Cloudflare changelogs | Durable Objects

Durable Objects, Workers - New `us` jurisdiction for Durable Objects

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Durable Objects now supports a us jurisdiction, letting you create Durable Objects that only run and store data within the United States. Use the us jurisdiction when you need to keep a Durable Object's compute and storage inside the United States to meet data residency requirements.

Create a namespace restricted to the us jurisdiction the same way as any other jurisdiction:

// Worker
export default {
  async fetch(request, env) {
    const usSubnamespace = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.jurisdiction("us");
    const stub = usSubnamespace.getByName("general");
    return stub.fetch(request);
  },
};

Workers may still access Durable Objects constrained to the us jurisdiction from anywhere in the world. The jurisdiction constraint only controls where the Durable Object itself runs and persists data.

For the full list of supported jurisdictions, refer to Data location — Restrict Durable Objects to a jurisdiction.

Durable Objects, Workers - Test Durable Object eviction with new cloudflare:test helpers

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers package now includes evictDurableObject and evictAllDurableObjects test helpers, exported from cloudflare:test.

These helpers let you test how a Durable Object behaves across evictions, simulating the production lifecycle where an idle Durable Object can be evicted from memory.

For more context, refer to Lifecycle of a Durable Object.

import { evictDurableObject, evictAllDurableObjects } from "cloudflare:test";
import { env } from "cloudflare:workers";

const id = env.COUNTER.idFromName("my-counter");
const stub = env.COUNTER.get(id);

// Evict the Durable Object instance pointed to by a specific stub
await evictDurableObject(stub);

// Close WebSockets instead of hibernating them
await evictDurableObject(stub, { webSockets: "close" });

// Evict all currently-running Durable Objects in evictable namespaces
await evictAllDurableObjects();

These helpers are available in @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers@0.16.20 and later.

Learn more in the Test APIs reference and the Testing Durable Objects guide.

Durable Objects, Workers - New Asia-Pacific location hints: apac-ne and apac-se

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Durable Objects now supports two new location hints for Asia-Pacific: apac-ne (Northeast Asia-Pacific) and apac-se (Southeast Asia-Pacific). Use apac-ne or apac-se when you want finer-grained placement within Asia-Pacific rather than the broader apac hint.

Use the new hints the same way as any other locationHint:

// Northeast Asia-Pacific (Japan, Korea, etc.)
const stubNE = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.get(id, { locationHint: "apac-ne" });

// Southeast Asia-Pacific (Singapore, Indonesia, etc.)
const stubSE = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.get(id, { locationHint: "apac-se" });

If your users are spread across all of Asia-Pacific, the existing apac hint remains the right choice. Only reach for apac-ne or apac-se when your traffic is clearly concentrated in one sub-region and you want to minimize round-trip time to that audience. The default behavior and what we generally recommended is not adding a location hint unless absolutely needed, this will create the Durable Object as close to the initializing request as possible to reduce latency.

As with all location hints, these are best-effort suggestions. Cloudflare will place the Durable Object in a nearby data center, not necessarily the exact hinted location.

For the full list of supported hints, refer to Data location — Provide a location hint.

Durable Objects - Outbound connections keep Durable Objects alive

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Durable Objects now remain alive for the duration of active outbound connections created via connect() or an outbound WebSocket. Previously, a Durable Object would be evicted after 70-140 seconds of no incoming traffic, even if the object had an open outbound connection, which is a common pattern when streaming responses from a large language model (LLM) over TCP or an outbound WebSocket.

With this change, each active outbound connection prevents eviction. Once all outbound connections close, the standard 70-140 second inactivity window applies before the Durable Object is evicted.

Before: streaming connections were cut off by eviction

After: active outbound connections keep the Durable Object alive

If you are building agents on Cloudflare, this is especially relevant. An agent that streams tokens from an LLM while calling models, or that performs long-running tasks over an outbound connection, now stays alive for the duration of that connection instead of being evicted mid-stream.

Limits:

Each outbound connection keeps the Durable Object alive for a maximum of 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, the connection stops preventing eviction (the connection itself continues operating), and the standard eviction rules resume.
The Durable Object's existing per-account instance limits still apply.

For more information, refer to Lifecycle of a Durable Object.

