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Free-plan user reports an unexpected $10 R2 charge with no bucket usage.
Community user 2145973003 reports a $10.00 USD card charge on August 10, 2026 while on the Free plan for mundus.cc, says they never set up R2 buckets or used the R2 API, and could not find a Create a Case button on the Billing support page.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unknown
- Incident date
- 2026-08-10
- First reported
- 2026-08-10
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author intends not to pay an unauthorized charge and asks how to open a billing case; the thread auto-closed without a resolution.
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Author reports unexpected $10 Free-plan charge
Open original sourceThe author reports a $10.00 charge attributed to R2 despite no bucket usage and inability to submit a support case.
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