 MB, 150 ms each plus 25 GB egress, Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Functions both bill by resource-time rather than per request. This is illustrative and after each platform's free tier; your real cost depends on memory, duration, egress and region. snapshot captured June 2026.

How do Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Functions price requests?

Cloudflare Workers: Workers Paid: $5/mo minimum, includes 10M requests + 30M CPU-ms; then $0.30 per additional 1M requests and $0.02 per additional 1M CPU-ms. Billed on CPU time (not wall-clock), so I/O wait is free. No egress charges. Vercel Functions: Fluid compute bills three meters: $0.60 per 1M invocations + $0.128 per active-CPU-hour (only while code runs) + $0.0106 per GB-hour of provisioned memory. Fast Origin Transfer is $0.06/GB. Pro is $20/seat/mo with a $20 usage credit. Snapshot June 2026 — verify on the vendor's pricing page.

Do Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Functions scale to zero?

Cloudflare Workers: yes, no charge when idle. Vercel Functions: yes, no charge when idle. Scale-to-zero saves money for spiky traffic but adds cold-start latency on the first request.

Which has the better free tier, Cloudflare Workers or Vercel Functions?

Cloudflare Workers: Free plan: 100,000 requests/day (about 3M/month), 10 ms CPU/invocation limit. Workers Paid is $5/mo and includes 10M requests + 30M CPU-ms. Vercel Functions: Hobby (free): 1M invocations + 4 active-CPU-hours + 360 GB-hours memory + 100 GB bandwidth/month, hard-capped. Pro: $20/seat/mo with $20 usage credit; then $0.60/1M invocations + $0.128/active-CPU-hour + $0.0106/GB-hour memory.

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Last updated: 2026-06-21