Convex vs Cloudflare Developer Platform

Convex

Cloudflare Developer Platform

Convex · 18 features

• Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
• Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
• Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
• Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
• Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
• Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
• Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
• Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
• File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
• Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
• HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
• Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
• Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
• Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
• Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
• Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
• Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
• Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.

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).