Cloudflare Pages
Static + edge-functions hosting on the world's biggest CDN, free for almost everyone.
Cloudflare Pages is the answer to "where do I host this static site for free, even if it might go viral." Unlimited bandwidth means a Hacker News front page won't generate a bill. The Workers integration adds edge functions in the same project.
The catch is the development model: Cloudflare Workers run on V8 isolates, not Node containers, so most "just works" libraries from the Node ecosystem don't. For a site that's mostly static with light dynamic enrichment (auth, A/B tests, contact forms), Pages is unbeatable. For a heavy Express/Fastify backend, you'll want Workers' compatibility flags or pick a different host.
Pros & cons
- + Unlimited bandwidth on the free tier — no caveats
- + Cloudflare's CDN is in 300+ cities; latency is near-optimal everywhere
- + Workers (edge functions) and KV/D1/R2 in the same dashboard
- + Wrangler CLI for local dev and deploys
- − Build runners are shared and slower than Vercel/Netlify on cold cache
- − Workers have a different mental model than Lambda — porting Express apps is non-trivial
- − Logs and observability lag behind Vercel's polish
Plans & pricing
| Plan | Price | CPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free 500 builds/month, 100k function requests/day | Free | — | 0 GB | — GB | unmetered |
| Workers Paid 10M function requests included | $5/mo | — | 0 GB | — GB | unmetered |
Free tier: Unlimited bandwidth + 500 builds/month + 100k Worker requests/day
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