Edge compute with the most generous free tier and fastest cold starts
Workers run on V8 isolates, not containers — cold starts are sub-5ms. The free tier (100K req/day) is real, not a trial. Bindings (KV, D1, R2, Queues, AI) make the platform a coherent stack, not just compute. Trade-off: harder to port to other clouds, smaller ecosystem of pre-built integrations than AWS Lambda. Best for edge-native applications, APIs, and developer-tools sites.
Free tier got us to 50K MAU before paying anything.
Auth, API, static, and KV-cached data all on Workers. We hit 50K MAU on the free tier. That's the kind of unit economics no other edge platform offers.
Latency at edge is the moat.
P50 globally under 30ms because we're running at 300+ Cloudflare edge locations. Lambda@Edge cannot match this. For latency-sensitive APIs it's the right answer.
Bindings + Workers AI changed what one engineer can build.
I shipped an AI app with KV cache, R2 image storage, D1 events log, and Workers AI image gen — all from a single worker.mjs. That's the integration story Lambda can't match.
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