Edge network with Workers, Pages, D1, R2 and KV for hosting full apps.
Works with AI agents:llms.txtMCPCloudflare's developer platform runs a whole web app on Cloudflare's own global network. The centre of it is Workers: you deploy code with the Wrangler CLI or from Git, and it answers requests in the Cloudflare data centre nearest each visitor. Static assets, server-rendered pages and APIs can all live in one Worker.
The model is different from a Node server. Your code runs inside V8 isolates, lightweight sandboxes that start far faster than a container, but each isolate gets 128 MB of memory and requests are limited by CPU time rather than wall time. A subset of Node.js APIs is built in or polyfilled. Workers support JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust, plus other languages compiled to WebAssembly, and there are adapters for Next.js (via OpenNext), React Router, Astro, SvelteKit, Nuxt, TanStack Start and more.
What makes it attractive to a small team is that storage and services plug in as bindings on the same account: D1 (SQLite databases), R2 (object storage), KV, Durable Objects for stateful coordination, Queues and Workers AI, with Cron Triggers for scheduled jobs. On the paid plan, Containers run images in any language next to your Workers. There are no regions to pick by default; placement settings can move a Worker next to your database instead.
The catch is the runtime itself. Libraries that depend on Node internals, native modules or a full filesystem may not work, and the free plan allows only 10 ms of CPU per request.
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375 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 190 open-source projects that declare it in their code.
HeliconeLLM observability platform and gateway that logs, monitors and helps debug requests acro…“As a proxy, delivering speed with minimal latency is important to us. Cloudflare workers have been essential in our day-to-day operations to provide fast logging to customers across the globe.”
HostingMaker says so +1 · source ↗“Listed in their tool stack on Starter Story”
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Brand.devThe brand api for startups.“Absolutely essential for securing the endpoints.”
HostingMaker says so +1 · source ↗“Listed in their tool stack on Starter Story (other)”
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TriqaiTurn messy bank transactions into clean, structured data“We needed a globally distributed, low-latency API from day one. Cloudflare Workers let us deploy enrichment logic at the edge without managing infrastructure, keeping response times fast for customers across the EU, US, and beyond.”
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ReferentLegal AI Agents Platform for Lawyers and Law Firms“Workers run our public site, edge routing, forms, and launch infrastructure.”
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inbox-zeroOpen-source AI email assistant that triages, labels and drafts replies to help clear you…HostingIn its code +1 · source ↗
ZedA code editor written in Rust with multiplayer collaboration and built-in AI features li…HostingIn its code +1 · source ↗
ComposioGives AI agents access to 1,000+ third-party tools, handling OAuth, permissions and exec…“We use Cloudflare Workers for rapid deployment of multiple infra components, keeping everything fast and scalable.”
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Vamah.aiVibe app builder with free bug fixes, db and PAYG creditsHostingMaker says so · source ↗
IFTTTEvery thing works better together“Cloudflare is the infrastructure layer that keeps millions of websites fast, secure, and online. We chose it because most small businesses don't think about DNS, DDoS protection, or SSL until something breaks, and Cloudflare makes sure it doesn't.”
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KonfideAI Agents with a human expert for hire“All DNS management for konfide.ai — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, A records. Zero downtime. Free tier handles everything a solo builder needs.”
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LaunchSafeAutonomous Pentesting for Modern Applications“R2 storage with zero egress fees — we store security reports without worrying about bandwidth costs. Global CDN makes downloads instant worldwide. Simple S3-compatible API meant we were up and running in minutes. Cloudflare just keeps making infrastructure cheaper and faster.”
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PopAirYour All-in-one AI Copilot for MacOS“Edge-first architecture with Workers gave us global low-latency API responses and R2 storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud providers.”
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VidayaHealthspan score from your wearables, labs, and DNA.HostingMaker says so · source ↗
PrismaTypeScript ORM with a schema file and generated client; also offers hosted Prisma Postgr…“Cloudflare has been instrumental for us to deliver Prisma Optimize productively to our customers.”
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serenitiesConnect your own AI with unlimited prompts and easy deploy“Edge-first architecture. R2 for storage, Workers for compute, KV for config. Zero cold starts.”
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SwytchcodeProduction-Ready Integrations for AI Agents“Cloudflare is simple to use, powerful, and feature-loaded.”
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ChronockScheduling and calendar sync, all in one“Cloudflare Workers gives Chronock a fast global edge for the app, booking pages, and marketing site. Compared with deploying those surfaces separately on Netlify or building more infrastructure on Google Cloud, the Vite integration, deployment workflow, and CDN controls help a small team ship consistently with predictable caching and performance.”
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Hello InboxMaximize inbox placement for email marketing campaigns“We've been using CF for over a decade and it's our preferred tool for managing DNS, security and registering domains.”
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SEORCESEO + GEO for brand discovery, traffic and growth“Cloudflare has been our preferred CDN, secutiry and hosting platform.”
HostingMaker says so · source ↗“Bot protection nobody has to solve. Invisible to real people, which is the only acceptable standard for a form you actually want filled in.”
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ZenVeilFind, understand and fix security issues faster“Cloudflare gave us a reliable foundation for DNS, performance, and security. It allowed us to secure traffic, manage domains, and improve reliability without introducing additional complexity. For a small team, that simplicity was extremely valuable.”
HostingMaker says so · source ↗Open source: a project that declares Cloudflare as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.
233 makers on why they use Cloudflare, in their own words on Product Hunt.
