The results of the benchmark are somewhat inconclusive. Both platforms were heavily affected by slower global load times (due to assets not being cached in the user's regional point-of-presence yet). This drove all average metrics up significantly. This was not representative of performance experienced by, e.g. UK users, which experienced results up to 10x better than average. Either way, both platforms performed fairly similarly.

Over the course of the benchmark, the platforms have also been updated, including implementing some of each other's features as described in the above section. However, notably, Vercel has had far and away the best experience in development, deployment and monitoring. Generally, Vercel's offering, while more expensive, is much more polished and ready for use by most web developers. On the other hand, the experience of using Cloudflare pages or workers will likely feel somewhat alien and unintuitive to those unfamiliar with the platform, even if the technology is incredibly powerful and promising.

While I am looking forward to the improvements Cloudflare is making to their platform, for the time being this website will remain hosted on Vercel only. Cloudflare Workers are still a great offering for edge computing, reverse proxies and blazing-fast edge middleware, even if the DX is not quite there yet.