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Cloudflare Workers vs Deno Deploy
Pre-calculated from hand-checked data — Cloudflare checked 2026-08-06, Deno Deploy checked 2026-08-06.
The short version
Cloudflare Workers wins more of our comparison points, but Deno Deploy still fits if javaScript and TypeScript sites, full-stack framework apps, and APIs that benefit from built-in previews, databases, cron, caching, and telemetry describes you.
Price Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers is cheaper at most of the stages we model.
Ease Tie
Both take similar effort to get a first deploy live.
Control Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers gives you more control over the stack — the flip side of the convenience trade.
Features Deno Deploy
Deno Deploy comes out ahead on 3 of the 15 features we track, versus 1.
What developers say about this matchup
First-person discussions from the past three years that compare these products directly. Summaries are paraphrased; follow the source for the full context.
A commenter directly compares Deno Deploy's shrinking footprint and standards support with Cloudflare Workers and other edge hosts.
An Update on FreshAt a glance
| Cloudflare Workers | Deno Deploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Static sites and JS/TS apps where bandwidth costs matter or a global edge is a plus. | JavaScript and TypeScript sites, full-stack framework apps, and APIs that benefit from built-in previews, databases, cron, caching, and telemetry. |
| How deploys work | Deploy from Git or with the wrangler CLI; framework adapters handle SSR apps. | Connect GitHub for builds on every push or run deno deploy from the CLI; framework presets configure common JavaScript stacks automatically. |
| The tradeoff | More platform-specific setup than the git-push hosts — adapters, wrangler config, and Workers-flavored storage. | It runs the Deno runtime, not Node itself, and its two-region managed footprint and $0.50/GB egress overage trail broader competitors. |
| Free tier | Free: unlimited static requests and bandwidth, 100,000 Worker requests per day, 3,000 build minutes per month. | Free: 1M requests, 20 GB egress, 15 CPU hours, 350 GB-hours of memory, and 1 GiB each of volume and KV storage per month. |
What you'd realistically pay
Cloudflare Workers Deno Deploy
| Project stage | Cloudflare Workers | Deno Deploy | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just starting | Free Free — Genuinely free for small sites — bandwidth is never billed. | Free Free — A small app can stay inside the monthly allowance; it pauses if any enforced Free limit is exhausted. | ≈ Tie |
| Steady traffic | ≈$5/mo Workers Paid — Includes 10M requests and 30M CPU-milliseconds per month. | ≈$20/mo Pro — Includes 5M requests, 200 GB egress, 40 CPU hours, and 1,000 GB-hours of memory. | Cloudflare Workers |
| Growing | ≈$10/mo Workers Paid + usage — Extra requests cost $0.30 per million; bandwidth remains free. | ≈$30/mo Pro + request usage — A representative 10M-request month is $20 plus $10 request overage, before any CPU, memory, storage, or egress overage. | Cloudflare Workers |
Cloudflare Workers pricing notes
- No charges for data transfer or bandwidth on any plan.
- Cloudflare sells its own storage (D1 database, KV, R2 objects) with separate free tiers and pricing.
Deno Deploy pricing notes
- Pro overages are $2 per million requests, $0.50 per GB of egress, $0.05 per CPU hour, and $0.016 per GB-hour of memory.
- Pro includes 5 GiB of volume storage and 5 GiB of Deno KV storage; extra storage and KV operations have separate usage rates.
- Free has no paid overage: applications pause when an allowance is exhausted. Free and Pro do not include a reliability SLA.
Our ratings
Ease of use
Pricing clarity Cloudflare Workers
Free tier Cloudflare Workers
Scaling Cloudflare Workers
Control Cloudflare Workers
Feature by feature
Cloudflare Workers wins 1, Deno Deploy wins 3, with 11 even.
Deploy workflow
| Cloudflare Workers | Deno Deploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Deploy from Git push | Yes Workers Builds deploys on push from GitHub or GitLab. | Yes Link GitHub and every pushed commit triggers an integrated build with streamed logs and caching. |
| Preview deploys | Yes Preview URLs per version and non-production branch builds. | Yes Every Git branch has its own timeline and URL, and every revision receives an immutable preview URL. |
| Official CLI | Yes wrangler handles dev, deploys, logs, and storage. | Yes The deno deploy command creates, configures, and deploys applications from a terminal or CI pipeline. |
| Instant rollbacks | Yes Versioned deployments with one-command rollback. | Yes A timeline can be locked to any previous revision to restore it without rebuilding the application. |
Platform
| Cloudflare Workers | Deno Deploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Custom domains + HTTPS | Yes Custom domains with automatic TLS on Cloudflare’s network. | Yes Custom domains include automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates; wildcard domains require Pro or higher. |
| Built-in CDN / edge network | Yes The platform is Cloudflare’s CDN — static assets are free and cached globally. | Yes A built-in HTTP edge cache respects standard cache headers and supports tag-based global invalidation. |
| Serverless functions | Yes Workers are the compute model, running in 300+ locations. | Yes JavaScript and TypeScript applications run in isolated serverless environments that start on demand. |
| Docker containers | Partial Cloudflare Containers run alongside Workers but are newer and more limited than a real container host. | No Deno Deploy builds source code for its own Deno runtime and does not accept arbitrary Docker images. |
| SSH / shell access | No No servers to shell into. | No There is no interactive SSH shell; use build logs, runtime logs, traces, metrics, or the CLI. |
| EU hosting region | Partial Code runs everywhere by default; you can restrict data (not compute) to EU jurisdiction. | Yes Applications can run in the managed Europe execution region, although database residency depends on the selected database. |
Runtime & operations
| Cloudflare Workers | Deno Deploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic scaling | Yes Scales per request across the whole network with no knobs. | Yes The platform automatically starts multiple isolated application instances across or within regions as traffic requires. |
| Scale to zero | Yes Workers bill per request — idle costs nothing. | Yes Idle applications stop after an implementation-selected period between five seconds and ten minutes, then restart on request. |
| Scheduled jobs | Yes Cron Triggers run Workers on a schedule, including on the free plan. | Yes Deno.cron jobs are discovered at deploy time, scheduled by the platform, and monitored in the dashboard. |
| Managed database | Partial D1 (SQLite), KV, and R2 are managed but Cloudflare-flavored; classic Postgres means an external provider. | Yes Provision Deno KV or managed Prisma Postgres, or attach an externally hosted PostgreSQL database. |
| Logs & metrics built in | Partial Live tail and Workers analytics included; persistent logs need Logpush or a third party. | Yes Logs, OpenTelemetry traces, request and outbound-call metrics, filtering, and dashboards are included. |
Watch out for
Cloudflare
- Server-side frameworks (Next.js, Astro SSR, SvelteKit) run through adapters, which have more rough edges than Vercel or Netlify.
- The runtime is Workers-specific: Node.js compatibility is good but not total, and storage means D1, KV, and R2 rather than a classic server.
- The free plan enforces 100,000 Worker requests per day — static requests stay unlimited.
Deno Deploy
- Applications run on Deno rather than Node itself. Node and npm compatibility is broad, including native add-ons and subprocesses, but framework-specific edge cases still exist.
- The managed platform currently has two execution regions, the US and Europe; Deploy Classic had a broader footprint before it shut down in July 2026.
- Free and Pro have no published reliability SLA; a 99.95% SLA is reserved for Enterprise.
- Free-tier apps pause when the monthly allowance is exhausted; there is no paid overage on Free.
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