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celld

Run Cloudflare Workers apps and Durable Objects on your own servers

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What it is

A Rust daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers bundles straight from an existing wrangler.json, and also supports Durable Objects, static assets, Cron Triggers, Workflows, Queues, KV, R2, and D1. Each object lives in a named cell backed by its own SQLite database, which is copied between nodes and kept long-term in a bucket on Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, or any S3-compatible store, without requiring a consensus service. Teams that built on the Workers platform can deploy the same projects to their own machines or Kubernetes clusters, and develop locally with a single dev command.

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5,969 GitHub stars.
5,969

Forks
393
Commits
13
Contributors
2
Language
Rust
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 7, 2026
On GitHub since
April 2025
First release
August 2026
Platforms
Linux, CLI, self-hosted
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
Cloudflare Workers
Tags
  • containers
  • web-server
  • deployment
  • database

Last synced from GitHub on Oct 20, 2026

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 20, 2026
  • Hacker NewsCelld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable ObjectsAug 5, 2026 · 286 points · 54 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsDeterministic Simulation Testing in CelldOct 9, 2026 · 37 points · 5 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects. celld is an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines. - celld…”Aug 7, 2026 · 39 likes · 3 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsCelld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable ObjectsAug 13, 2026 · 22 points · 7 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsSelf-hosted, distributed Durable Objects and WorkersAug 5, 2026 · 17 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Ryan's recent celld.dev also falls into this bucket. An API-compatible self-hostable version of Cloudflare's Durable Objects Complete with TLA+ modeling and…”Aug 24, 2026 · 12 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“found this one today: (ultra simplified) it lets you build multiplayer apps on aws s3 celld.dev #opensource #github #aws #storage”Aug 13, 2026 · 12 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker Newscelld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable ObjectsAug 9, 2026 · 4 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“They're buying it for just celld AFAICT celld.dev”Oct 9, 2026 · 3 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I'd be interested in working with you on edge scripts fwiw. Particularly if you are also interested in celld too, using v8 isolates.”Oct 5, 2026 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsDeterministic Simulation Testing in CelldOct 4, 2026 · 3 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Cloudflare WorkersとDurable Objects互換のAPIの実装。 LTXとS3互換ストレージで分散Durable Objectsを実現している。 "celld: self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects" #cloudflare #JavaScript…”Aug 18, 2026 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇”Aug 6, 2026 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“denoland / celld: self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects ★5406”Oct 11, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“this should blocked as anti-competitive, since it seems they are buying Deno to acquire the Deno’s open source version of Cloudflare Durable Objects”Oct 9, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“5/ Celld. Cloudflare-style Workers and Durable Objects on your own boxes. Each object is a SQLite database replicated to an S3 bucket you own, and nodes…”Aug 11, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“hype is real celld.dev”Aug 5, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“durable objects, but running on your own boxes. celld is a self-hosted distributed durable objects runtime in rust, from the deno team. stateful serverless…”Aug 15, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“denoland/celld: self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects #devopsish”Aug 12, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“6. The Rustaceans at Deno open-sourced celld, a daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines.”Aug 10, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)