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Cloudflare Queues vs Amazon SQS

Comparison · sqs

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

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The webhook inbox is calculated in Queue operations. SQS rates were not copied.

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A billing provider posts 50,000 events a day. The Worker spends 4 ms checking a signature and the queue stores each event as three operations.

Queues bill 64 KB chunks of writes, reads, and deletes. A normal delivery is three operations. Price SQS with its own request definition, not with this three-operation shortcut.

Free Queues stop at 10,000 operations a day. That cap is a failure mode, not a cheap overage.

One delivered message is usually three operations

Queues bill each 64 KB written, read, or deleted. A normal delivery is a write, a read, and a delete. Paid usage includes 1 million operations and then prorates $0.40 per million. It does not use R2's round-up-to-the-million rule. Free accounts get 10,000 operations a day and 24 hours of retention.

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$6.40 · Paid

Workers Paid minimum
$5.00

The $5 is an account minimum for Workers Paid, not a per-product fee. Included usage sits inside it.

Queue operations
$1.40

4,500,000 used, 1,000,000 included. Billable: 3,500,000. Exact charge $1.40, shown as $1.40. 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. Paid retention defaults to 4 days and can be raised to 14 days.

Assumptions

  • A 30-day month and steady traffic across it.
  • Rates as published on 2026-10-25; taxes excluded.
  • The Workers Paid plan has a $5 monthly minimum. It is charged even if you use nothing, and it covers the included allowances.
  • Queue operations adds $1.40 (22% of the bill): you used more than the 1,000,000 included.

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