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Agentic Adam: an idle moltworker container and a reported $21.80 bill on a $5 plan.
@AdamAutomates says he followed Cloudflare's guide to deploy openclaw on the $5/month plan and left it idle for nine days with zero storage and zero traffic, then saw a $21.80 bill. He says Containers bill per GiB-second of memory even when idle, the included usage lasted about three hours, and the other $16 was overage with no warnings or alerts.
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- 2026-02-07 23:00 UTC
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Idle deployment bills $21.80
Read on 𝕏Quoting Cloudflare's Moltworker announcement, the author says the deployment sat idle for nine days and the bill came to $21.80. He says the included usage tier lasted about three hours, the other $16 was silent overage, and it averages out to an extra $60 a month while idle.
Agentic Adam - DeployAIWorkers.com
@AdamAutomates · Original 𝕏 post
so @Cloudflare put out a whole blog post showing everyone how to deploy @openclaw on their $5/mo plan. i followed the guide. zero storage. zero traffic. left it idle for 9 days. my bill? $21.80... turns out containers charge per GiB-second of memory even doing absolutely… pic.twitter.com/owFPWQMmbV
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Steven Menke: an Agents SDK bug and a reported $1,700 Durable Objects invoice.
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OpenCils: a $231 D1 charge reported waived after a three-month ticket.
@OpenCils reports emailing Cloudflare on June 24 about a D1 charge. He says billing support forwarded the ticket to billing engineering on August 27, and that Cloudflare later waived the $231 D1 charge as a one-time courtesy and lifted account restrictions.