If my math is not wrong, running a single “standard” container during 1 month (non-stop) would cost ~55$.
This looks extremely expensive for anything other than a simple demo/toy project. I can’t think of a reason I’d use this for heavy services instead of using [anything else]. Maybe I’m not seeing the use-case?
NathanFlurry · 10h ago
A 1 CPU + 2 GB of RAM + 50 GB ephemeral storage on Cloudflare Containers is $74.90.
The same on Fly Machines is $31.00 (performance-1x, varies by region). Fly Machines has the same sleeping functionality as Cloudflare.
Rivet Containers also has a similar price point of $29.40, but takes a different approach to sleeping (opts for optimizing coldstarts + autoscaling over snapshotting). (I work at Rivet)
blixt · 9h ago
I think Modal, which AFAIK has a similar feature set to Cloudflare Containers, also works out very favorably price wise compared to Cloudflare Containers.
Havoc · 4h ago
It’s likely aimed at bursty workloads. ie not one instance but a use case that fluctuates between 1 and 100 instances.
rochoa · 11h ago
Math is not wrong for the standard instance.
This is about using and abusing the _on-demand_ part.
The first example in the Getting started goes with sleepAfter = '10s'.
aiisahik · 11h ago
I don't think you can calculate the cost of serverless compute this way. What containers do you have that run "non-stop"?
If the container doesn't run any workloads, it doesn't cost you anything. Most of the compute i pay for sit idle most of the time.
This is amazing pricing.
develatio · 11h ago
Say I want to deploy a service that is currently receiving 1rps at a constant rate, no upticks, no gaps. Wouldn’t that be the cost? If the answer is “yes”, then no, that is a terrible pricing.
sofixa · 7h ago
Realistically, almost nobody has this type of usage. And for those that do, yes, serverless autoscaling up from zero is not appropriate.
develatio · 7h ago
True. Most services (unless your service is a demo/toy project, as I stated earlier) have way more traffic. It might not be evenly distributed though the day, but if you add all the CPU time in a day, I’m sure it will exceed 24h. So that leaves me with the question for who is this? Developers that are starting and want to deploy something small?
0xy · 7h ago
And the gigantic AWS-tier bandwidth costs. This misses the mark by a lot. Classic example of pricing ruining a launch of decent technology.
It seems like always-on containers are not viable on this, so what's the point?
Egress is $25/TB unlike their other stuff. No thanks
Havoc · 4h ago
Sounds similar to what bunny is offering
Think CF lets you rate limit right?some form of it seems necessary with those egress rates
Zerpiez · 12h ago
Would UDP services and anycast DNS be supported in the future e.g. to be able to run dnsdist or similar services.
NathanFlurry · 10h ago
They stated on the livestream they're considering TCP, but I suspect UDP is not coming soon since Workers themselves don't support UDP. All traffic going to Cloudflare Containers must be "proxied" through the Workers platform.
ttoinou · 9h ago
So can we now host a whole website distributed in all regions on the edge with Cloudflare workers + containers ?
This looks extremely expensive for anything other than a simple demo/toy project. I can’t think of a reason I’d use this for heavy services instead of using [anything else]. Maybe I’m not seeing the use-case?
The same on Fly Machines is $31.00 (performance-1x, varies by region). Fly Machines has the same sleeping functionality as Cloudflare.
Rivet Containers also has a similar price point of $29.40, but takes a different approach to sleeping (opts for optimizing coldstarts + autoscaling over snapshotting). (I work at Rivet)
This is about using and abusing the _on-demand_ part.
The first example in the Getting started goes with sleepAfter = '10s'.
If the container doesn't run any workloads, it doesn't cost you anything. Most of the compute i pay for sit idle most of the time.
This is amazing pricing.
It seems like always-on containers are not viable on this, so what's the point?
(I work at Rivet)
Think CF lets you rate limit right?some form of it seems necessary with those egress rates