AWS Lambda vs Cloudflare Workers: Pricing Comparison 2026
Side-by-side pricing comparison of AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers. See all plans, features, and costs at a glance.
Bottom line: AWS Lambda starts at $2.1e-9/mo, making it $5/mo cheaper than Cloudflare Workers ($5/mo). Cloudflare Workers offers a free plan.
Last updated: June 15, 2026
AWS Lambda vs Cloudflare Workers: Quick Pricing Facts
| Feature | AWS Lambda | Cloudflare Workers |
|---|---|---|
| Starting Price | $2.1e-9/mo | $5/mo |
| Number of Plans | 50 | 4 |
| Free Tier | No | Yes |
| Pricing Model | usage-based | freemium |
| Annual Discount | N/A | N/A |
AWS Lambda is the more affordable option, starting at $2.1e-9/mo compared to Cloudflare Workers' $5/mo. Both are Hosting & Infra tools with 54 combined pricing plans and 0 features compared.
Cloudflare Workers stands out with a free plan for getting started. AWS Lambda uses usage-based pricing while Cloudflare Workers uses freemium pricing, which may affect your total cost at scale.
Review the detailed tier-by-tier comparison above to see exactly which features are included at each price point and find the best fit for your Hosting & Infra needs.
| Pricing Plans |  AWS Lambda Try free |  Cloudflare Workers Try free |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | x86 Price Custom pricing | Workers Free $0/monthCheapest |
| Tier 2 | First 6 Billion GB-seconds / month $0/month | $0/mo $0/monthCheapest |
| Tier 3 | Next 9 Billion GB-seconds / month $0/monthCheapest | Workers Paid Custom pricing |
| Tier 4 | Over 15 Billion GB-seconds / month $0/monthCheapest | Starting at $5/mo $5/month |
| Tier 5 | Arm Price Custom pricing | - |
| Tier 6 | First 7.5 Billion GB-seconds / month $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 7 | Next 11.25 Billion GB-seconds / month $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 8 | Over 18.75 Billion GB-seconds / month $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 9 | 128 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 10 | 512 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 11 | 1024 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 12 | 1536 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 13 | 2048 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 14 | 3072 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 15 | 4096 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 16 | 5120 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 17 | 6144 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 18 | 7168 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 19 | 8192 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 20 | 9216 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 21 | 10240 $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 22 | Durable Operations Custom pricing | - |
| Tier 23 | Operations such as Steps, Waits, and Callbacks $8/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 24 | Storage Custom pricing | - |
| Tier 25 | Data Written $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 26 | Data Retained $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 27 | Total compute (seconds) $1000000/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 28 | Total compute (GB-s) $32000000/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 29 | Billable compute $32000000/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 30 | Compute cost $31600000/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 31 | Total requests Custom pricing | - |
| Tier 32 | Billable requests $2000000/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 33 | Request cost $1/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 34 | Operations $1/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 35 | Operations cost $4/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 36 | Data written cost $104/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 37 | Storage (running incl. 7 day wait) $104/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 38 | Storage (retained 14 days) $104/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 39 | Data Retained cost $24/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 40 | Total charges $421/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 41 | Tenant isolated enviroments (x86) $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 42 | Tenant isolated enviroments (ARM) $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 43 | Ephemeral Storage $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 44 | Cache $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 45 | Restore $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 46 | Processed Bytes $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 47 | SQS $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 48 | MSK or Self-Managed Kafka $0/monthCheapest | - |
| Tier 49 | Requests Custom pricing | - |
| Tier 50 | Duration $0/monthCheapest | - |
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Which Should You Choose?
Choose AWS Lambda if:
- •Lambda integrates natively with 200+ AWS services - S3, DynamoDB, SQS, API Gateway, and EventBridge form a complete serverless backend
- •Support for any runtime (Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Java, .NET, Ruby, custom) - Cloudflare Workers only supports JavaScript/TypeScript and WASM
- •Lambda functions can run for up to 15 minutes with up to 10GB memory - suited for heavy computation, ETL jobs, and image/video processing
- •AWS's Step Functions orchestrate complex multi-step workflows with error handling, retries, and parallel execution - a capability Workers lacks
Choose Cloudflare Workers if:
- •Cloudflare Workers start in under 5ms with zero cold starts - Lambda cold starts range from 100ms to several seconds depending on runtime
- •Workers run in 300+ edge locations globally by default - Lambda runs in a single region unless you configure Lambda@Edge (which has limitations)
- •The free tier includes 100,000 requests per day - Lambda Free Tier is 1M requests per month but with 400,000 GB-seconds compute
- •Workers cost $0.50 per million requests on the paid plan - Lambda costs $0.20 per million requests plus separate charges for compute duration
AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers are both serverless compute platforms, but they are optimized for different use cases. Lambda is a general-purpose serverless platform integrated into AWS's massive ecosystem. Workers is an edge-first platform optimized for low-latency request handling. AWS Lambda Free Tier includes 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute per month. Beyond free tier, Lambda costs $0.20 per million requests plus $0.0000166667 per GB-second of compute. Lambda supports 12+ runtimes, runs for up to 15 minutes per invocation, and can use up to 10GB of memory. Lambda's power comes from AWS integration - trigger from S3 uploads, process SQS queues, respond to API Gateway requests. Cloudflare Workers Free includes 100,000 requests per day (3M/month) with 10ms CPU time per invocation. Workers Paid at $5/month includes 10 million requests with 50ms CPU time. Workers run JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly only. Execution is limited to lightweight request-response patterns - no long-running processes. Workers' advantage is edge execution with zero cold starts across 300+ global locations. For API backends, webhooks, and lightweight request processing that needs global low latency, Workers are faster and cheaper. For heavy compute tasks, complex event processing, long-running jobs, or anything that needs deep AWS integration, Lambda is the only option. Many architectures use both: Workers at the edge for routing, caching, and authentication, with Lambda behind them for business logic that needs AWS services.
Frequently Asked Questions: AWS Lambda vs Cloudflare Workers
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Sources
- AWS Lambda Official Pricing- Vendor pricing page
- Cloudflare Workers Official Pricing- Vendor pricing page
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