How does committed discount work with legacy hobby plan's free allowance?

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I am in the middle of calculating the cost to host my app and db on fly.

i played around with the calculator and got annual 36 dollars for the reservation, plus
3.18 monthly for a tiny machine. since i am in legacy hobby plan, does that mean the 3.18 (or the majority of it) would be within my monthly free allowance?

also, if my monthly goes over the 5 dollar limit, do i start paying the difference? or the full amount?
for example if my monthly in calculator is 8 dollars, do i start paying 3 dollars or the full 8 dollars?

Thanks!

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It’s the full 8 dollars.

(Also, the $5 waiver isn’t really official, so it may disappear at any moment. I wouldn’t make any plans around it, basically.)

If it’s eligible now, then it would continue to be.

The free allowance, unlike the $5 waiver, is basically a set of earmarked credits. They’ll get subtracted off before your reservation is deducted.

(I use the closely related pre-paid credits.)

You can see your existing free-allowance credits being consumed by looking on the dashboard, under Billing > Active Credits > Show Breakdown.

Hope this helps!

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thanks for the clarification!

i thought the $5 allowance is official for legacy hobby plan users, and only unofficial for new plans?

The free allowance, unlike the $5 waiver, is basically a set of earmarked credits. They’ll get subtracted off before your reservation is deducted.

so if my understanding is correct, since im in legacy hobby plan, if my usage costs 6 dollars, i should just pay 1 dollar? assuming mine is the free allowance not the waiver? sorry for the confusion..

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No worries… It’s confusing because currently both the official and the unofficial mechanisms apply to the Legacy Hobby Plan (simultaneously)…

“Free allowance” is the official, documented one (at the link above), and “$5 waiver” is the unofficial leniency. You’re getting both at present.

The Legacy Hobby Plan doesn’t have a specific $5 figure associated with it; instead there are special-purpose credits for small things like shared-cpu-1x 256MB Machines ($6) and volume storage ($0.50).

For example, if this month you end up having $3 worth of shared-cpu-1x 256MB Machines, $0.75 worth of volumes, and $7 worth of performance Machines (those add up quickly!), then this is how it would work out…

$3 is less than the $6 credit for tiny Machines (that specific kind), so that’s zeroed out.

$0.75 is more than the $0.50 credit for volumes, so it contributes the remainder, $0.25, to the invoice.

The $7 dollars doesn’t have any Legacy Hobby Plan credit that pertains to it, so the full $7 dollars goes into the total.

That leaves $7.25 due that month. Since this is more than the $5 waiver, you pay the full $7.25.

However, if the usage of performance Machines had instead been only $4, then there would have been $4.25 due, and hence the whole thing would have been waived…

(Newer users only get this second part.)

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Ah! that makes so much sense now, thank you!

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