Durable Objects
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“durable objects and workers are game changer for me”
“workers and DO are just so fantastic to build on”
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“Durable Objects are really neat, not everything has to be giant and scalable in every way.”
“how powerfull Durable Objects is”
“In many cases, I think using Cloudflare's Durable Objects is probably the right call instead.”
Caveats and dissent
“Cloudflare is also struggling to explain durable objects for years”
“currently it doesn't scale well at all”
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“Durable Objects currently doesn't work across multiple machines”
“I've very very much tried to use Durable Objects over and over and keep coming back”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Cloudflare's Durable Objects puts your Worker and SQLite DB on the same physical server”
“running on cloudflare durable objects”
“Durable Objects is the Cloudflare Developer Platform's product for building stateful serverless applications.”
Threads where it came up
- Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects 4 mentions
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) 2 mentions
- Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016) 1 mention
- Cloudflare acquires Deno 1 mention
- Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? 1 mention
Also written as Durable Objects. Data: durable-objects.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“durable objects and workers are game changer for me”
There is rivet and terse https://github.com/elyase/awesome-object-storage-native#stateful-applications-and-durable-actors
“workers and DO are just so fantastic to build on”
“Durable Objects are really neat, not everything has to be giant and scalable in every way.”
“how powerfull Durable Objects is”
“Cloudflare is also struggling to explain durable objects for years”
“Lots of fun tech used: duckDB WASM, Cloudflare Durable Objects, tldraw and pocketbase”
“I was investigating Durable Objects (DO)”
“I'd use Durable Objects (or what I called Session Backends in my article”
“In many cases, I think using Cloudflare's Durable Objects is probably the right call instead.”
“the stuff is great when it works but Durable Objects can be quite expensive.”
“currently it doesn't scale well at all”
“It worked really well!”
“I used Cloudflare DO as it was elegant and convenient”
“Durable Objects currently doesn't work across multiple machines”
“it really does not provide anything like durable objects”
“works pretty well”
“The game runs on Cloudflare Durable Objects, one of my favorite web primitives”
“Durable Objects for agent state is the correct move for low-latency memory.”
“durable objects: Most important is the Ocean logic for me.”
“connects to Cloudflare durable object web sockets”
“access is ridiculously fast”
“To give it fast access, you might consider using a Durable Object.”
“Durable Objects make stateful coordination and atomic colocation of data&compute near a user suuuuuper easy.”
“I love the idea of DOs and I'm happy to see an OSS implementation.”
“have been delighted with how easy they (and PartyKit) make building multiplayer apps like this”
“so transactions are essentially free with no possibility of conflicts”
“it's Cloudflare Durable Objects underneath”
“I've very very much tried to use Durable Objects over and over and keep coming back”
“For example, what you might not know about Durable Objects”