Durable Objects, Workers - Filter Durable Objects metrics by object ID or name

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

You can now filter the Metrics tab for a Durable Objects namespace by an individual Durable Object's ID or name in the Cloudflare dashboard. Previously, metrics charts only showed aggregate, namespace-level data, making it difficult to isolate the behavior of a specific object.

Go to Durable Objects

Start typing an ID or name into the filter and select a match from the autocomplete dropdown. The autocomplete only shows objects with invocations during the selected time range, so an object that does not appear has not been invoked in that window. This does not necessarily mean the object has been deleted. Every chart on the page updates to reflect only the selected object. This makes it easier to identify and investigate a single Durable Object when debugging a high-traffic object, an error spike, or unexpected storage usage. Clear the filter to return to namespace-level metrics.

Metrics are powered by the GraphQL Analytics API, so standard analytics behavior such as ingestion delay and sampling applies.

For more information, refer to Metrics and analytics.

Cloudflare Fundamentals, Workers, D1, R2, KV, Queues, Vectorize, Durable Objects, Containers - Billable usage and budget alerts now in product sidebars

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Pay-as-you-go customers can now view billable usage and create budget alerts directly from the product overview pages for Workers & Pages, D1, R2, Workers KV, Queues, Vectorize, Durable Objects, and Containers. A new sidebar widget shows current-period spend and the billing cycle date range, alongside a button to create a budget alert.

The widget pulls from the same data as the Billable Usage dashboard and aligns to your billing cycle (or the current day on Free plans), so the numbers match your invoice. Enterprise contract accounts are not yet supported.

Selecting Create budget alert opens the budget alert flow inline so you can set a dollar threshold in the same place you are reviewing usage. Budget alerts apply to your total account-level spend across all products, not just the product page you create them from.

For more information, refer to the Usage-based billing documentation.

Durable Objects, Workers - Access Durable Object jurisdiction via `ctx.id.jurisdiction`

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

ctx.id.jurisdiction inside a Durable Object now reports the jurisdiction the object was created in — for example "eu" when accessed through env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.jurisdiction("eu") — so you can make region-aware decisions without passing the jurisdiction through method arguments or persisting it in storage. For the full list of ID-construction paths that preserve jurisdiction, refer to the Durable Object ID documentation.

export class RegionalRoom extends DurableObject {
  async fetch(request) {
    // "eu" when accessed through env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.jurisdiction("eu")
    const region = this.ctx.id.jurisdiction;
    return new Response(`Hello from ${region ?? "the default region"}!`);
  }
}

// Worker
export default {
  async fetch(request, env) {
    const stub = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.jurisdiction("eu").getByName("general");
    return stub.fetch(request);
  },
};

ctx.id.jurisdiction is undefined for Durable Objects that were not created in a jurisdiction-restricted namespace. Alarms scheduled before 2026-03-15 also do not have jurisdiction stored; to backfill the value, reschedule the alarm from a fetch() or RPC handler.

Durable Objects, Workers - Access Durable Object name via `ctx.id.name`

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

When your Worker accesses a Durable Object via idFromName() or getByName(), the same name is now available on ctx.id.name inside the object — no need to pass it through method arguments or persist it in storage. This brings the runtime behavior in line with the Workers runtime types.

This is especially useful for alarms, where there is no calling client to pass the name as an argument. When an alarm handler runs, ctx.id.name will hold the same name the object was originally accessed with.

import { DurableObject } from "cloudflare:workers";

export class ChatRoom extends DurableObject {
  async getRoomName() {
    // ctx.id.name returns the name passed to getByName() or idFromName()
    return this.ctx.id.name;
  }
}

// Worker
export default {
  async fetch(request, env) {
    const stub = env.CHAT_ROOM.getByName("general");
    const roomName = await stub.getRoomName();
    return new Response(`Welcome to ${roomName}!`);
  },
};

ctx.id.name is undefined in the following cases:

For Durable Objects created with newUniqueId().
When accessed via idFromString(), even if the ID was originally created from a name.
For names longer than 1,024 bytes.

This works the same way in local development with wrangler dev as it does in production. Run npm update wrangler to ensure you are on a version with this support.

For more information, refer to the Durable Object ID documentation.

