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title: "Durable Workflows - Multi-Step Application Engine"
description: "Build durable multi-step applications. Step-based execution, automatic retries, state management, and human-in-the-loop workflows on Cloudflare Workers, Workflows and Durable Objects."
url: "https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/workflows"
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# Workflows

> Build durable multi-step applications.

Workflows is an execution engine built on Cloudflare Workers — to build applications that can automatically retry, persist state and run for minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Workflows introduces a programming model that makes it easier to build reliable, long-running tasks, observe progression, and programmatically trigger events-based instances based across your services.

## Benefits

### Step-based

Any logic wrapped in a step can be automatically retried and memoized for durability.

### State included

Every instance persists to its own local state: no need to set up or manage a database or control plane.

### Human-in-the-loop

Wait on external events: webhooks, approvals, queue messages — you name it.

## Features

### Step-based execution

Any logic wrapped in a step can be automatically retried and memoized for durability.

### Built-in state management

Every instance persists to its own local state: no need to set up or manage a database or control plane.

### Human-in-the-loop

Wait on external events: webhooks, approvals, queue messages — you name it.

### Automatic retries

Built-in retry logic with exponential backoff and configurable retry policies for resilient execution.

### Observability included

Built-in logging, metrics, and tracing to monitor workflow execution and debug issues.

### Event-driven triggers

Programmatically trigger workflow instances based on events across your services.

### Scale-to-zero pricing

Pay only for the CPU cycles your workflows actually use — idle workflows cost nothing.

## Use Cases

### Building AI agents

Code review tasks, compact context, or processing data

### Asynchronous tasks

Lifecycle emails, billing jobs, and critical data processing tasks

### Post-processing user-generated content

Run inference, clean up or validate uploaded content

### Step-based execution included

Any logic wrapped in a step can be automatically retried and memoized for durability with zero configuration.

### State management for zero config

Automatically persist workflow state without setting up databases or control planes

### Event-driven architecture

Built on Workers to provide an out of the box event-driven layer, with global distribution included

### Durable by design

Your workflows run at the edge in 330+ cities worldwide — with [D1 databases](https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/), [KV storage](https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/), and [R2 object storage](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/) available for state management.

### Event-driven ready

Deploy both workflows and triggers together — from [webhooks](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/build-a-slackbot/#configure-your-github-webhooks) to [queue messages](https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/), all with automatic retry and state management.

### Observable by default

Built-in [logging](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/observability/logs/), [metrics](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/observability/metrics-analytics/#metrics), and tracing help you monitor and debug workflow execution.

## Get Started

- [Sign up](https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up): Create a Cloudflare account
- [Documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com): Read the full documentation

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*This is a markdown version of [https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/workflows](https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/workflows) for AI/LLM consumption.*