Source-linked reports: Amounts and outcomes come from the original reports and linked replies.
Workers AI charged $292 for Gemma usage the author expected to cost about $8.
Community user whatwolf says Workers AI charged $292 for about 15,000 gemma-4-26b-a4b-it calls that should cost around $8 to $9 at the documented $0.10 and $0.30 per million input and output token prices, about 37 times higher than expected.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Inference volume
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-04-11
- Billing outcome
- Not recorded
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Original sources
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Case timeline
Author reports the charge
Open original sourceThe author reports a $292 Gemma charge against an expected cost of about $8.
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