Cloudflare Containers
- Free allowance
- No free plan: the pricing table's Free row reads 'N/A' for memory, CPU and disk; Containers are included only with the USD 5 a month Workers Paid plan
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota375 vCPU-minutes, 25 GiB-hours of memory and 200 GB-hours of disk a month on Workers Paid, then per-10 ms charges
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-25checked 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-25
| Free tier | no free plan: the pricing table's Free row reads 'N/A' for memory, CPU and disk; Containers are included only with the USD 5 a month Workers Paid plan unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
memory and disk bill on provisioned resources while CPU bills on active use only |
| Binding | volume-quota 25 GiB-hours of memory a month at the 4 GiB standard-1 shape is 6.25 hours of runtime, so a container that stays up is gone in a day. |
| Identity | card the Workers Paid subscription at USD 5 a month is a paid plan; no free-tier route to Containers is published |
| Egress | 1 TB included a month in North America and Europe at USD 0.025 per GB after; 500 GB included in Oceania, Korea and Taiwan at USD 0.05, and 500 GB everywhere else at USD 0.04 free allowance: 1 TB (NA/EU) price per tb: USD 25 |
| Per-object cap | largest instance type standard-4: 4 vCPU, 12 GiB memory, 20 GB disk |
| Retention | billing stops when the container instance goes to sleep; the disk is per instance, not a persistent volume |
| Interface | rest, cli Workers binding plus a REST control plane; each container has its own Durable Object |
| Tooling | Wrangler and the Workers runtime; the container is called from a Worker |
| Composes with | 1 TB of included egress in NA and EU is the largest free traffic allowance in this class |
| Reliability | charges start when a request reaches the container or it is started manually and stop when it sleeps; a cold container is billed from its start, not from its first byte |
| Notes | Arithmetic from the published rates: 25 GiB-hours a month at the 4 GiB standard-1 shape is 6.25 hours of a single container; at the 256 MiB lite shape it is 100 hours. The free Workers plan does not include Containers at all, which answers the corpus open question. |
| Evidence note | documented the Free row, the three Workers Paid allotments, the instance table and the egress table were all read on the pricing page |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 7
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | included on Workers Paid: 25 GiB-hours memory, 375 vCPU-minutes, 200 GB-hours disk a month |
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | instance types run from lite (1/16 vCPU, 256 MiB, 2 GB) to standard-4 (4 vCPU, 12 GiB, 20 GB) |
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | egress USD 0.025/GB in NA and EU with a 1 TB monthly allotment |
| 2026-10-24 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | quoted: 'Free | N/A | N/A |' in the vCPU/Memory/Disk table, against 'Workers Paid | 25 GiB-hours/month included ... 375 vCPU-minutes/month ... 200 GB-hours/month' |
| 2026-10-24 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | quoted: 'charges start when a request is sent to the container or when it is manually started. Charges stop after the container instance goes to sleep, which can happen automatically after a timeout.' |
| 2026-10-24 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | quoted instance table: 'standard-4 | 4 | 12 GiB | 20 GB' and egress 'North America & Europe | $0.025 | 1 TB' |
| 2026-10-24 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | the rate table's Free row reads 'N/A' for Memory, CPU and Disk, and the included usage is described as 'part of the $5 USD per month Workers Paid plan' |
More fields 12
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"note": "sleeps after a configurable timeout; billing stops at sleep"
},
"keep_rate": {
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"basis": "charges stop after the instance goes to sleep",
"source": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/"
},
"persistent_storage": {
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"price_gib_month": "USD 0.00000007 per GB-second beyond 200 GB-hours",
"durability": "the runtime disk is per instance",
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"survives_destroy": false,
"max_retention": "unpublished"
},
"network_out": {
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"allow_inbound_listen": true,
"ports": "the container's port through a Worker binding; no public inbound port of its own",
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},
"free_tier_kind": "none",
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"price_arithmetic": "USD 5 a month for the plan; the included 25 GiB-hours is 6.25 hours at 4 GiB provisioned, then USD 0.0000025 per GiB-second",
"term": "monthly"
}