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When does the Queues Free plan run out in a day?

Scenario · workers

Reviewed 2026-10-25 · against the official Cloudflare pricing pages listed under Sources

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Nine hundred thousand operations in a month is 30,000 on an even day, three times the 10,000 daily included operations. The pricing page does not turn that into a charge.

On the Free plan this model comes to $0.00. The other plan, with the same inputs, comes to $5.00. The 30-day month is the same length R2 uses in its storage example. Daily free caps are not monthly pools.

The Free plan fails closed

Workers, KV, D1, Queues, and Durable Objects do not publish Free overage prices. Past the daily cap, the call fails. R2 is the exception in this calculator: its monthly free tier is published next to Standard rates, so storage and operations above that tier are billed even without the $5 plan.

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Free plan lines at $0 can still be an outage: error 1027, error 1102, or a D1 quota error. R2 above its monthly free tier is billed on both plans. Durable Object requests round up to the next million, as in Cloudflare's own Example 1, which bills 500,000 requests as 1 million.

This model

$0.00 · Free

Free quotas for Workers, KV, D1, Queues, and Durable Objects reset at 00:00 UTC. A month that averages under the cap can still fail on one busy day. R2 is different: its free tier is monthly, and usage above it is billed on both plans.

This exceeds the published Free cap. The calculator does not turn that into a charge. 30,000 versus a cap of 10,000.

Worker requests
$0.00

Free cap 100,000 per day. This monthly total averages 10,000 per day across 30 days. The line is $0.00. The Free plan has no request overage price. Above 100,000 requests in a UTC day, Cloudflare returns error 1027. Requests served as static assets are free and unlimited, so they should not be included in this request count.

Worker CPU time
$0.00

Published cap 10. The line is $0.00 because this Free meter is not billed as overage. Each Free plan invocation may use 10 ms of CPU. This line is not a monthly pool, and it is not billed.

Queue operations
$0.00

Free cap 10,000 per day. This monthly total averages 30,000 per day across 30 days. The line is $0.00. Each 64 KB chunk of a write, read, or delete is one operation. 1 KB is 1,000 bytes, and about 100 bytes of metadata count toward the size. A normal delivery is 3 operations: write, read, and delete. Retries add more reads. The paid rate is prorated at $0.40 per million after 1 million operations. The Free plan includes 10,000 operations per day and keeps messages for 24 hours. No Free overage rate is published.

Assumptions

  • A 30-day month and steady traffic across it.
  • Rates as published on 2026-10-25; taxes excluded.
  • The Free plan does not bill Workers, KV, D1, Durable Objects or Queues. When a daily cap is reached, requests fail until 00:00 UTC instead of costing more.

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