Cloudflare Tunnel (named)
- Free allowance
- Unlimited tunnels and unmetered transit; 1,000 tunnels per account
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe hostname must be a zone on Cloudflare nameservers
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | unlimited tunnels and unmetered transit; 1,000 tunnels per account unit unlimited; metered on identity-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
counts of things, not rates, so no vocabulary kind names them: 1,000 cloudflared tunnels per account and 25 active replicas per tunnel; 50,000 routes per account, shared with Cloudflare… |
| Binding | write-gated the domain is the only paid element and the gate; the 100 MB body cap binds writes, not reads. |
| Identity | email a Cloudflare account plus a domain delegated to Cloudflare nameservers |
| Egress | unmetered; no bandwidth figure appears among the account limits |
| Per-object cap | 100 MB proxied request body on Free and Pro (413), 200 MB Business |
| Retention | not applicable: the tunnel and its hostname persist |
| Interface | cli, rest cloudflared tunnel run; the hostname is a record on a zone a user owns |
| Tooling | part of the text of Limits, above |
| Composes with | the serving chain for a real hostname: a domain on Cloudflare nameservers -> a named tunnel -> an origin that cannot open a port. Composes with Oracle Always Free as the origin and with R2 behind it, and the scarce link is the domain. |
| Reliability | community reports describe about 20 Mbit/s on tunnel transfers; not reproduced here |
| Notes | 'Unmetered' is a documented absence rather than a quota, so it is not multiplied here. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/account-limits/ | 1,000 tunnels per account, 25 replicas per tunnel, 50,000 routes, and no bandwidth figure anywhere on the page |
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/connection- | Proxy Read Timeout 125 s and Proxy Write Timeout 30 s, both returning 524 |
| 2026-10-22 | community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-tunnel-limits-and-band | Cloudflare staff, 2022-06-21: 'There are no bandwidth limits' |
More fields 3
{
"stale_after_days": 180,
"bytes_transit": "yes",
"transit_note": "cloudflared dials out and Cloudflare relays the request and response bytes"
}