What does the 20 cron job per day limit mean in Google App engine?

[Shivang]

I came across the cron job limit in GAE which 20 per day for free & 250 per day for paid use. I am not sure what this means.

If I want to run a cron every 2 min to repopulate my cache, that count is definitely going to be much beyond even the 250 limit.

Am I understanding this correct?

[Attila-Mihaly Balazs]

I believe that means the number of entries in cron.yaml, but would like to hear it from an official source. I do have an app in production which has something cron-ed every 1 minute, and while it has billing enabled, it doesn't cost me anything.

[Shivang]

Thanks for the reply Attila, even I thought so but the term per day confused me. It's not like we change the cron configuration every day in our files.

[Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)]

To clarify this is a limit on the total amount of created Cron jobs for a project. This is not a daily quota, and I have requested the documentation team to correct the wording.