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GlobalStacks vs Cloudflare Containers

Cloudflare Containers are compelling for Workers-connected workloads. GlobalStacks is for teams that want sandbox infrastructure across private hosts and controlled networks.

Cloudflare Containers

When Cloudflare fits

Best fit: Cloudflare-native products that need programmable containers linked to Workers.
Pricing: $0.000020 per vCPU-second, equal to $0.072 per active vCPU-hour, $0.0000025 per GiB-second for provisioned memory, and $0.00000007 per GB-second for provisioned disk. Requires the Workers Paid plan.
GPU: No public GPU container meter.
Important tradeoff: For bursty Cloudflare-native workloads, Cloudflare's active CPU billing can be cost-effective.

GlobalStacks

When to choose GlobalStacks

Use GlobalStacks when sandboxes need to run on private infrastructure, Proxmox, host-agent clusters, distributed volumes, or runtime networks outside a single edge platform.

Self-hosted pricing

$1 per self-hosted cluster per month, plus the infrastructure you already operate.

Managed pricing

Managed clusters use transparent usage meters: $0.0504 per vCPU-hour, $0.0162 per GiB memory-hour, $0.000108 per GiB storage-hour, H100 at $3.95 per GPU-hour, and RTX PRO 6000 at $3.03 per GPU-hour where available.

Decision guide

Pick the model that matches your workload.

Choose GlobalStacks when sandbox infrastructure needs to run across your own hosts, private networks, storage systems, and regional capacity choices. Self-hosted clusters keep the platform fee low while your team controls the underlying machines.

Use managed GlobalStacks clusters when you want the same control-plane model without operating the capacity yourself.

Pricing reviewed June 14, 2026. Source: Cloudflare Containers pricing.

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