10 tools you can use instead of Cloudflare Workers, ranked by live GitHub stars and npm downloads. Vercel, Coolify and Dokploy are the most used. Stats updated 5 hours ago.
Cloudflare Workers is a serverless platform from Cloudflare that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust functions on its global network. It has a free plan with 100,000 requests a day, and the Workers Paid plan starts at a $5 a month minimum per account. Workers run on V8 isolates, not containers, and have no cold starts.
It is a weaker choice for:
Most used first.
Cloud platform for deploying web apps and frameworks like Next.js, with preview URLs and serverless functions.
Open source, self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway for deploying apps.
Open source, self-hostable platform as a service for deploying apps and databases with Docker.
AWS's platform for building and hosting full-stack web and mobile apps, priced pay-as-you-go.
Web platform for deploying sites and apps from Git, the CLI or AI agents, with functions, storage and Postgres.
Usage-billed cloud platform for deploying apps, databases and cron jobs from GitHub or Docker images.
Platform for running apps and databases close to users globally, billed by the second for compute used.
Platform-as-a-service for deploying apps as dynos, spanning classic Cedar dynos and newer Fir dynos.
Platform-as-a-service for deploying apps from Git or a container registry, from a free static-site tier.
Cloud platform for deploying web apps, APIs, databases and background jobs from a Git repo.
| Tool | Pricing | Free plan | Paid from | Open source | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers | Freemium | Yes: 100,000 requests a day and 10 ms of CPU time per invocation | $5 a month minimum per account | No | None |
| Vercel | Freemium | Yes: Hobby, for personal and non-commercial use, with 100 GB of fast data transfer and 1 million function invocations a month | $20 a month for Pro, including one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit | No | 16.4k |
| Coolify | Freemium | Yes: self-hosting Coolify on your own infrastructure is free forever with full access to all features | $5 a month for Coolify Cloud, connecting up to 2 servers | Yes, Apache-2.0 | 63k |
| Dokploy | Open source | Yes. Self-hosting is free. Dokploy Cloud is paid. | $4.50 a month per server for Dokploy Cloud Hobby | Yes, Apache-2.0, with a proprietary license for the /proprietary directories | 37.8k |
| AWS Amplify | Pay as you go | Yes: AWS Free Tier includes 1,000 build minutes, 5 GB storage and 15 GB data transfer a month for 12 months | $0.01 per build minute (Standard instance) beyond the free tier | No | 9.6k |
| Netlify | Freemium | Yes: 300 credits a month, with a hard limit and no option to buy more | $9 a month for Personal (1,000 credits) | No | 1.9k |
| Railway | Pay as you go | Yes: a 30-day trial with a one-time $5 credit, then a free plan with $1 of credit a month (0.5 GB RAM and 1 vCPU per service) | $5 a month for Hobby, including $5 of usage | No | 621 |
| Fly.io | Pay as you go | Limited free usage may be available for small workloads; primarily pay-as-you-go | About $1.94 a month (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB, running continuously) | No | 1.7k |
| Heroku | Paid | No free dyno tier; the lowest-cost Eco dyno starts at $5 a month | $5 a month (Eco dyno, Cedar) | No | 888 |
| DigitalOcean App Platform | Freemium | Yes: up to 3 apps with static sites and 1 GiB data transfer per app | $5 a month (Shared Fixed instance, 512 MiB) | No | None |
| Render | Freemium | Yes: the Hobby workspace plan, free services with 512 MB RAM and 5 GB bandwidth a month included | $25 a month for the Pro workspace plan, plus usage-based compute, bandwidth and storage | No | None |
Pricing facts come from each tool's official pricing page, with the checked date on the tool's own page.
By GitHub stars, Vercel is the most used alternative to Cloudflare Workers listed on ScratchDB, with 16.4k stars.
Coolify and Dokploy are open source.
Vercel, Coolify, Dokploy, AWS Amplify, Netlify, Railway, DigitalOcean App Platform and Render have a free plan. The table on this page shows what each one includes.
