That's not the complete story. Cloudflare's main income is DDOS, which is incoming traffic they pay for. They pay for that pipeline (which you pay for up and

That's not the complete story. Cloudflare's main income is DDOS, which is incoming traffic they pay for. They pay for that pipeline (which you pay for up and down traffic), so they have a generous free CDN because they already pay for it. ( Unrelated to workers, ... )