Caching · Content tag
Browse cases and guides discussing caching.
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Cases · 2
A voting page polling every three seconds: the author revises a $1,000 report.
@keking99 first reports about $1,000 for a voting page polling /api/result every three seconds. A later post reports $816.52 in accumulated usage as of October 4 and cites another screenshot total of $817.14. He later says his support ticket keeps being refused.
Reported amount · USD
$816.52
D1 row reads: a $134.14 invoice from unindexed queries.
Justin Ahinon reports that his April 21, 2026 Cloudflare invoice was $134.14, with $127.60 from 127,599,130,859 D1 row reads on a 765,000-row database. He attributes it to full table scans in queries that ran on every page load.
Reported amount · USD
$134.14
Guides · 4
How I keep Cloudflare under $5: where surprise bills come from
Ashish Sharma (@sarmaasis) runs several sites on the $5 Workers Paid plan and lists, product by product, the usage patterns he says quietly run up a Cloudflare bill, ending with a 12-item checklist.
Four layers of cost protection for small Cloudflare projects
David Z (@davezfr) writes an X article for vibe coders on budget alerts, stop conditions for paid paths, automatic pausing, and letting a personal agent verify and pause.
Cloudflare cost playbook
A community playbook for Cloudflare cost retrospectives, cost models, and code review.
Optimize costs
Cloudflare lists ways to find and reduce usage-based charges by product.