Cloudflare Workers vs. Google App Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudflare Workers
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Cloudflare Workers is a function-as-a-service (FaaS) option that enables users to deploy serverless code instantly across the globe to give it performance and scale. Users don't need to configure auto-scaling, load balancers, or paying for unused capacity. Traffic is automatically routed and load balanced across thousands of servers.
$0.15
per month per millions of requests
Google App Engine
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Google App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.
$0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Pricing
Cloudflare WorkersGoogle App Engine
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starting Price
$0.05
Per Hour Per Instance
Max Price
$0.30
Per Hour Per Instance
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cloudflare WorkersGoogle App Engine
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Cloudflare WorkersGoogle App Engine
Features
Cloudflare WorkersGoogle App Engine
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Cloudflare Workers
7.5
1 Ratings
16% below category average
Google App Engine
-
Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Cloudflare Workers
5.7
2 Ratings
4% below category average
Google App Engine
-
Ratings
Dashboards5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Function as a Service (FaaS)
Comparison of Function as a Service (FaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Cloudflare Workers
7.2
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Google App Engine
-
Ratings
Programming Language Diversity8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Runtime API Authoring8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Function/Database Integration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
DevOps Stack Integration7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Cloudflare Workers
-
Ratings
Google App Engine
8.7
31 Ratings
11% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.027 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings9.025 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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Cloudflare WorkersGoogle App Engine
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
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Score 8.3 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cloudflare WorkersGoogle App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(7 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(12 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cloudflare WorkersGoogle App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudflare
There I want to mention three areas where Cloudflare Workers is well suited.1. Its bulk URL redirection is extremely beneficial.2. Its email service optimization helps a lot every business or organization that receives a huge number of emails.3. Its edge caching assists website owners in dynamic content caching.
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Google
App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
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Pros
Cloudflare
  • Efficient URL Redirection
  • Excellent Email Service Optimization
  • Real-time Data Processing
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Google
  • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
  • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
  • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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Cons
Cloudflare
  • Limited Built-in Analytics and Monitoring
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Google
  • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
  • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
  • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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Likelihood to Renew
Cloudflare
No answers on this topic
Google
App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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Usability
Cloudflare
I give it a rating of 8 out of 10 because the use of this tool has helped us a lot. It enhanced our website performance and scalability. Additionally, it saved a lot of time by using its two features, bulk URL redirection and email service optimization.
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Google
I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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Support Rating
Cloudflare
No answers on this topic
Google
Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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Alternatives Considered
Cloudflare
When evaluating, Cloudflare Workers stand out in several key areas. 1. Performance and Latency 2. Cost Efficiency 3. Ease of Use and Developer Options
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Google
We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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Return on Investment
Cloudflare
  • We have improved load times by using its edge caching feature.
  • It also enhances our user experience.
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Google
  • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
  • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
  • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
  • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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