Cloudflare Pages vs Deno Deploy
Pricing
Cloudflare Pages: Free tier (500 builds/mo, unlimited bandwidth), Pro from $20/mo
Deno Deploy: Free tier (1M requests/mo), Pro from $20/mo
Description
Cloudflare Pages: Fast, secure hosting for static sites and Jamstack apps with unlimited bandwidth
Deno Deploy: Serverless platform for JavaScript and TypeScript apps, with Node and npm compatibility and built-in Deno KV
Pros
- Unlimited bandwidth on free tier: no surprise bills if you hit the front page of Hacker News
- Global CDN with 300+ edge locations means fast load times everywhere
- Built-in DDoS protection and SSL at no extra cost
- Runs code in lightweight V8 isolates, with faster cold starts than Lambda-style functions
- Free tier includes 1 million requests and 20 GiB of egress a month, plus 5 custom domains
- Deploys from GitHub automatically and supports Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit, Nuxt and other frameworks
Cons
- Cloudflare now recommends Workers, not Pages, for new projects
- Build times are slower than Vercel and Netlify
- Smaller ecosystem: fewer one-click integrations and community templates
- Workers/Functions development experience is less polished than Vercel's
- Only runs JavaScript and TypeScript: no support for Python, Go, or other runtimes
- Vendor-specific KV database creates lock-in if you build on Deno KV
- Logs and traces are kept for one day on the free tier
Details
Cloudflare Pages is the “set it and forget it” hosting option. Unlimited bandwidth on the free tier means you never worry about traffic spikes: if your blog post goes viral, you do not get a surprise bill. The free plan includes 500 builds a month, and Cloudflare’s Pro plan ($20/mo billed annually, $25 monthly) raises that to 5,000. The site you are reading right now runs on Cloudflare Pages.
Cloudflare’s documentation now says “Start new projects with Workers”, describing Workers as its primary platform for building applications and noting that it supports most Pages use cases with a broader feature set. Pages is still offered, and Cloudflare publishes a guide for moving a Pages project to Workers. The tradeoff is developer experience: Vercel and Netlify have smoother workflows, faster builds, and more integrations. But if your priority is reliable, fast, cheap hosting that does not punish you for success, it is hard to beat free-with-unlimited-bandwidth.
Deno Deploy hosts JavaScript and TypeScript applications on Deno’s runtime, which Deno says has full Node and npm compatibility. Connect a GitHub repository and each push deploys automatically, with support for most popular frameworks. You can link an existing Postgres database or provision one from the dashboard, and the built-in Deno KV store gives you persistent data without a separate database.
The current platform, at console.deno.com, replaced Deno Deploy Classic, which shut down on 20 July 2026. The free tier includes 1 million requests and 20 GiB of egress a month. Pro costs $20 a month for 5 million requests, then $2 per extra million, and Builder costs $200 a month. If your stack is TypeScript-first and you want serverless hosting with little configuration, Deno Deploy fits. If you need other runtimes, Fly.io is a safer bet.
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