Choosing between [DeployHQ Static Hosting](https://www.deployhq.com/hosting/static) and Cloudflare Pages is unusual in this category — both products serve your static site from the _same_ Cloudflare edge network. The HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images travel through the same 305+ POPs, get cached the same way, and exit at the same latencies. So the comparison isn't about CDN performance. It's about everything that happens _before_ the file lands on the edge — the build pipeline, what else you can deploy from the same project, and how tightly you want to be coupled to the Cloudflare ecosystem.

This guide compares the two head to head: where the products diverge despite the shared edge, current pricing, and when to pick which.

## TL;DR

If you're already deep in the Cloudflare stack — Workers for compute, R2 for object storage, KV for caching, D1 for SQL, Cloudflare DNS — Cloudflare Pages is the obvious answer. The native integration is excellent and the free tier is unusually generous (unlimited bandwidth, unlimited static requests).

If you also deploy backend code somewhere other than Cloudflare (a Laravel API on a VPS, a Rails app on a managed server, a WordPress install on shared hosting), [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting puts the static site on the same Cloudflare edge that Pages uses while the same [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) project ships your backend code to wherever it actually runs. One pipeline, one billing relationship, no Cloudflare lock-in for the parts of your stack that don't belong there.

For broader context across the category, our [roundup of the best software deployment tools in 2026](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/best-software-deployment-tools) covers Cloudflare Pages, [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com), Vercel, and Netlify alongside the wider toolset. For the direct head-to-heads against the other edge hosts, see [DeployHQ Static Hosting vs Vercel](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/deployhq-static-hosting-vs-vercel) and [DeployHQ Static Hosting vs Netlify](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/deployhq-static-hosting-vs-netlify).

## At a glance: feature comparison

| Capability | DeployHQ Static Hosting | Cloudflare Pages |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edge network | Cloudflare's global edge | Cloudflare's global edge (same network) |
| Framework auto-detection | Yes (rule + AI fallback) | Yes |
| Atomic deploys | Yes | Yes |
| Custom domains + SSL | Yes (automatic) | Yes (automatic) |
| Free tier bandwidth | Trial site included | Unlimited bandwidth (all tiers) |
| Build minutes | Bundled with DeployHQ plan | 500/month Free, 5,000/month Pro |
| Concurrent builds | 1 (parallelism via separate projects) | 1 Free, 5 Pro, 20 Business |
| SPA mode (client-side routing) | Yes (toggle) | Yes (`_redirects` or `_routes.json`) |
| Server-side rendering | No (static only) | Limited via Workers (Pages Functions) |
| Edge functions | No | Yes (Pages Functions, Workers-based) |
| Native integrations | DeployHQ deployment pipeline | Workers, R2, KV, D1, Queues, AI |
| Backend deploys in same pipeline | Yes (VPS, shared host, cloud, S3) | Workers / Pages-only |
| Pricing model | Fixed monthly per site | Free / $20/mo Pro / $200/mo Business |
| Lock-in level | Low (artifact moves anywhere) | Medium (Pages Functions ↔ Workers tied) |

Same edge. Different everything else.

## When DeployHQ Static Hosting is the right choice

**You already deploy a backend with [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) — or are planning to.** This is the strongest case. If you're shipping a static site plus a Laravel/Rails/Node backend, having both in one [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) project means one set of deploy keys, one rollback surface, one billing relationship. The same workflow that ships your Hugo marketing site can ship your Express API to a [DeployHQ Managed VPS](https://www.deployhq.com/hosting/managed-vps) — or to your own Hetzner box, or to shared hosting, depending on what fits. Cloudflare Pages can only deploy to Cloudflare; everything outside the Cloudflare ecosystem still needs a separate deployment workflow.

**You want the same [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) pipeline running your build.** DeployHQ's build pipeline is intentionally generic — install dependencies, run tests, compile assets, set environment variables, run pre-deploy hooks. The build step doesn't care whether the destination is Static Hosting, a VPS, or an S3 bucket. If you've already tuned that pipeline for your project, deploying to Static Hosting requires no changes to it. See [the SvelteKit deployment guide](https://www.deployhq.com/guides/sveltekit) for a representative pipeline example.

