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From personal experience I know that 10TB per month is like 30k/year and SSL for SaaS is around 40k/year on the enterprise plan. No idea about pricing for having your own IP.

I have no idea why Cloudflare would ask you to use these two features. SSL for SaaS is only useful if you want to add domains and certificates via API.

I have had my fair share of negative experience with Cloudflare but this is next level bad. Unfortunately companies can chose who they want to do business with but it shouldn't be like this.

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From personal experience I know that 10TB per month is like 30k/year

What the hell? That's way more than AWS costs, 90% of which would be egress fees. And cloudflare has done a lot of marketing to rightfully call out those egress fees as far too high.

It's the whole enterprise plan, you can't only buy traffic. So you also get all the features which you don't need or want as you can see from the screenshota shared in the original post.

Even on the enterprise plan they don't really start to talk to you about traffic until you are like 3x over your contracted traffic for a couple of months.

It sucks, it feels like they are competing against themselves because they don't have clear pricing or limits.

> 10TB per month is like 30k/year

That can’t be right. I’ve hit 10+ TB within a few weeks on free tier and everything was fine

> Unfortunately companies can chose who they want to do business with but it shouldn't be like this.

If you have a contract with them then they can't arbitrarily choose who they do business with. OP would presumably have a chance at a lawsuit against cloudflare here, the success of which would depend on how well cloudflare argued the ToS violation. A lawsuit might not be worth pursuing here, but this isn't a case of "it can't be helped".

You signed the ToS, article 4 gives them the ability to terminate the service.

Courts generally require termination of contract to require a good reason, even when the clause says it can happen at the company's discretion. That doesn't lock them out of a court case, though it certain opens up which reasons cloudflare could argue the termination happened for.

> From personal experience I know that 10TB per month is like 30k/year

Is this true? We are at 3TB and growing so I'm slightly concerned

It's not even 100Mbps sustained. That is nowhere near 30k/year or you're getting ripped off.

For 3k/month you can get a good quality 10Gbps link. That's 3.2PB with a P.

Yeah that's why I was asking

Start making a backup plan

If you are doing any serious business you should have a plan B always ready (ie: fastly) and a downgraded state where you can operate without a CDN.

Almost all of our state is stored inside Durable Objects and R2 and we use Workers extensively

And by extensively I mean it's literally our entire infrastructure

I've done 7TB/mo for many months in a row on the free tier, no issues so far.

Lmao. non cdn traffic for 1tb from an eu provider is 1 euro/tb. And you're telling me 80tb is worth. 30k/month? That's a joke, right?

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