CloudFlare Images Pricing - small use case
Hello, with the new pricing of images, if I choose no storage, it will pop to a pay that says 'Images Transformations: $1.00 per 2,000 images transformed '. However, in the documents, it also said - $0.50 per 1K unique transformations per month
- 5K transformations included'
May I ask with CloudFlare Images:
1. If I have one unique transformation, will I be billed $0.01, $0.5 or $1? Is the pricing in Images, including transformations, storage and delivery pro-rated to 0.01 or their respective minimum pricing (e.g. $5 for any image stored below 100,000)?
2. Is the '5K transformations included' available for Free or Pro plans or it is only available upon any payments?
Thanks a lot!
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If I have one unique transformation, will I be billed $0.01, $0.5 or $1?It's billed individually so would be 0.5/1000 = $0.0005 for one request. Note that also Cloudflare does not charge for total bills smaller than $0.50 anyway. The $0.50/1k and $1/2k numbers are the same pricing shown in different ways.
Is the pricing in Images, including transformations, storage and delivery pro-rated to 0.01 or their respective minimum pricing (e.g. $5 for any image stored below 100,000)?This question is a lot to digest but, storage is the only thing that is prepaid and that is billed in bundles of $5 worth, the delivery/transforms are post-paid and calculated for each individual one.
Is the '5K transformations included' available for Free or Pro plans or it is only available upon any payments?Should be available to everyone, afaik there is no difference in Free/Pro for the new Images plans that start at $0. @Deanna | Images may be able to confirm that for me though as I am not 100% sure.
Yes, all plans will get 5K unique transformations for free
We're working on updating the documentation and UI to clarify pricing. Unique transformations don't incur the storage/delivery fees that are listed in that screenshot
If you store your images in the Images product, then you'll be charged by "images stored" and "images delivered." If you store your images outside of the Images product (whether in R2 or another vendor), then you'll be charged by only "images transformed"
Hi, many thanks for the clarification. Just one more question: since Erisa above said CloudFlare does not charge total bills smaller than 0.5 USD, if Images is the sole product I 'pay' for, since the transformation is plenty and images are charged at $1.00 per 100K, does it mean if I use my own storage, I have 'free' 50K delivery every month?
Another question being, if someone malicious send millions of requests to my images, I assume I will be responsible for the billing of those as well?
If your total bill is under $0.50, then you won't be charged. To clarify, the "$1.00 per 100K images delivered" cost doesn't apply if you're not storing your images in the Images product. There are two different pricing models depending on how you're using Images:
If you store your images in Images:
$5.00 per 100K images stored
$1.00 per 100K images delivered
If you store your images outside of Images:
$0.50 per 1K unique transformations
if someone malicious send millions of requests to my images, I assume I will be responsible for the billing of those as well?Yes. Each unique request counts toward billable usage. You have the option to either allow transformations from any origin or limit transformations to only images on your zone. We're scoping out a feature that lets you specify origins for transformations, but this isn't available yet
I will also note that if you have concerns about an unexpected bill then you can contact Billing support and they will try their best to assist with it
So basically if storing own images from own domain, I get 5k transformations for free? And I guess '20 unique variants' in the Images bundle is somehow different?
But anyway, many many thanks for response in such detail.
And I assume the 5k transformations are unique transformations as well?
Yes, 5K unique transformations for free
Can you screenshot where you're seeing this? Nevermind, I see! Yes, variants refer to images that are stored in Images
20 unique variants