Maybe if/when they put up a pricing calculator that lets me calculate the costs for my scenario: A c

Maybe if/when they put up a pricing calculator that lets me calculate the costs for my scenario: A call approx. every 20 seconds that takes ~250ms to calculate on a machine with 128 or 256 MB RAM that idles between the calls.

On AWS I can translate this into the two metrics they have: Absolute call count and GB/s computing time.

For Containers this is much harder right now.

Also, I don't know if cloud run charges for idle time or not. Makes a difference, too.

StepsOP•9/24/25, 8:21 AM

In short: Containers should be priced similar to workers. Like a more powerful (and thus more expensive) worker.

JayTheDeveloper•9/24/25, 9:09 AM

Reposting sorry, because i didn't notice there is a dedicated containers channel.

Does the cloudflares containers support a "fire-forget" use case? I'm looking at an ffmpeg encoding scenario where I use containerStub.start({entryPoint: args}) where I don't await the start method.

I tried a few things but it seems my container gets kills (exit code 143) before it even completes.

pandalambda2•9/24/25, 9:16 AM

how long is the ffmpeg encoding taking? so you want to run longer than the request to the container? i.e. /submitjob and return something like { ok: true, queuedId: guid } and keep going?

JayTheDeveloper•9/24/25, 9:18 AM

Basically yeah, start the container with an assigned jobId. On my grunty desktop a 4k video can be encoding into HLS 720p, 1080p, 2160p in about 3 minutes. Video is about 8GB, I would assume it takes a bit longer on highest container type but unsure.

pandalambda2•9/24/25, 9:21 AM

you can probably just adjust sleepAfter to something high and be done, are you sure it's not the process inside the container that causing the shutdown.

but perhaps instead of awaiting .start have you tried passing the promise to waitUntil at the worker https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/context/#waituntil although I would of thought this wouldn't been coupled tbh

pandalambda2•9/24/25, 9:23 AM

also check the logs in dashboard under containers too incase its been terminated for some reason (OMM etc)

JayTheDeveloper•9/24/25, 9:36 AM

It says exit code 143, presumably cloudflare killed it

JayTheDeveloper•9/24/25, 9:48 AM

I'll try a higher timeout and see if that helps.

SSteps Maybe if/when they put up a pricing calculator that lets me calculate the costs ...

Ashish Rawat•9/24/25, 10:03 AM

Actually this is what I'm saying, cloudflare container is overall 2x costlier compared to aws or cloud run. Here idle time doesn't matter because I calculated based on per second billing.

pandalambda2•9/24/25, 12:24 PM

Possibly more than 2x, it looks like cloudflare charge for any container egress, so thats hitting D1/KV/queues rest endpoints at CF too, also whilst you can get 1TB free on AWS for your first container by smashing the traffic through cloudfront, in CF you have no control over placement yet, I'm getting provisioned in AU ffs most expensive place on planet, and 500gb allowance there. Of course this is a different at scale, but testing crazy, no clarity..

Ppandalambda2 So the new about capnweb dropped, and it's powering wrangler local<>remote servi...

Matthew 🦘🫕•9/24/25, 2:21 PM

I had these same questions, I was hoping to use Apache Ballista on Containers for Distributed Compute on the edge in the future but it communicates in between the Scheduler & Executor using gRPC so I would need to rewrite these services to use CapnWeb?

Mike Nomitch•9/24/25, 8:56 PM

Hey all, want to give a quick update on two topics: limits and pricing

Mike Nomitch•9/24/25, 8:58 PM

Limits

We initially set our public limits for concurrent containers pretty low and don’t (yet) have large instance types. This was because we wanted to make sure the system could handle load and the plan has always been that we’ll move these up with time.

Tomorrow, we’ll be bumping concurrent resource limits considerably. We’ll still bump it up further in the future, but it’ll be a big step up (over 10 X where we’re at today). If you need more than that, please reach out!

On instance types, we’ll also add a larger one, but it won’t be huge (8 GiB, 1 vCPU, 12 GB disk). More to come in the future, but we’ll need to be a bit more gradual here to make sure we can place well at scale.

