Commercial transition
Previous stateQueues access and its published operational allowance were not included in the Workers Free entitlement.
→New stateEvery Cloudflare account receives Queues on Workers Free with 10,000 operations per day, up to 10,000 queues and unlimited event subscriptions; Free messages retain for at most 24 hours.
Who is affected
Cloudflare Workers Free developers and teams evaluating message delivery without a paid Workers plan.
Action required
Model daily read, write and delete operations, account for the 24-hour retention ceiling and compare paid-plan limits before production adoption.
Evidence boundary
Free availability does not mean unlimited operations or paid-tier retention parity. Cloudflare states a 24-hour Free retention maximum rather than the longer paid retention period.
Timeline
- Free entitlement released
Cloudflare Queues became part of Workers Free with the stated operations, queue and retention boundaries.
Official sources
- Cloudflare Queues now available on Workers Free planCloudflare Developers · 2026-02-04 · Official entitlement changelog