Durable Objects, Workers - deleteAll() now deletes Durable Object alarm

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

deleteAll() now deletes a Durable Object alarm in addition to stored data for Workers with a compatibility date of 2026-02-24 or later. This change simplifies clearing a Durable Object's storage with a single API call.

Previously, deleteAll() only deleted user-stored data for an object. Alarm usage stores metadata in an object's storage, which required a separate deleteAlarm() call to fully clean up all storage for an object. The deleteAll() change applies to both KV-backed and SQLite-backed Durable Objects.

// Before: two API calls required to clear all storage
await this.ctx.storage.deleteAlarm();
await this.ctx.storage.deleteAll();

// Now: a single call clears both data and the alarm
await this.ctx.storage.deleteAll();

For more information, refer to the Storage API documentation.

Durable Objects, Workers - New Best Practices guide for Durable Objects

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A new Rules of Durable Objects guide is now available, providing opinionated best practices for building effective Durable Objects applications. This guide covers design patterns, storage strategies, concurrency, and common anti-patterns to avoid.

Key guidance includes:

Design around your "atom" of coordination — Create one Durable Object per logical unit (chat room, game session, user) instead of a global singleton that becomes a bottleneck.
Use SQLite storage with RPC methods — SQLite-backed Durable Objects with typed RPC methods provide the best developer experience and performance.
Understand input and output gates — Learn how Cloudflare's runtime prevents data races by default, how write coalescing works, and when to use blockConcurrencyWhile().
Leverage Hibernatable WebSockets — Reduce costs for real-time applications by allowing Durable Objects to sleep while maintaining WebSocket connections.

The testing documentation has also been updated with modern patterns using @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers, including examples for testing SQLite storage, alarms, and direct instance access:

JavaScript

import { env, runDurableObjectAlarm } from "cloudflare:test";
import { it, expect } from "vitest";

it("can test Durable Objects with isolated storage", async () => {
  const stub = env.COUNTER.getByName("test");

  // Call RPC methods directly on the stub
  await stub.increment();
  expect(await stub.getCount()).toBe(1);

  // Trigger alarms immediately without waiting
  await runDurableObjectAlarm(stub);
});

TypeScript

import { env, runDurableObjectAlarm } from "cloudflare:test";
import { it, expect } from "vitest";

it("can test Durable Objects with isolated storage", async () => {
  const stub = env.COUNTER.getByName("test");

  // Call RPC methods directly on the stub
  await stub.increment();
  expect(await stub.getCount()).toBe(1);

  // Trigger alarms immediately without waiting
  await runDurableObjectAlarm(stub);
});

Durable Objects, Workers - Billing for SQLite Storage

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Storage billing for SQLite-backed Durable Objects will be enabled in January 2026, with a target date of January 7, 2026 (no earlier).

To view your SQLite storage usage, go to the Durable Objects page

Go to Durable Objects

If you do not want to incur costs, please take action such as optimizing queries or deleting unnecessary stored data in order to reduce your SQLite storage usage ahead of the January 7th target. Only usage on and after the billing target date will incur charges.

Developers on the Workers Paid plan with Durable Object's SQLite storage usage beyond included limits will incur charges according to SQLite storage pricing announced in September 2024 with the public beta. Developers on the Workers Free plan will not be charged.

Compute billing for SQLite-backed Durable Objects has been enabled since the initial public beta. SQLite-backed Durable Objects currently incur charges for requests and duration, and no changes are being made to compute billing.

For more information about SQLite storage pricing and limits, refer to the Durable Objects pricing documentation.

Workers, Durable Objects, Browser Run - Workers WebSocket message size limit increased from 1 MiB to 32 MiB

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Workers, including those using Durable Objects and Browser Rendering, may now process WebSocket messages up to 32 MiB in size. Previously, this limit was 1 MiB.

This change allows Workers to handle use cases requiring large message sizes, such as processing Chrome Devtools Protocol messages.

For more information, please see the Durable Objects startup limits.

Durable Objects, Workers - View and edit Durable Object data in UI with Data Studio (Beta)

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

You can now view and write to each Durable Object's storage using a UI editor on the Cloudflare dashboard. Only Durable Objects using SQLite storage can use Data Studio.

