Monthly cost
$0+ / mo
Free 10GB; no egress fees
Popularity
4/5
LLM knowledge
4/5
Difficulty
Medium
#low-cost#edge
What Cloudflare R2 is good at
Strengths
- +Zero egress fees
- +S3-compatible API
- +Cheap
Tradeoffs
- −Smaller ecosystem of tooling
- −Young
Coding-agent prompt
Drop into Claude / Cursor to get idiomatic Cloudflare R2 code.
You're working with Cloudflare R2. S3-compatible storage with zero egress fees. Best practices: - Lean on: zero egress fees - Lean on: s3-compatible api - Lean on: cheap Things to watch for: - Watch out for: smaller ecosystem of tooling - Watch out for: young General guidance: - Canonical docs: https://cloudflare.com/products/r2 — check here before inventing APIs. - Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them. - Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function. - Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done. - Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.
Beginner's guide to Cloudflare R2
In one line: S3-compatible storage with no egress (download) fees.
R2 is like S3 but without the expensive bandwidth charges. Same API — most S3 tools work with R2.
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