Cloudflare Queues

Cloudflare Queues is a flexible, scalable message queue service built into the Cloudflare Workers ecosystem. It provides guaranteed message delivery with a REST API for creating and managing queues, sending individual or batched messages, configuring push-based Worker consumers and HTTP pull consumers, managing dead letter queues, and monitoring queue metrics. Queues supports delivery delays, message retention up to 14 days, throughput up to 5,000 messages per second per queue, and event subscriptions for reactive workflows.

Cloudflare Queues publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Consumer API, Messages API, Metrics API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Messaging, Message Queue, Serverless, Workers, and Cloudflare.

The Cloudflare Queues catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Cloudflare Queues’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, API reference, engineering blog, pricing, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

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53.0/100 developing ▼ -7.7 Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

MessagingMessage QueueServerlessWorkersCloudflareAsyncDead Letter QueueEvent Driven

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 53.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cloudflare Queues Rate Limits

20 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

GitHubRepo

GitHubRepo

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cloudflare-queues
name: Cloudflare Queues
description: Cloudflare Queues is a flexible, scalable message queue service built into the Cloudflare Workers ecosystem.
  It provides guaranteed message delivery with a REST API for creating and managing queues, sending individual or batched
  messages, configuring push-based Worker consumers and HTTP pull consumers, managing dead letter queues, and monitoring queue
  metrics. Queues supports delivery delays, message retention up to 14 days, throughput up to 5,000 messages per second per
  queue, and event subscriptions for reactive workflows.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cloudflare-queues.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudflare-queues/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Messaging
- Message Queue
- Serverless
- Workers
- Cloudflare
- Async
- Dead Letter Queue
- Event Driven
apis:
- aid: cloudflare-queues:cloudflare-queues-consumer-api
  name: Cloudflare Queues Consumer API
  description: Operations for managing queue consumers (Worker push or HTTP pull)
  humanURL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/queues/
  baseURL: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4
  tags:
  - Consumer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudflare-queues-consumer-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/
- aid: cloudflare-queues:cloudflare-queues-messages-api
  name: Cloudflare Queues Messages API
  description: Operations for sending, receiving, and acknowledging messages
  humanURL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/queues/
  baseURL: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4
  tags:
  - Messages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudflare-queues-messages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/
- aid: cloudflare-queues:cloudflare-queues-metrics-api
  name: Cloudflare Queues Metrics API
  description: Operations for retrieving queue metrics
  humanURL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/queues/
  baseURL: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudflare-queues-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/
- aid: cloudflare-queues:cloudflare-queues-queue-api
  name: Cloudflare Queues Queue API
  description: Operations for managing Cloudflare Queues and their configuration
  humanURL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/queues/
  baseURL: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4
  tags:
  - Queue
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudflare-queues-queue-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/cloudflare-queues/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cloudflare-queues-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cloudflare-queues-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cloudflare-queues-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cloudflare-queues-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/queues/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/get-started/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/queues/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/cloudflare
- type: GitHubRepo
  url: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/api-schemas/main/openapi.yaml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudflare
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/cloudflare-queues/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/platform/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/Cloudflare
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/product/queues/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cloudflare-queues-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cloudflare-queues-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cloudflare-queues-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com