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I would not suggest using cloudflare containers for ffmpeg. Feels like it is the nost expensive product they have. Queue to aws spot instances or just have dedicated hetzner machine

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This is the perfect use of cloudflare containers. Rare, bursty workloads that fit around regular use of Workers.

I use them to generate thumbnails when uploading large photo files for my personal flickr clone, not even noticeable in billing.

This person is only running it for a few minutes once a week or so. Any pay-by-the-minute VM is fine for them.

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