Mike Nomitch•9/24/25, 9:00 PM

Pricing

Good news and bad news.

Bad news: Nothing happening this week.
Good news: There will be changes soon (think weeks, not quarters).

Changes happening on two fronts:
- Firstly, we don’t want people having to think about Durable Object pricing at all if you’re using them for a Container. Most of it will just "go away" - the exception being DO storage (if and only if you’re using it).
- Secondly, overall cost will come down. Aside from the DO pricing going away, we’ve got another change that’ll bring cost down.

I have to be a big vague here right now unfortunately (with pricing I don’t want to make any promises before we finalize things) - To set expectations, we still won't be the cheapest spot to run a container, but the net effect on price will be non-trivial.

Mike Nomitch•9/24/25, 9:01 PM

Appreciate the patience here! On both of these fronts, we’re still learning, changing things internally, and being cautious. - We didn’t want to get put into a situation where our system got overloaded with containers and we wanted to be cautious on pricing while we worked out some internal details and got a better handle of costs with real usage.

So, stay tuned! - Limits change imminently, and pricing changes not too far off!

Paul Dlug•9/24/25, 9:23 PM

My service is failing to respond with the error Container suddenly disconnected, try againContainer suddenly disconnected, try again being returned. When I look at the worker logs it shows a 500 error in the fetch but when I look at the container logs it shows it responded to the request with a 200 OK. Everything works perfectly running locally w/

wrangler dev

wrangler dev

but fails in production (though this same service did work yesterday).

MMike Nomitch **Limits** We initially set our public limits for concurrent containers pretty ...

1984 Ford Laser•9/24/25, 11:15 PM

Appreciate these clarifications, people have been getting a bit worried about Containers even though its still very early days for the product. Really curious to see where things go in future!

MMike Nomitch Appreciate the patience here! On both of these fronts, we’re still learning, cha...

fforres•9/25/25, 1:38 AM

we still won't be the cheapest spot to run a container

Is that the goal?

If so (and with those announcements) moving off of AWS is looking very tempting

pandalambda2•9/25/25, 2:14 AM

I think people just want certainty over costs, I wouldn't expect CF to be cheapest, that's the different market full of naff providers with no redundancy that fake CPU cores and throw everything out over he.net/cogent, clarity over egress pricing would be a good start..

JJon M.I'm currently running it on Render with a 2 CPU/4Gb instance but I need more pow...

Isaac McFadyen•9/25/25, 6:29 PM

Yes but you won't get more power on containers, they're capped to 8GB/1vCPU at the moment.

MMike Nomitch **Limits** We initially set our public limits for concurrent containers pretty ...

Isaac McFadyen•9/25/25, 6:29 PM

@Jon M. see this message for details

goofysystem•9/25/25, 7:44 PM

Wrangler container builds broken for anyone else? Local Docker builds work fine, but Wrangler's container feature just hangs on Rust compilation and never completes. Is this related to the Docker Hub outage yesterday?

Ggoofysystem Wrangler container builds broken for anyone else? Local Docker builds work fine,...

gruntlord6•9/25/25, 8:06 PM

is docker running on your machine? for me thats usually docker destop being locked up

goofysystem•9/25/25, 8:15 PM

Yup i have orbstack running. I am able to build with docker build but not working when I run wrangler dev. Everything went to

after Docker Hub auth went down yesterday. It was 401 at first but now that it’s fixed it just hangs on compilation step indefinitely. I also updated to latest orbstack version yesterday if that’s any relevant.

gruntlord6•9/25/25, 8:55 PM

does it work for local dev?

