[freakynit]

The pricing with such offerings is the biggest throwoff. This one comes out to be more than $58/month for just 1vCpu and 1GiB RAM when used continuously.

Compare this with instances from Hetzner or Contabo or the likes. They are 35+ times cheaper.

This means my total usage across entire month on cloudflare sandbox cannot cross even one single day of non-stop usage, just to break-even with hetzner/contabo/others.

[bluelightning2k]

That's like comparing any serverless offering to a continuously running host.

Continuously running means you're doing it wrong / it's a bad fit. But yes the ratio is somewhat extreme.

[freakynit]

Ideal when traffic is sporadic.

[thegeomaster]

It's interesting to also compare this to getting a bare metal instance and provisioning microVMs on it using Firecracker. (Obviously something you shouldn't roll yourself in most cases.)

You can get a bare metal AX162 from Hetzner for 200 EUR/mo, with 48 cores and 128GB of RAM. For 4:1 virtual:physical oversubscription, you could run 192 guests on such a machine, yielding a cost of 200/192 = 1.04 EUR/mo, and giving each guest a bit over 1GiB of RAM. Interestingly, that's not groundbreakingly cheaper than just getting one of Hetzner's virtual machines!

[freakynit]

"Interestingly, that's not groundbreakingly cheaper than just getting one of Hetzner's virtual machines!" .... yea.. cause this is what these companies are doing behind the scenes :)

[csomar]

Cloudflare bills by CPU time. You'll come up on top if you have very irregular traffic as Hetzner bills you 24/7 for your instance.

[freakynit]

Exactly. The core-word is "occasional" usage.

As I calculated and mentioned before, if that occasional usage ends up being more than a day in total, dedicated instances end up cheaper.