A Durable Object loses all in-memory state when evicted after a period without requests
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:30.317Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:30.317Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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A Durable Object stays in memory only while it is active. After a short idle period with no requests, no open WebSockets and no pending alarm, the runtime evicts it, and the next request constructs a fresh instance. Anything held in instance fields is gone; only what was written through the storage API survives.
The rule that follows is to treat instance fields as a cache in front of storage rather than as the state itself. A counter incremented only in memory silently resets to its stored value. The opposite mistake is writing on every request when writing on change would do, since storage writes are billed and gated. The usual middle ground keeps the value in memory, writes through on change, and relies on the object living long enough that reads stay cheap.
Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/
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