Cloudflare Workers

Who it is for

For developers and individuals. It runs on the web. License: Proprietary. It is in the Infrastructure group.

What you pay

Free plan: Workers Free is $0. It includes 100,000 requests a day and 10 milliseconds of CPU time per invocation. D1 on the free plan includes 5 GB and 10 databases. R2's free tier includes 10 GB-month of Standard storage. The paid Workers plan is a $5 monthly minimum and includes 10 million requests a month. Free D1 stops queries after 5 million rows read or 100,000 rows written in a day. Hosted price: Workers Free is $0. Workers Paid is a $5 monthly minimum. Checked November 11, 2026. Above the included 10 million requests, the paid plan lists $0.30 per extra million. CPU time above 30 million milliseconds is $0.02 per extra million. D1 and R2 bill on their own pages. R2 Standard storage is $0.015 per GB-month after 10 GB-month. It does not run on a computer you control. The pricing page is for Workers on Cloudflare's network. This listing did not find a supported install of the hosted product.

How to switch

• Compared with Val Town. Its price on file: Billing paused on November 10, 2026. Existing subscriptions are serviced free. A prepaid annual plan gets a partial refund. The post does not print a dollar price.

  What you give up: edit the code in the browser.

  Free alternatives to Val Town·Move from Val Town to Cloudflare Workers

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

• 92
  Instead of Val Town7 of 7 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: edit the code in the browser.The secrets page shows a fetch handler that returns a Response. That is the HTTP entry.The TypeScript page, updated October 27, 2026, says TypeScript is a first-class language and that Workers APIs are typed.Cron Triggers map a cron expression to a scheduled handler. The docs say changes can take up to 15 minutes to propagate, and triggers run on UTC.The D1 overview calls it a serverless database with SQLite's SQL semantics, on Free and Paid plans. Val Town's Cloudflare SQLite guide says a raw SQLite file cannot be imported directly.R2 is object storage. The pricing page, updated October 30, 2026, includes 10 GB-month, 1 million Class A operations, and 10 million Class B operations a month before charges.Secrets are encrypted bindings read from env. The docs also distinguish plaintext variables from secrets and say not to commit .dev.vars.The pages checked here deploy with Wrangler or a git push. They do not show a browser editor that is the place you keep the val.

Related alternatives

Infrastructure alternatives

• Free alternatives to Auth0
• Free alternatives to Glitch
• Free alternatives to Heroku
• Free alternatives to Val Town
• Zitadel: An identity server written in Go.
• Authelia: Two-factor login in front of your apps.

Free apps in this group

• Authelia: Two-factor login in front of your apps.
• Authentik: An identity provider with an MIT core.
• CapRover: A PaaS with a web UI and Let's Encrypt.
• Coolify: A place you run yourself for apps and databases.
• Dokku: A small PaaS on one Linux host.
• Keycloak: Hosted login, OIDC, SAML, and a user directory.
• Kubero: A PaaS panel on Kubernetes.
• Netlify Functions: TypeScript functions, scheduled functions, and blobs. The built-in database is Postgres.
• Render: A Node web service and a cron job. Free services spin down. No object storage on the price page.
• SuperTokens: Login recipes with an Apache core.
• Vercel Functions: TypeScript functions, cron, and Blob on Vercel. Hobby cron runs once a day. No SQLite product.
• Windmill: An AGPL script runner with a web IDE, schedules, and webhooks. Not a site host.
• YunoHost: A server distribution with an app catalog.
• Zitadel: An identity server written in Go.

Switch guides

• Move from Val Town to Cloudflare Workers

Where we looked

• https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/languages/typescript/
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/cron-triggers/
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/secrets/
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing/
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/