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Each Load Balancer is billed a flat monthly fee that includes a generous request allowance, with a per-million rate for requests beyond it.

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What counts as a request

Only requests that actually reach the Load Balancer are counted: cache misses and other requests that require an origin. Requests served from the CDN cache are not counted, so a well-cached zone typically sends only a small fraction of its total traffic through the Load Balancer.

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How billing works

  • Billing is per Load Balancer. Attaching one Load Balancer to five Pull Zones incurs a single monthly fee, and requests from all attached zones share the same 50 million request allowance.
  • The monthly fee is prorated. You only pay for the time a Load Balancer exists: creating one mid-month charges the remainder of the month, and deleting one stops the charge immediately.
  • The request allowance resets monthly. Usage counts from the first of each calendar month (UTC), and every month starts with a fresh 50 million included requests. The allowance is per calendar month and unused requests do not roll over.
  • Overage is exact. Additional requests are billed at $0.65 per million, prorated to the actual request count rather than rounded up to whole millions.
For example, a Load Balancer that handles 62 million origin requests in a full month costs $9.50 plus 12 million additional requests at $0.65 per million, or $17.30 in total.
The monthly fee applies from the moment a Load Balancer is created, even before it is attached to a Pull Zone. Delete Load Balancers you no longer use.

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Tracking usage

Month-to-date request usage against the included allowance is available per Load Balancer in the dashboard and through the usage API, including the exact time the allowance resets. See Statistics for the full monitoring options.
Last modified on August 16, 2026