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philonl: Smart Shield Argo bills 15 GB a day while analytics show 2.9 GB of traffic.
Community user philonl says daily Smart Shield Argo charges look far higher than actual traffic: on one day, billable usage shows 15 GB of Argo Accelerated Gigabytes at $1.50, while HTTP traffic analytics and the caching overview both show 2.9 GB of data transfer, most of it served by Cloudflare. The author cites the docs saying cached responses avoid Argo charges, calls the daily charges 30 times higher than actual traffic, and opened ticket 02272315.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Traffic spike
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-08-07
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author opened ticket 02272315 about the Argo charges; no outcome is reported.
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Case timeline
Author questions Argo billing against traffic analytics
Open original sourceThe author reports 15 GB billed at $1.50 on a day when analytics show 2.9 GB, and opens ticket 02272315.
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