Go to Durable Objects

Data Studio unlocks easier data access with Durable Objects for prototyping application data models to debugging production storage usage. Before, querying your Durable Objects data required deploying a Worker.

To access a Durable Object, you can provide an object's unique name or ID generated by Cloudflare. Data Studio requires you to have at least the Workers Platform Admin role, and all queries are captured with audit logging for your security and compliance needs. Queries executed by Data Studio send requests to your remote, deployed objects and incur normal usage billing.

To learn more, visit the Data Studio documentation. If you have feedback or suggestions for the new Data Studio, please share your experience on Discord

Durable Objects, Workers - New getByName() API to access Durable Objects

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

You can now create a client (a Durable Object stub) to a Durable Object with the new getByName method, removing the need to convert Durable Object names to IDs and then create a stub.

// Before: (1) translate name to ID then (2) get a client
const objectId = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.idFromName("foo"); // or .newUniqueId()
const stub = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.get(objectId);

// Now: retrieve client to Durable Object directly via its name
const stub = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.getByName("foo");

// Use client to send request to the remote Durable Object
const rpcResponse = await stub.sayHello();

Each Durable Object has a globally-unique name, which allows you to send requests to a specific object from anywhere in the world. Thus, a Durable Object can be used to coordinate between multiple clients who need to work together. You can have billions of Durable Objects, providing isolation between application tenants.

To learn more, visit the Durable Objects API Documentation or the getting started guide.

Durable Objects, Workers - @cloudflare/actors library - SDK for Durable Objects in beta

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The new @cloudflare/actors library is now in beta!

The @cloudflare/actors library is a new SDK for Durable Objects and provides a powerful set of abstractions for building real-time, interactive, and multiplayer applications on top of Durable Objects. With beta usage and feedback, @cloudflare/actors will become the recommended way to build on Durable Objects and draws upon Cloudflare's experience building products/features on Durable Objects.

The name "actors" originates from the actor programming model, which closely ties to how Durable Objects are modelled.

The @cloudflare/actors library includes:

Storage helpers for querying embeddeded, per-object SQLite storage
Storage helpers for managing SQL schema migrations
Alarm helpers for scheduling multiple alarms provided a date, delay in seconds, or cron expression
Actor class for using Durable Objects with a defined pattern
Durable Objects Workers API is always available for your application as needed

Storage and alarm helper methods can be combined with any Javascript class that defines your Durable Object, i.e, ones that extend DurableObject including the Actor class.

import { Storage } from "@cloudflare/actors/storage";

export class ChatRoom extends DurableObject<Env> {
    storage: Storage;

    constructor(ctx: DurableObjectState, env: Env) {
        super(ctx, env)
        this.storage = new Storage(ctx.storage);
        this.storage.migrations = [{
            idMonotonicInc: 1,
            description: "Create users table",
            sql: "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY)"
        }]
    }
    async fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
        // Run migrations before executing SQL query
        await this.storage.runMigrations();

        // Query with SQL template
        let userId = new URL(request.url).searchParams.get("userId");
        const query = this.storage.sql`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${userId};`
        return new Response(`${JSON.stringify(query)}`);
    }
}

@cloudflare/actors library introduces the Actor class pattern. Actor lets you access Durable Objects without writing the Worker that communicates with your Durable Object (the Worker is created for you). By default, requests are routed to a Durable Object named "default".

export class MyActor extends Actor<Env> {
    async fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
        return new Response('Hello, World!')
    }
}

export default handler(MyActor);

You can route to different Durable Objects by name within your Actor class using nameFromRequest.

export class MyActor extends Actor<Env> {
    static nameFromRequest(request: Request): string {
        let url = new URL(request.url);
        return url.searchParams.get("userId") ?? "foo";
    }

    async fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
        return new Response(`Actor identifier (Durable Object name): ${this.identifier}`);
    }
}

export default handler(MyActor);

For more examples, check out the library README. @cloudflare/actors library is a place for more helpers and built-in patterns, like retry handling and Websocket-based applications, to reduce development overhead for common Durable Objects functionality. Please share feedback and what more you would like to see on our Discord channel.

