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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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