GitHub Actions vs Cloudflare Developer Platform
CI/CD native to GitHub — workflows + marketplace + hosted runners
vs. Workers, Pages, D1, R2, KV — edge-native serverless
Pricing tiers
GitHub Actions
Public Repos
$0. Free unlimited minutes on hosted runners (Linux). No private runners.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free (Personal)
$0. 2,000 minutes/mo private repos (Linux). 500MB Packages storage.
Free
Per-minute Overage
$0.008/min Linux ($0.08 macOS, $0.016 Windows) after included minutes.
$0/mo
Team
$4/user/mo. 3,000 minutes/mo. 2GB storage. Org management.
$4/mo
Enterprise
$21/user/mo. 50,000 minutes/mo. 50GB storage. SAML SSO, audit.
$21/mo
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on GitHub Actions vs free on Cloudflare Developer Platform.
| Metric | GitHub Actions | Cloudflare 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
GitHub Actions · 18 features
- Actions Cache — Persistent cache across runs.
- Actions Marketplace — 20K+ reusable actions.
- ARC (K8s Controller) — Autoscale self-hosted on K8s.
- Artifacts — Upload/download job outputs.
- Composite Actions — Actions made of other actions.
- Concurrency Groups — Cancel / queue overlapping runs.
- Container Jobs — Run a whole job in a Docker image.
- Environments + Approvals — Gate deploys with manual approval.
- Job Summaries — Markdown summaries in UI.
- Larger Runners — 4-64 vCPU, ARM, GPU.
- Matrix Strategy — Fan out over axes.
- OIDC Cloud Auth — Exchange JWT for cloud credentials.
- Reusable Workflows — workflow_call.
- Secrets + Variables — Encrypted org/repo/env secrets.
- Self-Hosted Runners — Your own runners.
- Service Containers — Sidecar containers (DBs, Redis) per job.
- Triggers — push, pull_request, schedule, workflow_dispatch, etc.
- Workflows — Event-driven YAML workflows.
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
| Kind | GitHub Actions | Cloudflare Developer Platform |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | gh run CLI | Wrangler CLI |
| SDK | @actions/* toolkit | — |
| REST | GitHub Actions REST API | Cloudflare REST API, D1 HTTP (via Worker), R2 S3-compatible API |
| GRAPHQL | GitHub GraphQL (Actions) | — |
| MCP | — | Cloudflare MCP |
| OTHER | Actions Marketplace, Actions Tab (Web), workflow_* webhooks, Workflow YAML | Workers Runtime (V8) |
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