**You want predictable per-site pricing.** Cloudflare Pages' free tier is the most generous in the category — unlimited bandwidth, unlimited static requests. That's hard to beat for a hobby project. But the Pro tier ($20/mo annual, $25/mo monthly) caps build minutes at 5,000/mo and concurrent builds at 5; Business jumps to $200/mo. [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting charges a fixed monthly rate per site on top of your [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) plan — useful when you're running multiple client sites and want a flat per-site cost regardless of build complexity. [Compare current](https://www.deployhq.com/pricing)[DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) plans for the full breakdown. For broader trade-offs across hosting models, our [shared hosting vs VPS guide for junior developers](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/shared-hosting-vs-vps-a-comprehensive-guide-for-junior-developers) covers the wider category.

**You want low lock-in.** Pages Functions are written in the Workers runtime — if you migrate away, you rewrite them. [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting serves a generic build artifact; if you ever want to leave, your build still produces the same files and works anywhere else that serves static content.

## When Cloudflare Pages is the right choice

**You're all-in on the Cloudflare stack.** Workers for compute, R2 for object storage, KV for caching, D1 for SQL, Queues for messaging — Cloudflare Pages is the natural front door to that ecosystem. Direct bindings to Workers, R2, and KV from Pages Functions remove a lot of glue code. If your architecture is everything on Cloudflare, Pages is the lowest-friction static-hosting choice you can make.

**You need the free tier specifically.** Pages' free tier with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited static requests is unique in this category. For high-traffic hobby projects, marketing pages with viral spikes, or open-source documentation sites, that pricing structure can't be matched. [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting doesn't have a directly comparable free forever tier — the trial includes a site and paid plans start from there.

**You want Pages Functions for per-request logic.** Geo-routing, A/B testing at the edge, authentication, header manipulation, simple APIs — Pages Functions running on Workers handles those cleanly. [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting doesn't run code at request time; you'd put Cloudflare Workers in front of it to get the same behavior (which works, but isn't bundled).

**You're not deploying anything outside Cloudflare.** If your entire architecture lives in Cloudflare's ecosystem and you don't have backend services on VPS, shared hosting, or cloud platforms that [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) would otherwise handle, the workflow-consolidation argument for [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) doesn't apply. Stay on Pages.

## Pricing: side by side

As of June 2026 — check vendor pages for current numbers.

**Cloudflare Pages Free** is $0 with 1 concurrent build, 500 builds/month, 100 custom domains per project, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited static requests. Genuinely the most generous free tier in the category.

**Cloudflare Pages Pro** is $20/month annual or $25/month monthly with 5 concurrent builds, 5,000 builds/month, 250 custom domains per project, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited static requests.

**Cloudflare Pages Business** is $200/month annual or $250/month monthly with 20 concurrent builds, 20,000 builds/month, 500 custom domains per project.

**DeployHQ Static Hosting** charges a fixed monthly rate per site, shown on the Hosted Resources page in your account's currency. Pricing rolls into your [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) plan on a single monthly invoice. Trial accounts can provision one Static Hosting site at no charge.

The honest framing: for a single static site with no backend, Cloudflare Pages Free is structurally cheaper than any [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) tier because Free is $0. The [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) math gets favorable when you're already paying for [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) to deploy backend code somewhere — at that point the static site is bundled into a plan you're already running, and the marginal cost of adding Static Hosting is the per-site rate, not a new vendor relationship.

## Moving between them (it's not all-or-nothing)

Both platforms serve the same static artifact, so migration in either direction is mostly DNS plus repo reconfiguration.

**From Cloudflare Pages to [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting**: connect the repository in [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com), point Static Hosting at the same build output directory Pages used, keep the build command identical, switch DNS once verified. If you depend on Pages Functions, plan replacements first — Cloudflare Workers in front of Static Hosting can serve the same role, but you maintain them separately rather than co-located with the static project.

**From [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting to Cloudflare Pages**: even simpler — connect the repo to Pages, set the same build command and output directory, switch DNS. Nothing DeployHQ-specific in your code to unwind.

**Or: use both.** Run your static frontend on Cloudflare Pages, keep [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) as your deployment pipeline for the backend you ship to a VPS or shared host. This combination is common — Pages handles the frontend exceptionally well, [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) handles everything else. The trade-off is two deployment surfaces instead of one; whether that's worth it depends on how much your team values consolidation.

