# Cloudflare Workers Cache

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Cloudflare Workers Cache and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Lets Cloudflare Workers return cached responses without running the worker again, with cache tags for invalidation. Critics warn it may raise bills because of how requests are counted.

## Why people recommend it

- Fills a missing Workers feature (2 comments): "exactly what Workers lacked, I was quite annoyed that a worker would spin up when 99% of my requests then return a cache" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804748)) "finally, this was needed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804902))
- Cache tags and stale-while-revalidate support (2 comments): "the cache tags are a slick way to do invalidation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804957)) "Finally proper stale-while-revalidate support!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804359))

## What people warn about

- Request counting may raise bills (3 comments): "That's a very weird limitation from a product standpoint. You might end up spending more money by enabling caching." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806253)) "Yeah that sounds like a bug that just happens to generate them more money." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805815)) "It sounds like they moved the component that counts requests earlier in the pipeline" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807023))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Cloudflare](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare.md): 744 recommend
- [Bunny.net](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bunny-net.md): 121 recommend
- [Amazon CloudFront](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-cloudfront.md): 24 recommend
- [Cloudflare CDN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-cdn.md): 12 recommend
- [Fastly CDN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fastly.md): 10 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cloudflare Workers Cache", https://hackerapproved.com/p/workers-cache/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).