Cloudflare Containers (free tier question)

Free allowance: Cloudflare's machine product is paid; the free Durable Object row is the substitute
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: no price stated
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: write-gatedContainers require the USD 5 a month Workers Paid plan
Evidence: documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	Cloudflare's machine product is paid; the free Durable Object row is the substitute unit none; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) Containers require the USD 5 a month Workers Paid plan source the Free column of the Containers rate table reads N/A
Binding	write-gated Containers require the Workers Paid plan, so the gate is at purchase and not at a quota
Identity	card Workers Paid is a subscription
Egress	priced per GB with an included allotment on Workers Paid
Retention	not applicable: no free plan
Interface	ssh a Workers binding
Tooling	Wrangler
Composes with	none without Workers Paid
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricing/	the Free column of the memory, CPU and disk row reads N/A; usage is included with Workers Paid

More fields 2

billing model	wall-clock
free tier kind	none

Unknown values 2