For broader background on legacy hosting and modern alternatives, [is FTP dead?](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/is-ftp-dead-a-look-at-its-continued-use-in-deployment) covers the wider shift in deployment patterns.

## The shared-edge dimension

Both products use Cloudflare's edge. In practice this means:

- **Latency** : identical from a given user's location. There's no advantage to either product on raw edge performance for static content.
- **DDoS protection** : included on both via Cloudflare's standard protection.
- **HTTPS certificates** : provisioned automatically by Cloudflare in both cases.
- **Cache invalidation** : works at deploy time (atomic deploys flip the served version) in both products.

What's _different_ despite the shared edge:

- **Cloudflare account requirement** : Pages is part of your Cloudflare account; you log in there, your billing lives there, your custom domains route through Cloudflare DNS. Static Hosting doesn't require a Cloudflare account — it manages the Cloudflare infrastructure on your behalf.
- **Workers bindings** : Pages Functions can bind directly to Workers, R2, KV, D1, Queues. Static Hosting doesn't expose these bindings — if you need them, you front the Static Hosting site with your own Worker that has the bindings.
- **Pre-edge build pipeline** : DeployHQ's build runs on DeployHQ's servers with its own pipeline UI, env-var management, and rollback history. Cloudflare Pages runs builds on Cloudflare's infrastructure with its own UI. They produce the same artifact but the pre-edge experience differs.

[DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) also exposes [one-click rollback](https://www.deployhq.com/features/one-click-rollback) — useful when you ship something broken and need to revert without rebuilding. Pages supports a similar flow through its deployment history UI, but the [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) rollback is the same one-click motion you'd use for a Managed VPS deploy or a BYO-server deploy. One mental model across all targets.

## FAQ

**Are there any latency differences between [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting and Cloudflare Pages?**No. Both serve from Cloudflare's global edge network. Latency to a given user depends on their geography and the nearest Cloudflare POP — which is identical for both products.

**Does [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting use my own Cloudflare account?**No. [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) manages the Cloudflare infrastructure on your behalf. You don't need a Cloudflare account to use Static Hosting; subdomains under `deployhq-sites.com` work out of the box, and custom domains use a CNAME from your DNS provider.

**Can I use Cloudflare Workers in front of [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting?**Yes. If you need edge-function behavior (geo-routing, edge auth, request rewriting), set up a Cloudflare Worker on your custom domain that proxies to your Static Hosting subdomain. The Worker runs at the edge with full Worker capabilities.

**What about Hugo, Astro, Eleventy, and other static-site generators?** Both products support all major static-site generators since they serve the build artifact, not the source. See [the Hugo deployment guide](https://www.deployhq.com/guides/hugo) for a representative [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) pipeline example.

**What if I outgrow Static Hosting and need a runtime?** Move the project to [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Managed VPS Hosting (for full Linux + Node/Python/Ruby), or front Static Hosting with Cloudflare Workers for lightweight edge logic. Same [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) pipeline ships to either target.

## Get started

If you're already on [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com), enable beta features under **Settings \> Beta Features** and add a new Static Hosting server to any project. The [Static Hosting on](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/static-hosting-on-deployhq)[DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) pillar guide walks through the end-to-end provisioning flow.

If you're new, [start a free trial](https://www.deployhq.com/signup) and the included Static Hosting site lets you compare it head-to-head against Cloudflare Pages for the same project. For the wider picture of where Static Hosting fits among the five hosting types [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) supports, see [your universal deployment and hosting platform](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/deployhq-your-universal-deployment-platform-for-all-hosting-types).

Both [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting and Cloudflare Pages serve from the same edge, and both do the static-hosting job well. The right answer depends almost entirely on what's around your static site. If your stack is all-Cloudflare, Pages wins on integration and free-tier economics. If you also ship backend code outside Cloudflare — and especially if you want one deployment pipeline for the whole stack — [DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com) Static Hosting wins on workflow consolidation.

For more detail on the product, the [Static Hosting support library](https://www.deployhq.com/support/servers/static-hosting) has the full provisioning, framework-detection, and lifecycle documentation.

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