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Message queues, with the math.

Successful deliveries without retries.

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.
YOUR COMPARISON, YOUR CALL

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Your workload

Monthly usage. Adjust the assumptions to match your product.

per month

One successfully delivered message generates three Cloudflare operations.

Maximum 1,000,000,000 per month
messages / day

Highest daily message count. Growth charts keep this fixed.

Maximum 1,000,000,000 messages / day
GB / month

Transfer billed by QStash; Cloudflare queue egress is free.

Maximum 1,000,000 GB / month
Estimates are in USD before taxes. Your usage stays in this URL.
Decision guideOne shared workload.
Different trade-offs.
Monthly equivalentUSD · before tax$10.00Lowest in your shortlistPay as you go
Payment commitmentMonthly
Fits this workload?Within modeled limits
What to know

One endpoint and one successful attempt per message. Retries and fan-out increase charges.

Outside the estimate

Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons. Schedules and production pack.

EvidenceOfficial pricing ↗Checked 2026-10-06

Look ahead, before you commit.

Vary monthly messages. Keep all other inputs fixed.

Growth simulation
Upstash QStash
View exact values and assumptions

Each point follows your selected plan. Automatic choices use the lowest eligible supported plan per product. Missing values mean no supported plan fits. This varies one input, not all costs with customer count.

Monthly messagesUpstash QStash
250,000 per month$2.50
500,000 per month$5.00
1,000,000 per month$10.00
2,000,000 per month$20.00
5,000,000 per month$50.00
10,000,000 per month$100.00

Your monthly comparison

2 eligible products in this loaded set · Lowest modeled cost first

USD / month equivalent
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Cloudflare Queues Lowest estimate

Workers Paid + Queues

$5.80/ month equivalent

Prices reflect dated, supported plans. Matching a category does not mean matching features. How estimates work

1 products on your board · Same workload, clearer trade-offs.