openaienmodel: gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Workflows - Workflows pricing adds per-step billing. Step and storage billing to start no earlier than August 10, 2026.
Key Points
- Per-step billing added for Workflows
- Step and storage charges start no earlier than 2026-08-10
- Paid plan includes 500K steps/month, then $0.80 per 100K
Summary
Cloudflare Workflows introduces per-step billing (steps are each unit of work, including sleep/wait operations). Requests and CPU time billing remain unchanged. Step and storage charges will begin no earlier than August 10, 2026; Cloudflare will not bill for these dimensions before that date.
Key Points
- What changed: Workflows now charges per executed step in addition to existing request/CPU billing.
- Step definition: a step is each unit of work executed by a Workflow (includes sleeping and waiting for events). You can query stepCount via the GraphQL Analytics API.
- Pricing highlights:
- Workers Free: 3,000 steps included per day; 1 GB-month storage included; no charges beyond included amounts.
- Workers Paid: 500,000 steps included per month, then $0.80 per additional 100,000 steps; 1 GB-month storage included, then $0.20 per additional GB-month.
- Effective date: billing for steps and storage will take effect no earlier than 2026-08-10.
- Actionable notes for engineers:
- Monitor Workflows usage in the Cloudflare dashboard and via GraphQL analytics.
- To reduce costs, decrease steps per workflow (simplify logic, batch work) and optimize persisted state to reduce storage.
- Refer to the Workflows pricing page for full details before the change takes effect.