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Loops vs Cloudflare Developer Platform

Email marketing for SaaS — loops, transactional, campaigns in one
vs. Workers, Pages, D1, R2, KV — edge-native serverless

Loops website ↗Cloudflare Workers ↗

Pricing tiers

Loops

Free
1,000 subscribed contacts. 4,000 sends/month. All features. Loops footer on emails.
Free
Paid — 1.5k
1,500 contacts. Unlimited sends. No footer.
$15/mo
Paid — 5k
5,000 contacts. Unlimited sends.
$49/mo
Paid — 10k
10,000 contacts.
$99/mo
Paid — 25k
25,000 contacts.
$199/mo
Paid — 50k
50,000 contacts.
$349/mo
Custom
>100k contacts — contact sales.
Custom
Loops website ↗

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 free on Loops vs free on Cloudflare Developer Platform.

MetricLoopsCloudflare 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

Loops · 12 features

  • API Keys — Scoped keys for testing vs production.
  • Audiences (Segments) — Filter contacts by properties + event behavior.
  • Campaign Analytics — Open/click/unsubscribe rates, heatmaps, A/B significance.
  • Campaigns — One-off broadcasts to audience segments. Schedule + A/B test subject.
  • Contacts — Contact records with custom properties (strings, numbers, booleans, dates).
  • Email Editor — Visual block-based + Markdown + HTML modes.
  • Events — Send events to trigger loops/journeys or filter audiences.
  • Loops (Automations) — Event-triggered automation flows with delays + conditions.
  • Mailing Lists — Opt-in lists with subscribe/unsubscribe preferences per list.
  • Template Library — Pre-built templates for SaaS use cases (onboarding, digest, launch).
  • Transactional API — Send transactional emails (receipts, password resets) via /transactional endpoin…
  • Webhooks — Subscribe to contact/event changes.

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

KindLoopsCloudflare Developer Platform
CLI—Wrangler CLI
SDK@loops/loops, loops-py—
RESTLoops REST APICloudflare REST API, D1 HTTP (via Worker), R2 S3-compatible API
MCP—Cloudflare MCP
OTHERWebhooksWorkers Runtime (V8)
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