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Cloudflare Workers

Edge-first runtime for low-latency request-path compute (middleware, routing, personalization) close to global users.

Sources linked — see verification below.

Freshness & verification

Last updated 2026-02-09 Intel generated 2026-02-06 1 source linked

Who is this best for?

This is the fastest way to decide whether Cloudflare Workers is in the right neighborhood.

Best for
  • Latency-sensitive web request paths and edge middleware
  • Global products where tail latency affects UX and conversion
  • Teams comfortable with edge constraints and stateless-first patterns
  • Security and routing logic close to the user
Who should avoid
  • You need broad cloud-native triggers and deep integration breadth as the default
  • Your functions need long-running execution or heavy compute per request
  • You want maximum portability without platform-specific edge patterns

Sources & verification

Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.

  1. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/ ↗