Stop paying NINE DIFFERENT BILLS for your shitty todo app. Stop pretending you're an infra genius when you're just bleeding money.
Meanwhile Cloudflare is literally BEGGING you to use their Workers, Pages, R2, D1, KV, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, AI, Vectorize, ALL ON ONE PLATFORM, ONE BILL, AND ACTUALLY GENEROUS FREE TIERS. I started using Cloudflare when working on a Homelab and i love it. it pretty much has everything you will ever need (for most soydevs) all in one flipping place. NOW STOP PAYING FOR THIS BULLSHIT listed below.
CDN
Compared to: CloudFront, Akamai, Fastly
Global anycast CDN with built-in DDoS protection and goated gloabl caching, included by default. o my god turu lob
D1 Database
Compared to: PlanetScale, Supabase, Neon
Serverless SQLite at the edge with automatic replication and 5 million reads/day free.
Domain Registrar
Compared to: Traditional Scams across GoDaddy
Wholesale pricing, no renewal spikes, no upsells, free WHOIS privacy.
R2 Storage
Compared to: Amazon S3, 1Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob
S3-compatible storage with zero egress fees, 10GB free, no bandwidth penalty. which is better than all of the free tiers out there.
Queues
Compared to: SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ
Edge-native message queues with at-least-once delivery and zero egress fees. another important point to note in our head is when serving high frequency data cloudflare's CDN make it even more effortless in serving this.
Pages
Unlimited bandwidth, unlimited sites on free tier, git-based deploys with preview environments and PROD-GRADE CI/CD pipeline with automatic deploys and zero downtime rollouts.
Workers AI
Compared to: OpenAI hosted APIs, Replicate
Edge AI inference with no GPU provisioning, 10k neurons/day free. you might as wtf is neurons, so basically Cloudflare takes a different approach on the AI-BAAS they are offering at workers AI. Because Workers AI runs models across Cloudflare’s global edge network, without you provisioning GPUs, they abstract the infrastructure details away. Instead of exposing GPU seconds or hardware tiers, they measure total inference effort using neurons (such a giga chad move).
Workers
Compared to: AWS Lambda, Vercel Functions
V8 isolates with 0ms cold starts across 300+ edge locations, 100k requests/day free. you only get this level of distributed, low-latency execution when you operate infrastructure that serves half of internet.
Workflows
Compared to: AWS Step Functions, Temporal
Durable execution with automatic retry and resume, no infrastructure orchestration and No worker management required. All of it delivered through an intuitive, high-performance UI.
Respectfully, one platform is all when you have Elite Ball Knowledge
