Cloudflare Containers (free tier question)
- Free allowance
- Cloudflare's machine product is paid; the free Durable Object row is the substitute
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedContainers require the USD 5 a month Workers Paid plan
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Cloudflare's machine product is paid; the free Durable Object row is the substitute unit none; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the Free column of the Containers rate table reads N/A |
| Binding | write-gated Containers require the Workers Paid plan, so the gate is at purchase and not at a quota |
| Identity | card Workers Paid is a subscription |
| Egress | priced per GB with an included allotment on Workers Paid |
| Retention | not applicable: no free plan |
| Interface | ssh a Workers binding |
| Tooling | Wrangler |
| Composes with | none without Workers Paid |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/ | the Free column of the memory, CPU and disk row reads N/A; usage is included with Workers Paid |
More fields 7
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$.per_object_cap.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer$.reliability_notenothing of this kind was observed