Cloudflare Workers handles HTTP requests at the edge without managing servers. It fits small APIs, middleware, and static assets shipped together.
As of 2026-10, Free allows 100,000 dynamic requests per day and 10 ms CPU per invocation. The $5 USD/month Paid account includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU-ms monthly; extra usage is $0.30 per million requests and $0.02 per million CPU-ms. Ordinary static asset requests and Workers egress have no added charge.
CPU time matters as much as request count, and Workers Caching can change how static requests are counted. The demo assumes 5 CPU-ms per request on Paid. Separate products such as Containers are excluded.
When to use
Choose Workers for short edge APIs and assets; compare Cloud Run or Fly.io for containers and long processes, or Pages for Git-driven static sites.