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Cloudflare Workers vs Azure App Service
Pre-calculated from hand-checked data — Cloudflare checked 2026-08-06, Azure App Service checked 2026-08-06.
The short version
Cloudflare Workers wins more of our comparison points, but Azure App Service still fits if teams in the Microsoft ecosystem — .NET shops, enterprise-adjacent projects, or anyone whose employer already pays for Azure describes you.
Price Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers is cheaper at every stage we model — about $10/mo even for a growing project.
Ease Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers is easier to get running: deploy from Git or with the wrangler CLI; framework adapters handle SSR apps.
Features Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers comes out ahead on 6 of the 15 features we track, versus 5.
What developers say about this matchup
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At a glance
| Cloudflare Workers | Azure App Service | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Static sites and JS/TS apps where bandwidth costs matter or a global edge is a plus. | Teams in the Microsoft ecosystem — .NET shops, enterprise-adjacent projects, or anyone whose employer already pays for Azure. |
| How deploys work | Deploy from Git or with the wrangler CLI; framework adapters handle SSR apps. | Connect GitHub Actions from the portal, push to a local git remote, or run `az webapp up` — runtime stacks for Node, Python, .NET, PHP, and Java are built in. |
| The tradeoff | More platform-specific setup than the git-push hosts — adapters, wrangler config, and Workers-flavored storage. | Capable and git-friendly, but you pay PaaS prices per plan and navigate the most complicated tier system here. |
| Free tier | Free: unlimited static requests and bandwidth, 100,000 Worker requests per day, 3,000 build minutes per month. | F1 Free tier: 1 GB RAM, 60 CPU-minutes/day, no custom domain or SLA. Plus a $200/30-day new-account credit. |
What you'd realistically pay
Cloudflare Workers Azure App Service
| Project stage | Cloudflare Workers | Azure App Service | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just starting | Free Free — Genuinely free for small sites — bandwidth is never billed. | ≈$13.14/mo B1 Basic (Linux) — 1 core, 1.75 GB RAM, 10 GB storage, custom domains and SSL, 99.95% SLA. West Europe pricing. | Cloudflare Workers |
| Steady traffic | ≈$5/mo Workers Paid — Includes 10M requests and 30M CPU-milliseconds per month. | ≈$32/mo B1 + managed PostgreSQL — ~$13 B1 Linux plus ~$19 for the cheapest PostgreSQL Flexible Server (B1ms + 32 GiB storage). | Cloudflare Workers |
| Growing | ≈$10/mo Workers Paid + usage — Extra requests cost $0.30 per million; bandwidth remains free. | ≈$84/mo P0v3 + managed PostgreSQL — ~$65 Premium P0v3 (1 vCPU, 4 GB, autoscale and slots) plus ~$19 for managed PostgreSQL. | Cloudflare Workers |
Cloudflare Workers pricing notes
- No charges for data transfer or bandwidth on any plan.
- Cloudflare sells its own storage (D1 database, KV, R2 objects) with separate free tiers and pricing.
Azure App Service pricing notes
- Prices are West Europe, per App Service Plan (~730 h/month); they vary by region.
- Windows plans cost roughly 4× Linux at the Basic tier because the license is baked in.
- Bandwidth: first 100 GB/month free, then about $0.087/GB.
- Savings plans and reservations cut Premium prices by up to ~55%.
Our ratings
Ease of use Cloudflare Workers
Pricing clarity Cloudflare Workers
Free tier Cloudflare Workers
Scaling Cloudflare Workers
Control
Feature by feature
Cloudflare Workers wins 6, Azure App Service wins 5, with 4 even.
Deploy workflow
| Cloudflare Workers | Azure App Service | |
|---|---|---|
| Deploy from Git push | Yes Workers Builds deploys on push from GitHub or GitLab. | Yes GitHub Actions wired from the portal, local git push, or ZIP deploy. |
| Preview deploys | Yes Preview URLs per version and non-production branch builds. | Partial Deployment slots (Standard tier and up) give staging environments, but no automatic PR previews. |
| Official CLI | Yes wrangler handles dev, deploys, logs, and storage. | Yes `az webapp up` deploys an app in one command. |
| Instant rollbacks | Yes Versioned deployments with one-command rollback. | Partial Slot swaps revert instantly on Standard+; Basic and Free redeploy the old build instead. |
Platform
| Cloudflare Workers | Azure App Service | |
|---|---|---|
| Custom domains + HTTPS | Yes Custom domains with automatic TLS on Cloudflare’s network. | Yes Custom domains with managed certificates from the B1 tier up. |
| Built-in CDN / edge network | Yes The platform is Cloudflare’s CDN — static assets are free and cached globally. | Partial Azure Front Door / CDN integrate but are separate billed services. |
| Serverless functions | Yes Workers are the compute model, running in 300+ locations. | Partial Azure Functions is a sibling product and can even run on the same plan, but it is not part of App Service itself. |
| Docker containers | Partial Cloudflare Containers run alongside Workers but are newer and more limited than a real container host. | Yes Custom containers are first-class on Linux plans. |
| SSH / shell access | No No servers to shell into. | Partial Browser and CLI SSH into the app container — not a VM you own. |
| EU hosting region | Partial Code runs everywhere by default; you can restrict data (not compute) to EU jurisdiction. | Yes West Europe, North Europe, Germany, France, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Spain, and more. |
Runtime & operations
| Cloudflare Workers | Azure App Service | |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic scaling | Yes Scales per request across the whole network with no knobs. | Partial Rule-based autoscale from the Standard tier; smarter automatic scaling needs Premium. |
| Scale to zero | Yes Workers bill per request — idle costs nothing. | No Paid plans bill continuously; only the free F1 tier unloads idle apps (with cold starts). |
| Scheduled jobs | Yes Cron Triggers run Workers on a schedule, including on the free plan. | Yes WebJobs run scheduled and background tasks inside the plan. |
| Managed database | Partial D1 (SQLite), KV, and R2 are managed but Cloudflare-flavored; classic Postgres means an external provider. | Yes Azure Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL from ~$19/month, plus SQL Database and Cosmos DB. |
| Logs & metrics built in | Partial Live tail and Workers analytics included; persistent logs need Logpush or a third party. | Yes Application Insights is deeply integrated — but ingestion bills per GB. |
Watch out for
Cloudflare
- Server-side frameworks (Next.js, Astro SSR, SvelteKit) run through adapters, which have more rough edges than Vercel or Netlify.
- The runtime is Workers-specific: Node.js compatibility is good but not total, and storage means D1, KV, and R2 rather than a classic server.
- The free plan enforces 100,000 Worker requests per day — static requests stay unlimited.
Azure App Service
- A Windows B1 plan costs ~$55/month versus ~$13 for the same tier on Linux — and default tooling sometimes nudges you toward Windows.
- You pay per App Service Plan, not per app: a second plan doubles the bill even if both are nearly idle.
- The free F1 tier has a hard 60 CPU-minutes/day quota that silently stops your app when exhausted.
- Ride-along services (Application Insights ingestion, Defender for Cloud) show up as surprise line items.
- The spending cap only exists on credit subscriptions (free trial, MSDN) — pay-as-you-go has alerts only.
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