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A D1 migration burst far past a $10 budget; the author asks for a billing grace.
Community user maxsandrew, a hobbyist on Workers Paid whose previous cycles were under $30, says moving large tables between two D1 databases to stay under the 10 GB limit pushed the bill to 8,274% of a $10 budget alert that he missed; no dollar amount is stated. He says there is no hard per-cycle stop, that batch jobs are now gated and that a support ticket was opened, and asks whether a one-time billing grace is possible.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Write volume
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-09-03
- Billing outcome
- Not recorded
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Original sources
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Case timeline
Author reports the migration writes
Open original sourceThe author reports migration writes far past a $10 budget and asks about a one-time billing grace.
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