New Pricing ROCKS! for Small apps
Brandon Wirtz
I’m not bi-polar, honest :-) Different apps at different sizes vary wildly under the new pricing, but I did find one of my apps that is going to be Cheaper, (by quite a lot actually)
37 cents a day reduced to 9. That’s a 75% reduction. A couple of caveats… Part of that is always on… Part of that is that this app is on Python 2.7 (which has reduced instances a ton) Most of my CPU hours come from API’s
$10 a month is pretty small, but $2.70 a month is even smaller. This app could run on Dream Host for $9.95 a month, but not as fast, or with the same level of up time. So this puts Appengine in the “competitive” category for this sized app.
Resource | Used | Free | Billable | Charge |
CPU Time: | 0.97 | 6.50 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Bandwidth Out: | 0.61 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Bandwidth In: | 0.40 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Stored Data: | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Recipients Emailed: | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
High Replication Storage: | 8.95 | 0.50 | 8.45 | $0.07 |
Backend Usage: | $0.00 | $0.72 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Always On: | Yes | - | - | $0.30 |
Total: | $0.37 | |||
Estimated Charges Under New Pricing
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Frontend Instance Hour costs reflect a 50% price reduction active until November 20th, 2011.
Resource | Used | Free | Billable | Charge |
Frontend Instance Hours: | 26.93 | 24.00 | 2.93 | $0.00 |
Backend Instance Hours: | 0.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Datastore Storage: | 8.95 | 1.00 | 7.95 | $0.07 |
Blobstore Storage: | 0.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Datastore Writes: | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.02 | $0.02 |
Datastore Reads: | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Small Datastore Operations: | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Bandwidth In: | 0.40 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Bandwidth Out: | 0.61 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Emails: | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
XMPP Stanzas: | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Opened Channels: | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | $0.00 |
Total*: (before clipping to daily budget) | $0.09 | |||
Gerald Tan
I understand that Google is doing this because it gets expensive incurring credit card charges per transaction for very small transactions. Which is why I'm suggesting that small apps should be able to pre-pay for credits (e.g. $5) in lieu of the minimum charge.
Gopal Patel
You're forgetting the $2.10 per week (~$9/month) minimum charge, which is actually annoying for small apps that only bill for a fraction of that, like mine where I am projecting spending about $0.80 per week but will be billed for $2.10 per week because of the minimum charge.
I understand that Google is doing this because it gets expensive incurring credit card charges per transaction for very small transactions. Which is why I'm suggesting that small apps should be able to pre-pay for credits (e.g. $5) in lieu of the minimum charge.
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Brandon Wirtz
Can’t make anyone happy… I find one app that says it will be cheaper after the new pricing and you still poo-poo it… I see how it is. :-)
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JH
as ad words doesn't pay until you are owed $100....
JH
.9/day = $9/month/minimum so not a huge savings...
I posted earlier that I agree the new pricing is not so bad... small
hobby apps however do take a hit with $9/minimum... it's feasible with
1 or 2 apps but if you have 5 or 10 project apps the minimums can add
up.
Bay
Brandon Wirtz
I don’t know why the count is 3, but my understanding is that 1 will get you two on python because they are half sized instances. I only have 1 always on set in the app.
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lets also keep in mind that your app will be slower and have more latency than before.
You had enabled 3 instances always on. If you aim for that under the new pricing regime you will pay a lot more than .09/day...
You might not be comparing apples and oranges. But you are comparing one apple with three apples - and pretending it is the same amount of apples.
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Robert Kluin
verifying things before posting responses on the groups, etc..., that
I need to evaluate now. Several have tiny little charges showing up
some days which will translate to $9/month. Kind of a bummer.
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Niklas Rosencrantz
Regards,
Niklas
