Cloudflare Images - Overpaying?
I'm using Cloudflare to resize images, but I'm seeing high usage, ~20k resizes per day. This seems like a lot, and I;m wondering if I'm overpaying ($100+ per month for images alone)
Shouldn't images be resized just once, then cached indefinitely?
I'm also unsure about the "Cloudflare Images" pricing page, there's 3 plans, $5, $10 & $50/mo, I'm on the $5/mo plan, but then paying $100+ for resizes. The $10/mo plan mentions "500,000 images" does it mean resizes? or just image requests?
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Are you using Cloudflare Images or Cloudflare Image Resizing? At the moment these are still separate products, Images will store the images and can also serve them in any size or format, while Image Resizing will resize images from your own origin.
And the answer to the question is different depending which one is in use
i store the images on my server, resize them with CF on the fly like this:
https://img.shoprocket.io/cdn-cgi/image/fit=cover,f=auto,q=85,w=600,h=750/6311c71cc35ac247289836-stephanie-harvey-n9lmtlouadm-unsplash.jpg
i've just spotted that images had an expires header of 24 hours 🤦♂️
which is no doubt why my bill was so high
i've increased this to 1 year now
hopefully that will reduce the usage
Ah so you're using Image Resizing
Which means you don't need a paid subscription to Cloudflare Images since that's for if you want to store images on Cloudflare
And the included number of images is the amount you can store
thanks, that's good to know! I'll remove that plan as im not using it
hi again
so after adding correct caching, I note 2 things:
1. im still seeing 20k resizes per day
2. i also found a blog on CF that says the pricing has changed, and is now charged per UNIQUE resize. so, i think there's a problem here. because I'm paying for 20k daily unique resizes? i dont believe thats possible, is there any logging anywhere so i can see where these requests are coming from? or what images are being resized?
@Erisa | Support Engineer 🙏
2. was actually released today you can enable the new pricing here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/images/delivery-zones
I saw, thanks! Still not sure about the billing though, my usage page still shows transformations and image requests, am I only billed for the unique transformations now? Because that’s 99.9% less than before 😅
Yeah this is the unique transformations billing model
thats the modal when you subscribe to the updated model
Because that’s 99.9% less than beforeThat's the idea 🙏