Message queues: cheapest modeled plans
Eligible plans ordered by monthly equivalent at the workload below. A low subscription fee alone does not establish the cheapest total.
What this comparison covers
One delivery per message, no retry or fan-out, payload including metadata below 64 KB. No schedules or dead letters. Producer/consumer runtime, premium support and enterprise SLAs are excluded. HTTP push and Workers-bound queues have different integrations.
Evaluating 2 products from 2 published in this category. USD monthly equivalents, before tax. Features and service compatibility need separate evaluation.
- Monthly messages
- 1,000,000 per month
- Peak daily messages
- 1,000 messages / day
- Monthly transfer
- 10 GB / month
Cost ranking at this workload
2 eligible products. Quote-only, expired and unsupported configurations are excluded from cost rankings.
Cloudflare Queues
Workers-bound delivery priced in operations.
$5.80 / month
Workers Paid + Queues
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $5.00
- Queue operations (1,000,000 included): $0.80
- Three operations per successful delivery: write, read and delete. Payload including metadata stays below 64 KB. No retries or fan-out. Includes the required $5 Workers subscription; share it only within the same account.
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
- Producer/consumer compute, retries, larger payloads, schedules and dead letters.
Workers Paid + Queues: $5.80/month at reference usage.
Upstash QStash
HTTP push delivery priced by attempts and transfer.
$10.00 / month
Pay as you go
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Delivery attempts: $10.00
- Transfer (50 included): $0
- One endpoint and one successful attempt per message. Retries and fan-out increase charges.
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
- Schedules and production pack.
Pay as you go: $10.00/month at reference usage.
Questions before you decide
Which Message queues product is cheapest?
Cloudflare Queues has a lowest modeled cost among the eligible products shown at reference usage. Ties share a rank. This is not a claim about every vendor or workload.