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Cloudways vs Cloudflare Developer Platform

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. Workers, Pages, D1, R2, KV — edge-native serverless

Try Cloudways (free trial) ↗Cloudflare Workers ↗

Pricing tiers

Cloudways

Autonomous — Free Trial
3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
Free
Flexible — DO Micro
DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.
$11/mo
Flexible — DO Medium
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.
$88/mo
Autonomous — Growth
WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
$100/mo
Autonomous — Scale
2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.
$200/mo
Flexible — DO 8XL
24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.
$342/mo
Autonomous — Plus
3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom autoscale, volume pricing.
Custom
Try Cloudways (free trial) ↗

Cloudflare Developer Platform

Free
Workers: 100k req/day, 10ms CPU/req. D1: 5M reads/day. KV: 100k reads/day. R2: 10 GB/mo. Durable Objects: 100k req/day.
Free
Workers Paid
$5/month minimum. 10M Workers req/mo + overages. Generous D1, KV, R2 allowances. All services unlocked.
$5/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Higher SLAs, dedicated support, account managers.
Custom
Cloudflare Workers ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs free on Cloudflare Developer Platform.

MetricCloudwaysCloudflare Developer Platform
d1 reads day—5000000 rows/day
d1 storage gb—5 GB
d1 writes day—100000 rows/day
durable objects gb sec—13000 GB-sec/day
durable objects requests—100000 req/day
kv reads day—100000 reads/day
kv storage gb—1 GB
kv writes day—1000 writes/day
r2 class a ops—1000000 ops/month
r2 class b ops—10000000 ops/month
r2 egress—free (unlimited) egress
r2 storage gb—10 GB/month
workers cpu ms—10 ms/invocation
workers logs events—200000 events/day
workers requests day—100000 req/day

Features

Cloudways · 17 features

  • Autonomous (WordPress) — Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
  • Backups — Automated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
  • Bot Scaler — Autonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
  • Breeze (WP cache plugin) — In-house WordPress caching plugin.
  • CloudwaysCDN — Built-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
  • Flexible Plans — BYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL — 1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
  • Free Migration — 1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
  • Horizontal Scaling — Auto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
  • Malware Protection — Add-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
  • Object Cache Pro — Included on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
  • SafeUpdates — Automated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
  • Staging Environments — 1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
  • Team Collaboration — Invite team members with granular role permissions.
  • Thunderstack (Optimized) — Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
  • Vertical Scaling — Resize server specs without migration.

Cloudflare Developer Platform · 18 features

  • AI Gateway — Proxy for OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini with caching, analytics, retries, rate limitin…
  • D1 — Managed serverless SQLite via sqlite-wasm. Read replicas via replicas keyword.
  • Durable Objects — Strongly-consistent objects with storage, pinned to a region. Good for sync/stat…
  • Email Routing — Catchall email routing + Email Workers for programmatic handling.
  • Hyperdrive — Connection pooler + cache for Postgres. Makes your DB edge-fast.
  • Images — Store, resize, transform images. Polish on-the-fly.
  • KV — Eventually-consistent key-value at every POP. Good for config, caching.
  • Pages — Static + SSR framework hosting (Next.js via OpenNext, Remix, Nuxt, SvelteKit).
  • Pages Functions — Workers integrated into Pages for backend logic.
  • Queues — Persistent message queues with batched consumers. Exactly-once per consumer grou…
  • R2 — S3-compatible object storage with **zero egress fees**.
  • Stream — Video upload, encoding, adaptive streaming.
  • Vectorize — Vector DB at the edge. For RAG + semantic search.
  • Workers — V8-isolate serverless at 300+ POPs. Sub-ms cold starts. JS/TS/Rust/Python (beta)…
  • Workers AI — Run LLMs (Llama, Mistral) + image, speech, embedding models at edge via @cf/... …
  • Workers Logs — Structured logs with 3-day retention on paid.
  • Workflows — Durable step-functions for long-running tasks.
  • Zaraz — Third-party script management at edge (analytics, marketing tags).

Developer interfaces

KindCloudwaysCloudflare Developer Platform
CLI—Wrangler CLI
RESTCloudways APICloudflare REST API, D1 HTTP (via Worker), R2 S3-compatible API
MCP—Cloudflare MCP
OTHERCloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTPWorkers Runtime (V8)
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