Ggruntlord6 does it work for local dev?

goofysystem•9/25/25, 10:06 PM

its not working for local dev. I run

wrangler dev

wrangler dev

and it just gets stuck on build and hangs, but if I run a

docker build

docker build

container gets built in a reasonable time.

gruntlord6•9/25/25, 10:11 PM

hmm thats all I've got, whenever that happens it was always docker desktop for me. Just to check, your on the latest version of wrangler?

goofysystem•9/25/25, 10:12 PM

@gruntlord6 yup. I just confirmed on a smaller project that my go continer builds correctly. Maybe I'm hitting some memory limit or constraints idk?

gruntlord6•9/25/25, 10:35 PM

sometimes wrangler just has transient issues that clear up, I've hit my fair share on "internal error occured" and frozen cli for wrangler deploy that wouldn't work no matter what I did, then they worked fine the next day

gruntlord6•9/25/25, 10:35 PM

I know its not me because I watch it happen in the CI/CID pipeline in the dashboard as well

pandalambda2•9/26/25, 4:47 AM

wrangler just shells out to docker build anyway right?

Ppandalambda2 wrangler just shells out to docker build anyway right?

goofysystem•9/26/25, 6:07 AM

Yeah its still using orbstack to build but it still behaves differently from running

docker build

docker build

. I pretty sure I'm hitting some kind of constraint or something is failing silently.

pandalambda2•9/26/25, 8:09 AM

you on the latest wrangler? I've had issues with containers deploy before when I was a few versions behind, but not at the image build stage

Ppandalambda2 you on the latest wrangler? I've had issues with containers deploy before when ...

goofysystem•9/26/25, 8:25 AM

omg updating orbstack was the issue. Just downloaded Docker Desktop and it just works lol

Ggoofysystem omg updating orbstack was the issue. Just downloaded Docker Desktop and it just ...

gruntlord6•9/26/25, 1:46 PM

yea figured that was it

gruntlord6•9/26/25, 1:47 PM

had similar issues with docker cli vs the full download of docker desktop

will smith•9/26/25, 3:02 PM

Anything I'm doing obviously wrong? Just trying to deploy this containers repo: https://github.com/ghostwriternr/claude-code-containers It's not mine, but getting this error in the build on cloudflare
https://dash.cloudflare.com/a3f6e70849e6eb5ca1ebaf6083bc84ba/workers/services/view/claude-code-containers/production/builds/e8a8b77c-ca11-4ddf-8439-a7c204bc4b69

{"url":"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/a3f6e70849e6eb5ca1ebaf6083bc84ba/cloudchamber/me","status":401,"statusText":"Unauthorized","body":{"error":"Unauthorized: Account is not authorized"},"request":{"method":"GET","url":"/me","errors":{"401":"Unauthorized","500":"There has been an internal error"}},"name":"ApiError"}

{"url":"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/a3f6e70849e6eb5ca1ebaf6083bc84ba/cloudchamber/me","status":401,"statusText":"Unauthorized","body":{"error":"Unauthorized: Account is not authorized"},"request":{"method":"GET","url":"/me","errors":{"401":"Unauthorized","500":"There has been an internal error"}},"name":"ApiError"}

ZZnuff Can I use an Container to run ffmpeg to output a video stream as MPEG-TS to simu...

1984 Ford Laser•9/27/25, 2:19 AM

Probably, there is an ffmpeg example thats written in rust, but its for generating gifs so you'd need to figure that part out
https://github.com/megaconfidence/wifski/tree/main

Shashwat•9/27/25, 12:41 PM

I am trying to use a django built container, with worker's containers, and I am getting an empty body on django end(POST request). Get is working fine (this means that container is running fine). Anything wrong that I might be doing?

CodingCoop | Co-Founder Nullshot•9/28/25, 4:41 AM

Wen standard-2 :NotLikeThis:

Kirk Ouimet•9/30/25, 12:26 AM

Getting the issue Container suddenly disconnected, try againContainer suddenly disconnected, try again - has been working fine for months no changes on our side

{"url":"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/a3f6e70849e6eb5ca1ebaf6083bc84ba/cloudchamber/me","status":401,"statusText":"Unauthorized","body":{"error":"Unauthorized: Account is not authorized"},"request":{"method":"GET","url":"/me","errors":{"401":"Unauthorized","500":"There has been an internal error"}},"name":"ApiError"}

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