Workflows step pricing: a migration team’s cost estimate
daniel101 compares a proposed per-step meter with a production workload and discusses the trade-off between granular retries and projected cost. The figures are estimates, not an issued bill.
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- In the July discussion, the author describes 30 workflows and about 20 million instances per month. Applying the proposed meter to the trailing 30 days gives about 200 million billable steps and an estimated $1,600 per month, versus a prior $0 step-charge line item. These are the author’s historical workload estimates.
- The author says the documentation encouraged splitting calls into separate steps so each can retry independently. He objects that per-step pricing creates an incentive to combine steps at the expense of durability, and asks for volume tiers and documentation aligned with the cost model.
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