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I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

by phn 6y ago

kentonv 6y ago
For those in the beta, it's currently free. We are still working out what pricing will look like post-beta. We realized we need to see how people actually use it and get some feedback before we could settle on the right pricing structure... that's what betas are for.
- phn 6y ago
  Thank you for answering. In retrospect my comment looks a bit dry in comparison with the monumental achievement so: Congrats on launching! It's awesome to see Cap'n Proto and sandstorm's legacy living on :)
  - ocdtrekkie 6y ago
    FWIW, as a community project, Sandstorm also continues to live on! ;) There's been some pretty substantial refactorings going on and a bunch of quality of life fixes, sometimes closing out 5+ year old feature requests.
- pencilcode 6y ago
  Would something like a tinyurl clone also be a good use case for this? On a first hand look, it does look good.
  - pencilcode 6y ago
    Although if the object is single threaded too many reads might overload it. Or is the object then replicated?
    - kentonv 6y ago
      I would probably recommend using Workers KV for a tinyurl clone. Consistency is not important for this use case.
greg-m 6y ago
Hey, I'm Greg, the PM working on Durable Objects at Cloudflare. As part of the private beta, we're looking to get feedback on the best way to price Durable Object so they're accessible for all applications - small or large. While we're in beta, storage access will be free. As we're thinking about it now, once we're out of beta this wouldn't be included in the base $5/mo plan. Since there's both a compute component (a Durable Object runs code, like a Worker) and a storage component (for storage operations) to the product, we want the long-term pricing model to mesh those two in a transparent, competitive way. While we're not finalized on price yet, you can expect that costs for storage will be cheaper than existing services like AWS DynamoDB or Google Cloud Firestore when we move out of beta.
- tmikaeld 6y ago
  "you can expect that costs for storage will be cheaper than existing services like AWS DynamoDB or Google Cloud Firestore" That's a great lead for pricing.
  - pibefision 6y ago
    excellent response also.
- tmikaeld 6y ago
  Do you expect data transfer (bandwidth) to still be free?
eastdakota 6y ago
As others said, we’re figuring out pricing during beta but hope to keep it in-line with pricing for Workers KV. And it may be possible for us to get pricing even lower than that.

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

by phn 6y ago

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

For those in the beta, it's currently free. We are still working out what pricing will look like post-beta. We realized we need to see how people actually use it and get some feedback before we could settle on the right pricing structure... that's what betas are for.

phn 6y ago
Thank you for answering. In retrospect my comment looks a bit dry in comparison with the monumental achievement so: Congrats on launching! It's awesome to see Cap'n Proto and sandstorm's legacy living on :)
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  FWIW, as a community project, Sandstorm also continues to live on! ;) There's been some pretty substantial refactorings going on and a bunch of quality of life fixes, sometimes closing out 5+ year old feature requests.
pencilcode 6y ago
Would something like a tinyurl clone also be a good use case for this? On a first hand look, it does look good.
- pencilcode 6y ago
  Although if the object is single threaded too many reads might overload it. Or is the object then replicated?
  - kentonv 6y ago
    I would probably recommend using Workers KV for a tinyurl clone. Consistency is not important for this use case.

greg-m 6y ago

Hey, I'm Greg, the PM working on Durable Objects at Cloudflare. As part of the private beta, we're looking to get feedback on the best way to price Durable Object so they're accessible for all applications - small or large. While we're in beta, storage access will be free. As we're thinking about it now, once we're out of beta this wouldn't be included in the base $5/mo plan. Since there's both a compute component (a Durable Object runs code, like a Worker) and a storage component (for storage operations) to the product, we want the long-term pricing model to mesh those two in a transparent, competitive way. While we're not finalized on price yet, you can expect that costs for storage will be cheaper than existing services like AWS DynamoDB or Google Cloud Firestore when we move out of beta.

tmikaeld 6y ago
"you can expect that costs for storage will be cheaper than existing services like AWS DynamoDB or Google Cloud Firestore" That's a great lead for pricing.
- pibefision 6y ago
  excellent response also.
tmikaeld 6y ago
Do you expect data transfer (bandwidth) to still be free?

eastdakota 6y ago

As others said, we’re figuring out pricing during beta but hope to keep it in-line with pricing for Workers KV. And it may be possible for us to get pricing even lower than that.