Cloudflare's own example: 15 million requests, 80% static

Scenario · workers

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

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Example 2 says 12 million of those requests are static assets and only 3 million invoke the Worker at 7 ms.

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

Static assets are the free path

A request that only returns a static asset is free and unlimited on both plans. Put HTML, CSS, and images there when they do not need Worker code. The request and CPU meters start when a Function or Worker runs, including a cache miss that invokes the Worker.

Read this before you trust the total

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

$5.00 · 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.

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.
  • Everything you entered fits inside the included allowances, so you pay only the minimum.

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