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guvensenol: $9.00 for 27 R2 Infrequent Access lifecycle operations, billed as a full million.
Community user guvensenol (MobiKreş) says an invoice charged $9.00 for 27 R2 Infrequent Access Class A operations, which the author puts at about $0.0002 of real cost because billing rounds up to one million operations. The operations were lifecycle transitions of 27 small backup files. The author removed the lifecycle rule, emailed billing@cloudflare.com on September 24 with no reply, found no case form on the Free plan, and asks for a one-time goodwill refund or credit. A community MVP replies that this is how R2 is billed and links the pricing page.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unknown
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-09-28
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author asks for a one-time goodwill refund or credit; no reply from billing is reported in the thread.
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Author asks to refund a $9.00 R2 IA rounding charge
Open original sourceThe author reports 27 lifecycle-transition operations billed as one million at $9.00, says the billing email got no reply, and asks for a goodwill refund or credit.
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