Queues message retention

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

24 hours on Free. Up to 14 days on Paid.

Free plan

24 hours, and it cannot be configured.

4 days by default, configurable up to 14 days.

What it means

A message that expires is still a write and a delete per 64 KB chunk. It is not free just because nobody read it.

What it does to a bill

Retention itself has no separate price on the pricing table.

Sources