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granit.orllati: R2 charges climbed to $95.94 from 401-rejected retries after deleting the bucket.
Community user granit.orllati says an R2 bucket was used from August 3 to 7 and those charges are accepted, but after deleting the bucket and revoking every API token on August 7, an rclone client kept retrying on a timer and every request was rejected with HTTP 401. Storage stayed at 0 B, yet the pending charge climbed from $5.22 on August 7 to $95.94 against 21.64 million Class A operations. The author asks whether 401-rejected requests are billed as Class A operations and wants a per-day breakdown. Billing ticket 02270348 had been closed on August 7 at a $5.22 estimate. Another user replies that such calls cost even if not authenticated.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Repeated polling
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-08-10
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author's billing ticket 02270348 was closed at a $5.22 estimate; the author posts again in the Refunds area asking how the later charges are billed. No outcome is reported.
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Author reports charges from 401-rejected R2 retries
Open original sourceThe author says pending charges rose from $5.22 to $95.94 with 21.64M Class A operations after the bucket and tokens were deleted.
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