Edge

Anti-bot for every form: a CAPTCHA replacement most visitors never notice, free and unlimited. With a Worker and Resend, it's a contact form with no form service at all.

Pricing: Free: unlimited challenges, up to 20 widgets per account, 10 hostnames per widget. Enterprise adds unlimited widgets and removes the branding.

The edge primitive. It sits between your users and your real backend, and it's very, very good at that.

Pricing: $5 a month per account, including 10M requests and 30M CPU-ms. Then $0.30 per million requests and $0.02 per million CPU-ms. Billed on CPU time only: waiting is free. No egress charges.

The framework I'd pick for content sites that need server rendering. Static by default, server-rendered where a page needs it, and owned by Cloudflare, so Workers is its home.

Pricing: Free (MIT). You pay Workers pricing for the pages rendered on request; static pages are free on Cloudflare.

A tiny server with its own SQLite database, addressed by name. One referee for everyone connected to the same thing. Unbeatable for live, shared, short-lived state.

Pricing: On Workers Paid: 1M requests included, then $0.15 per million. Duration: 400,000 GB-s included, then $12.50 per million GB-s (always billed at 128 MB, not billed while hibernating). Incoming WebSocket messages count 20:1; outgoing messages are free. Rows written: 50M included, then $1 per million. Storage: 5 GB included, then $0.20/GB-month.

Server-rendered Next.js without Vercel. The OpenNext adapter runs a normal Next.js build on Workers: SSR, ISR, server actions, middleware and image optimisation.

Pricing: Workers pricing: Workers Paid is $5 a month with 10M requests and 30M CPU milliseconds included. ISR pages cache in R2.