Facts read November 6, 2026
Cloudflare Workers vs Netlify
Cloudflare Workers is Cuely's default hosting pick when your description doesn't favor either one: very low cost at scale with no egress charges. Pick Netlify if you care most about background jobs and long-running servers.
Side by side
| Fact | Cloudflare Workers | Netlify |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Serverless functions that run on Cloudflare's edge network. | Managed hosting for static sites and frontend frameworks with serverless functions. |
| Free plan | Workers Free: 100,000 requests per day and 10 ms of CPU time per invocation. | Free: 300 credits per month (a production deploy is 15 credits, bandwidth 20 credits per GB), 1 concurrent build, 1 member; the site pauses when credits run out. |
| Paid from | Workers Paid: $5/month minimum per account, including 10M requests and 30M CPU ms per month; then $0.30 per additional million requests. | Personal: $9/month (1,000 credits). Pro: from $20/month (3,000 credits, unlimited members). |
| At 1,000 users | $0/month | $9/month |
| Open source | No | No |
| Self-hostable | No | No |
| Best for | Global low-latency APIs; High request volume on a small budget; Apps already on Cloudflare | Static and Jamstack sites; Astro, SvelteKit and other non-Next frameworks; Teams that want no per-seat fees |
| Watch out | The Workers runtime is not full Node.js; some Node libraries and Next.js features need an adapter. Free plan caps CPU at 10 ms per invocation, and past 100,000 requests a day it returns error 1027 (or skips the Worker, if the route fails open). | When monthly credits run out, the site pauses until the next billing cycle on the free plan. |
Where they differ
The published scores, from −3 to +3, that decide which one Cuely picks for each need.
| Need | Cloudflare Workers | Netlify |
|---|---|---|
| global low latency | +3 Code runs in Cloudflare's edge locations by default. | 0 No particular strength here. |
| keep costs as low as possible | +3 100k free requests a day, then $5/month covers 10M requests, with no egress charges. | +1 Paid plans start at $9/month. |
| traffic comes in viral spikes | +2 Static assets are free and unlimited, and Paid ($5/month) includes 10M requests, then $0.30 per million. On Free, requests past 100,000 a day get error 1027. | 0 No particular strength here. |
| high volume | +2 Per-request pricing stays low at high volume and there are no data transfer charges. | 0 No particular strength here. |
| background jobs or long-running servers | −2 Invocations are CPU-time limited; use Queues or Containers for long work. | 0 No particular strength here. |
| Next.js or React | −1 Next.js runs through an adapter, not natively. | 0 Supports Next.js through its runtime adapter. |
Sources: Cloudflare Workers pricing (read November 9, 2026), Netlify pricing (read November 6, 2026). No vendor pays for placement.