Cloudflare Queues

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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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-api
  name: Cloudflare Queues API
  description: REST API for creating and managing Cloudflare Queues, sending and receiving messages, configuring consumers
    (Worker push or HTTP pull), managing dead letter queues, purging queues, and retrieving queue metrics and event subscriptions.
    Authenticated with Cloudflare API tokens via Bearer authorization.
  humanURL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/queues/
  baseURL: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4
  tags:
  - Queues
  - Messaging
  - Consumers
  - Dead Letter Queue
  - Workers
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/api-schemas/main/openapi.yaml
common:
- 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