CF
Cloudflare
Workers, R2 storage and D1 — billed on CPU time, with zero egress fees.
The one provider on this list with genuinely zero egress fees — Workers bill CPU execution time, not wall-clock time, so idle-waiting-on-a-database costs nothing. The trade-off is a different mental model than a traditional server.
Best for
High-traffic or high-egress apps where bandwidth costs dominate on every other provider.
How it bills
CPU-time billing for compute (not wall time), zero egress fees, per-GB storage for R2/D1.
Strengths
- +Zero egress fees — the biggest differentiator here
- +CPU-time billing means idle I/O time is free
Trade-offs
- −Workers' execution model differs from a traditional server — not a drop-in lift-and-shift
- −D1 is SQLite-compatible, not a full MySQL/Postgres replacement