[renonce]

So now you say on your webpage your pricing is $1/TB or something. Great. But there is a caveat: the amount you pay depends on some complex factors such as the size of the table or the duration of your code. If the factors are so simple that no more than grade-level arithmetic is required to calculate my costs then that would be fine. But what if it gets a little bit more complex than that, such as “table size is 1PB and cost per 1TB is $1”? Did you know 1PB=1000TB rather than 0.001TB? What about “you need another $10 query to figure out the size of the table”? Or “the cost depends on number of function calls that your code makes and if you accidentally recursed yourself too many times you can’t limit it”? Or “The server is $5/mon but IP is $1/h and outbound traffic is $10/GB and if someone download something 1TB on your server you will pay $10000 within 2 hours”? At some point the factors related to billing is going to become non-trivial and every sentence in a long 10 page document could have 100x’d your costs, what makes this service different from a scam? You could have allowed me to set a billing cap so I won’t have to pay anything beyond $10, so that “$10” is everything I have to care about, could you?

[handoflixue]

> At some point the factors related to billing is going to become non-trivial

First response on the OG link covers this with a screenshot: the size of the query is previewed beforehand, and you have to check a checkbox to acknowledge it. (I dare say listing it in PB instead of $$$ is still a scummy move, etc. - but they do resolve about half of your concerns right there)