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I have never used functions before, but this seems like this is very expensive compared it every other cloud service provided like Digitalocean, AWS, GCP, and A

I have never used functions before, but this seems like this is very expensive compared it every other cloud service provided like Digitalocean, AWS, GCP, and Azure. I might be way off, but this would cost under $100 on all of them and you would most likely get a refund if you talked to support. So why is Vercel so expensive? Do they not have a pricing limits that you can set? Seems like a very bad idea to run functions that are cost per usage on a service that has no way for you to set limits on usage.

flockonus 4y ago
After learning about this I will stay away until they implement obvious limits on usage. Not cool to have to appeal for public viral posting to waive an unfair bill.
neurostimulant 4y ago
In a serverless environment, you're only billed for how long your function is running. However, in this case the function never terminates even after request it handles completed. I suspect the user made a mistake of deploying a traditional web app (where there is a main process that route requests and wait indefinitely for next requests) instead of deploying individual "function" that terminates gracefully after handling the request. Seems to be an honest mistake to make for first time user. In other platform, his process will be killed by the timeout limit (serverless platform usually has a strict timeout limit) but for some reason, in vercell it keep on running forever and racked up a huge bill.