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Free-tier user reports a $76.04 Containers invoice with no visible projects to stop.
qingyumeng1128 reports invoice charges of $76.04 for Container Memory, vCPU and Disk while describing themselves as Free-tier. The author says Workers & Pages showed no projects yet still listed requests and CPU time, and the Containers (Beta) page required purchasing a plan, so nothing could be stopped from the dashboard.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Active duration
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-02-28
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author asks billing support to resolve the unexpected Containers invoice; no staff outcome is in the thread.
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Author reports Free-tier Containers invoice
Open original sourceThe author reports a $76.04 Containers invoice while unable to see or stop running container usage from the Free-tier dashboard.
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