BUT CAN'T CLOUDFLARE DO THAT?
Alfredo vs Cloudflare
“Can't I just deploy everything on Cloudflare?”
Cloudflare rents you the deploy half at the edge; Alfredo self-hosts both deploying and operating, with the opposite trade-offs.
YOU KEEP
Any project you leave on Cloudflare — nothing in Alfredo depends on it.
Alfredo and Cloudflare, across the seven things
The honest version, side by side. Green is automatic, amber is manual work you own, a grey ring is not possible.
| CAPABILITY | Alfredo | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on your servers | Any VPS you can SSH into. Alfredo runs on your servers; it does not host your projects. | No — it runs on Cloudflare's edge, not your servers. |
| Deploys your projects | Built in. Pick the integrations a project needs and deploy — there is no separate PaaS underneath. | Yes — Workers (now absorbing Pages) deploy frontends and serverless, with native support for Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt and Astro. |
| Wires each project at birth | The core claim. Auth, email, database, analytics and payments are configured at creation, secrets are moved for you, and integrations already running are reused. | No — D1/KV/R2 bindings are per-project config you wire, not provisioned integrations. |
| One dashboard across projects | One HQ across every project you deploy. | No — own-platform analytics only, per project. |
| Sees your business, not just CPU | Payments and email delivery sit next to traffic, errors and uptime — business signals, not just CPU. | No. |
| Works without assembly | Zero setup — the cross-project view is assembled for you, not built. | On the deploy side, yes. |
| Flat cost for many projects | Flat: you pay for your own box, not per host, per project or per module. | Generous free tier that covers most prototypes; $5/mo paid tier (2026 pricing — re-verify before shipping). |
ALFREDO ADDS
Your own servers, integration wiring at creation, business signals, and one view across all projects. Alfredo is a prototype and has none of Cloudflare's global reach or reliability.
CLOUDFLARE'S REAL WINS
A global edge network, a generous free tier, strong framework support, and reliability at scale.
STAY ON CLOUDFLARE IF
Stay put if you want a zero-server edge platform and never want to run a box. That is a reasonable want, and it is not Alfredo. Alfredo is an early, unproven prototype; Cloudflare is the mature, proven thing.