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Edge functions are cost effective, the problem is that they are comparing from Vercel.

Vercel is basically a dev friendly wrapper for tier 1 services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35774730

Eg. Vercel is 25x more expensive than eg. Cloudflare Workers. Raw guess would be that their 150$ bill would have become 6$.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37891412

Eg. Image resizing

> Vercel : 5$ / 1000 requests

> Cloudflare : 9$ / 50.000 requests

Edit for comment below:

That's a blog post. I got my info from here:

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

See: image resizing

> 50,000 monthly resizing requests included with Pro, Business. $9 per additional 50,000 resizing requests



$5 / 1k requests... wow. That's like, entirely unworkable for almost all use-cases surely?

Even coming from a backend-heavy world where one request does a lot of work, that's got to be an order of magnitude off the mark at least. If you go for a frontend-heavy setup where there are more smaller requests (in my experience, common, when using things like Lambda), this could be another order of magnitude off again!


Sorry about that. The pricing was about Image Resizing requests ( updated my comment).

On http requests itselve.

Vercel is 2 $ per million requests. Cloudflare is 0,15$ per million requests.

So Cloudflare in this case is > 13 x cheaper.


According to this page at Cloudflare, their pricing is 50 cents per 1000, is that correct? Or is it a different product... https://blog.cloudflare.com/merging-images-and-image-resizin...


50,000 monthly resizing requests included with Pro, Business. $9 per additional 50,000 resizing requests

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ - section: image resizing


Workers are also free for the first 100k every month I believe.


10 million included per month.

On the free plan, it's 100 k. per day included - https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-pricing-scale-to-zero/


Oh, even better. Thanks :)


The free tier gets 100k requests per day, not month. And then for $5 you get 10M or 1M free a month depending on your settings and then you get charged for additional usage.




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