Workers, Durable Objects - Durable Objects are now supported in Python Workers

Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

You can now create Durable Objects using Python Workers. A Durable Object is a special kind of Cloudflare Worker which uniquely combines compute with storage, enabling stateful long-running applications which run close to your users. For more info see here.

You can define a Durable Object in Python in a similar way to JavaScript:

from workers import DurableObject, Response, WorkerEntrypoint

from urllib.parse import urlparse

class MyDurableObject(DurableObject):
    def __init__(self, ctx, env):
        self.ctx = ctx
        self.env = env

    def fetch(self, request):
        result = self.ctx.storage.sql.exec("SELECT 'Hello, World!' as greeting").one()
        return Response(result.greeting)

class Default(WorkerEntrypoint):
    async def fetch(self, request):
        url = urlparse(request.url)
        id = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.idFromName(url.path)
        stub = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.get(id)
        greeting = await stub.fetch(request.url)
        return greeting

Define the Durable Object in your Wrangler configuration file:

wrangler.jsonc

{
  "durable_objects": {
    "bindings": [
      {
        "name": "MY_DURABLE_OBJECT",
        "class_name": "MyDurableObject"
      }
    ]
  }
}

wrangler.toml

[[durable_objects.bindings]]
name = "MY_DURABLE_OBJECT"
class_name = "MyDurableObject"

Then define the storage backend for your Durable Object:

wrangler.jsonc

{
  "migrations": [
    {
      "tag": "v1", // Should be unique for each entry
      "new_sqlite_classes": [ // Array of new classes
        "MyDurableObject"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

wrangler.toml

[[migrations]]
tag = "v1"
new_sqlite_classes = [ "MyDurableObject" ]

Then test your new Durable Object locally by running wrangler dev:

npx wrangler dev

Consult the Durable Objects documentation for more details.

Durable Objects, Workers - Durable Objects on Workers Free plan

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Durable Objects can now be used with zero commitment on the Workers Free plan allowing you to build AI agents with Agents SDK, collaboration tools, and real-time applications like chat or multiplayer games.

Durable Objects let you build stateful, serverless applications with millions of tiny coordination instances that run your application code alongside (in the same thread!) your durable storage. Each Durable Object can access its own SQLite database through a Storage API. A Durable Object class is defined in a Worker script encapsulating the Durable Object's behavior when accessed from a Worker. To try the code below, click the button:

import { DurableObject } from "cloudflare:workers";

// Durable Object
export class MyDurableObject extends DurableObject {
  ...
  async sayHello(name) {
    return `Hello, ${name}!`;
  }
}

// Worker
export default {
  async fetch(request, env) {
    // Every unique ID refers to an individual instance of the Durable Object class
    const id = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.idFromName("foo");

    // A stub is a client used to invoke methods on the Durable Object
    const stub = env.MY_DURABLE_OBJECT.get(id);

    // Methods on the Durable Object are invoked via the stub
    const response = await stub.sayHello("world");

    return response;
  },
};

Free plan limits apply to Durable Objects compute and storage usage. Limits allow developers to build real-world applications, with every Worker request able to call a Durable Object on the free plan.

For more information, checkout:

Durable Objects, Workers - SQLite in Durable Objects GA with 10GB storage per object

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

SQLite in Durable Objects is now generally available (GA) with 10GB SQLite database per Durable Object. Since the public beta in September 2024, we've added feature parity and robustness for the SQLite storage backend compared to the preexisting key-value (KV) storage backend for Durable Objects.

SQLite-backed Durable Objects are recommended for all new Durable Object classes, using new_sqlite_classes Wrangler configuration. Only SQLite-backed Durable Objects have access to Storage API's SQL and point-in-time recovery methods, which provide relational data modeling, SQL querying, and better data management.

export class MyDurableObject extends DurableObject {
  sql: SqlStorage
  constructor(ctx: DurableObjectState, env: Env) {
    super(ctx, env);
    this.sql = ctx.storage.sql;
  }

  async sayHello() {
    let result = this.sql
      .exec("SELECT 'Hello, World!' AS greeting")
      .one();
    return result.greeting;
  }
}

KV-backed Durable Objects remain for backwards compatibility, and a migration path from key-value storage to SQL storage for existing Durable Object classes will be offered in the future.

For more details on SQLite storage, checkout Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object blog.