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Excellent fit · Deployment
Cloudflare
Workers, Pages, and a global network.
The host to pick for edge apps, static sites, and anything that should be cheap at the start.
- Vendor
- Cloudflare
- Pricing tier
- Freemium
- Best for
- Edge apps and static hosting
- Open source
- No
What it is
Cloudflare sells DNS, CDN, and application hosting. For builders, the relevant pieces are Workers and Pages: edge compute and static or full-stack hosting on Cloudflare's network. Free tiers exist for many products. Workers usage beyond the free allowance is billed.
Many Cloudflare products have a free tier. Workers and higher support plans are paid or usage-based past the free allowance. Confirm the product you mean on the plans page.
Why it ranks
- Global network with a generous free starting point
- Workers for edge logic and Pages for sites
- Useful even when the app is hosted somewhere else, as DNS and CDN
Watch outs
- The product surface is large; Workers and Pages are the parts that matter here
- Edge runtimes are not a drop-in Node server