Cloudflare Queues on Free Plan

Cloudflare has expanded access to Cloudflare Queues by adding it to the Workers free plan. This makes reliable message queuing available to developers at no cost, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for building asynchronous, event-driven applications on Cloudflare's edge platform.

What's Included

Free-tier accounts now get:

• 10,000 operations per day (combined reads, writes, and deletes)
• Support for up to 10,000 queues per account
• Message delivery to Cloudflare Workers or HTTP pull consumers
• Unlimited event subscriptions
• All existing Queues features

Key Limitation

The main trade-off on the free plan is a 24-hour message retention window versus the 14-day retention available on paid tiers. This is suitable for most real-time, transient workloads but may not work for use cases requiring longer message persistence.

Getting Started

Developers can start building with Queues immediately using the official quickstart guide or explore pre-built tutorials to see common patterns and use cases.