--- title: "Cloudflare Workers – Limits of the free tier" description: "I have been making several changes (mainly cosmetic to this site over the last day or so) On most changes I have been doing an export and then uploading th" date: 2022-01-04T21:11:23+00:00 modified: 2026-06-01T21:58:35+00:00 author: James Kilby categories: - Hosting - Wordpress - Cloudflare - Ansible - Automation - Docker - Homelab - Traefik - VCF - VMware - Devops - Github - Personal tags: - #Blogging - #Cloudflare - #Workers url: https://jameskilby.co.uk/2022/01/cloudflare-workers-limits-of-the-free-tier/ image: https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/iu.jpeg --- ![](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/iu.jpeg) [Hosting](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/hosting/) | [Wordpress](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/wordpress/) # Cloudflare Workers – Limits of the free tier By[James](https://jameskilby.co.uk) January 4, 2022 · Updated June 1, 2026 • 📖1 min read(280 words) 📅**Published:** January 04, 2022•**Updated:** June 01, 2026 I have been making several changes (mainly cosmetic to this site over the last day or so) On most changes I have been doing an export and then uploading the site to Cloudflare using Wrangler. After a while I received an email from Cloudflare saying: _Hi,_ You’re _50% of the way to reaching one of your daily Cloudflare Workers KV free tier limits. You can view complete usage information in the dashboard._ _If you do not take any action and exceed the daily limit, requests to the Workers KV API will return 429 errors, and operations within a worker will fail until the limit resets at 2022-01-05 at 00:00:00 UTC._ I decided to keep ploughing on with my changes to see what happens when I go over this. The next email I received was slightly more informative as it said which limit I had breached. _You have exceeded the daily Cloudflare Workers KV free tier limit of 1000 Workers KV put operations._ When I next tried to publish I got the following::: wrangler publish --env production ✨ Built successfully, built project size is 13 KiB. 🌀 Using namespace for Workers Site "__jameskilbycouk-production-workers_sites_assets" ✨ Success 🌀 Uploading site files Error: ⚠️ Code 10048: your account has reached the free usage limit for this operation for today 📋 Copy The same error was observed when running “Wrangler dev” I had the option of upgrading for the cost of $5 which includes a very generous 10 million read operations and 1 million each of write, delete and list operations however it’s just not worth it for this site. I will wait until tomorrow to publish. 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