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 rather than 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 rather than 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. Those are business signals rather than CPU readings. | No. |
| Works without assembly | Zero setup. The cross-project view is assembled for you rather than built by you. | 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.