Cloudflare Queues + Cron Triggers

Edge queues plus scheduled Workers

Free tier + paidAutomation & background jobsdevelopers.cloudflare.com

What it is

Cron Triggers run a Worker on a schedule; Queues provides producer and consumer message passing with batching, retries, configurable delays and dead-letter queues. Consumers get up to 15 minutes of CPU time per invocation. Cloudflare Workflows layers multi-step durable execution on top.

Why it earns a slot

If your app already runs on Workers this is the cheapest background stack available: $5/mo covers a million queue operations and unlimited cron schedules, with no cold starts and no separate vendor.

Know before you commit

An operation is counted per 64KB written, read or deleted, so one message typically costs three operations. Workers still cap wall-clock and memory, so heavy or long compute belongs somewhere else.

Getting started

npx wrangler queues create my-queue

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Pricing snapshot

Workers Free: 100,000 requests/day, 10,000 queue operations/day, Cron Triggers included. Workers Paid $5/mo: 10M requests and 1M queue operations included, then $0.30 per million requests and $0.40 per million operations.

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Evaluate Cloudflare Queues + Cron Triggers (https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Edge queues plus scheduled Workers. Cron Triggers run a Worker on a schedule; Queues provides producer and consumer message passing with batching, retries, configurable delays and dead-letter queues. Consumers get up to 15 minutes of CPU time per invocation. Cloudflare Workflows layers multi-step durable execution on top.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): If your app already runs on Workers this is the cheapest background stack available: $5/mo covers a million queue operations and unlimited cron schedules, with no cold starts and no separate vendor.
Watch out for: An operation is counted per 64KB written, read or deleted, so one message typically costs three operations. Workers still cap wall-clock and memory, so heavy or long compute belongs somewhere else.
Pricing: Workers Free: 100,000 requests/day, 10,000 queue operations/day, Cron Triggers included. Workers Paid $5/mo: 10M requests and 1M queue operations included, then $0.30 per million requests and $0.40 per million operations.
Setup: npx wrangler queues create my-queue
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