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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:/

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 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$. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37891412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37891412 Eg. Image resizing > Vercel : 5$ / 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/ https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ See: image resizing > 50,000 monthly resizing requests included with Pro, Business. $9 per additional 50,000 resizing requests

danpalmer 3y ago
$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!
- NicoJuicy 3y ago
  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.
junon 3y ago
Workers are also free for the first 100k every month I believe.
- NicoJuicy 3y ago
  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/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-pricing-scale-to-zero/
  - junon 3y ago
    Oh, even better. Thanks :)
- vlakreeh 3y ago
  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.
shrubble 3y ago
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-resizing/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/merging-images-and-image-resizin...
- NicoJuicy 3y ago
  50,000 monthly resizing requests included with Pro, Business. $9 per additional 50,000 resizing requests https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ - section: image resizing

danpalmer 3y ago

$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!

NicoJuicy 3y ago
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.

junon 3y ago

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

NicoJuicy 3y ago
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/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-pricing-scale-to-zero/
- junon 3y ago
  Oh, even better. Thanks :)
vlakreeh 3y ago
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.

shrubble 3y ago

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-resizing/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/merging-images-and-image-resizin...

NicoJuicy 3y ago
50,000 monthly resizing requests included with Pro, Business. $9 per additional 50,000 resizing requests https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ - section: image resizing