Cloudflare was the right choice for me because it made domain management, deployment, performance, and security much easier to handle in one place. I chose Cloudflare for my domain setup because the interface was simple, fast, and easy to manage. Everything felt organized, from DNS settings to website configuration, which made the process much less stressful. Wrangler was also a big reason. It made deployment and project management smoother, especially when working with modern web infrastructure. Being able to manage and deploy things quickly from the development side saved a lot of time. Another important reason was Cloudflare Workers. They are fast, reliable, and cost-effective, which made Cloudflare a practical choice for my project. The pricing felt reasonable, and the performance benefits were strong. Overall, I chose Cloudflare because it gave me an easy management panel, strong domain and DNS control, fast deployment with Wrangler, affordable Workers, and a reliable infrastructure for both performance and security.
Termi ProtocolSep 2026 ↗Cloudflare was the right choice for me because it made domain management, deployment, performance, and security much easier to handle in one place. I chose Cloudflare for my domain setup because the interface was simple, fast, and easy to manage. Everything felt organized, from DNS settings to website configuration, which made the process much less stressful. Wrangler was also a big reason. It made deployment and project management smoother, especially when working with modern web infrastructure. Being able to manage and deploy things quickly from the development side saved a lot of time. Another important reason was Cloudflare Workers. They are fast, reliable, and cost-effective, which made Cloudflare a practical choice for my project. The pricing felt reasonable, and the performance benefits were strong. Overall, I chose Cloudflare because it gave me an easy management panel, strong domain and DNS control, fast deployment with Wrangler, affordable Workers, and a reliable infrastructure for both performance and security.
Termi ProtocolJul 2026 ↗We chose Cloudflare because it gives us global performance, security, and edge infrastructure in one platform. For a SaaS product, having CDN, edge functions, DDoS protection, DNS, and caching tightly integrated simplifies operations significantly. It reduces moving parts and lets us deploy closer to users without managing complex infrastructure. Alternatives can work well, but Cloudflare’s edge-first model and developer tooling aligned better with our need for speed, reliability, and scalability. For us, fewer layers + global reach made the decision easy.
Cloudflare's R2 storage, KV edge caching, and global CDN make truly unlimited hosting affordable. We serve podcast websites in <10ms globally with zero bandwidth fees, impossible with other's egress costs. Their developer experience (Wrangler CLI, Pages deployment) is unmatched. Cloudflare lets us offer $130/year unlimited hosting profitably while competitors charge more with caps. Essential infrastructure for modern SaaS.
VNYLSep 2026 ↗We wanted one platform where compute, storage, and AI all live in the same place, and Workers is the only one that delivers it. Durable Objects, R2, D1, Vectorize, and Workers AI, even Sandboxes and Browsers are bindings rather than separate vendors with separate bills and separate latency. Every agent we run executes on the edge network, close to the user, with no cold start we ever have to apologize for.
Construct ComputerSep 2026 ↗Themes that recur in makers' words and Hacker News comments, each linked to what it summarises, with how Product Hunt tags its reviews.
Public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024 whose title says "X to Y" — real code changes moving a project from one tool to another, by developers in general. Open a row to see the pull requests.
Vercel → Cloudflare242 PRs
Netlify → Cloudflare125 PRs
Amazon Web Services → Cloudflare39+ PRs
Railway → Cloudflare19 PRs
Render → Cloudflare13 PRsCloudflare → Vercel83 PRsCloudflare → Render16 PRsCloudflare → Netlify15 PRsCloudflare → Amazon Web Services10+ PRs
Cloudflare → Fly.io6 PRsAmazon Web ServicesThe widest catalog of building blocks — Lambda, containers, managed databases, queues — to assemble your own infrastructure.Compare with Cloudflare →On Product Hunt, people weigh it against: Google Cloud Platform, Render, Microsoft Azure, Netlify, DigitalOcean, Upstash.
The free plan allows 100,000 requests a day (resetting at midnight UTC), 10 ms of CPU time per request, 50 subrequests per request and 5 Cron Triggers per account. Over the daily limit, a route either returns error 1027 or bypasses the Worker, depending on its fail mode. source ↗
The limit is CPU time, not wall-clock time; time spent waiting on fetches, KV reads or database queries does not count. Paid plans default to 30 seconds of CPU per request and can raise it to 5 minutes. source ↗
Many of them. Workers provide a subset of Node.js APIs, some built into the runtime and some as polyfills that let a module import but throw if called; newer compatibility dates enable this by default, older ones need the nodejs_compat flag. source ↗
Yes, through the OpenNext adapter. Cloudflare also has guides for React Router, Astro, SvelteKit, Nuxt, TanStack Start, Vue, Angular, Hono and others, plus FastAPI and Flask for Python APIs. source ↗
Workers can now host static assets, APIs and server-rendered pages, and it supports features Pages lacks, such as Durable Objects and Cron Triggers. Static asset requests are free on both, and Cloudflare publishes a guide for moving Pages projects over. source ↗
By default a Worker runs near the visitor, but placement settings can run it next to your back end instead, either automatically (smart mode), by naming a cloud region such as aws:us-east-1, or by probing a database host. source ↗
Yes, with Containers on the Workers Paid plan. Container instances start on demand and are controlled from a Worker, for workloads that need more CPU, memory, a full filesystem or a specific runtime. source ↗
Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at $5/mo (Workers Paid). source ↗
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375 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 190 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗
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