CDN, Workers, and Pages — the full edge stack

Hosting & Deploy Partial Integration difficulty·Medium KYC requirement·No KYC required

Pricing:Pages/Workers 免费起,Pro $25/月

Good for

  • Sites needing global CDN, WAF, and DDoS protection
  • Edge functions, KV, and R2 experiments
  • Multi-project teams managing DNS, SSL, and WAF affordably

Not good for

  • Mainland-China-first traffic (no official mainland presence on free plans)
  • Long-running backend processes (Workers have CPU/wall-time limits)

Integration effort

Pages and Workers deploy from GitHub. DNS and CDN take effect once you switch nameservers.

KYC and entity

None.

Payouts to China

N/A.

Privacy / compliance notes

GDPR, CCPA, and PCI DSS Level 1.

FAQ

Is Cloudflare stable in China?

Free plans route through Hong Kong / Japan. Mainland POPs require the JD Cloud commercial offering.

Related tools

Summary

Cloudflare grew from CDN into a full edge platform: Workers, Pages, R2, D1, and Queues. The free tier is unusually generous for indie devs.