Message Queue Cost Comparison

Scenario A (1M msgs/mo): SQS Standard 3M req − 1M free → $0.80; Cloudflare Queues 3M ops − 1M → $0.80; Cloud Tasks 2M ops − 1M → $0.40. Scenario B (30M msgs/mo): SQS Standard $35.60 (FIFO $44.50); Cloudflare Queues $35.60; Cloud Tasks 60M − 1M → $23.60. Unit prices rhyme at $0.40/M, but what counts as a unit differs: SQS = every API request (64 KB chunks; empty long-poll receives count), CF Queues = 3 ops per message (64 KB), Cloud Tasks = create + each delivery attempt (32 KB chunks). Apples for async-queue $, not feature parity (FIFO ordering, exactly-once, HTTP push, Workers binding). Handler compute is billed separately — see serverless compute.

Estimates only. Official list prices as of 2026-11-03 (Asia/Shanghai); provider pages prevail. Sources: Amazon SQS · Cloudflare Queues · Cloud Tasks

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