# Cloudflare Queues

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cloudflare-queues/  
**Website:** https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/queues/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 52.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 65.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 78.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Cloudflare Queues Consumer API** — Operations for managing queue consumers (Worker push or HTTP pull)
- **Cloudflare Queues Messages API** — Operations for sending, receiving, and acknowledging messages
- **Cloudflare Queues Metrics API** — Operations for retrieving queue metrics
- **Cloudflare Queues Queue API** — Operations for managing Cloudflare Queues and their configuration

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cloudflare Queues Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 14 acting

## Security (3)

- **Cloudflare Queues Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **Cloudflare Queues Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Cloudflare Queues Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Cloudflare Queues Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Messaging, Message Queue, Serverless, Workers, Cloudflare, Async, Dead Letter Queue, Event-Driven

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cloudflare-queues/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.