{
  "title": "Their shop costs ₹0 a month. A finished feature stays off to keep it that way.",
  "url": "https://cybiqon.in/lab/their-shop-costs-zero-a-month-to-run",
  "author": "Prajjwal Pathak",
  "published": "2026-09-08",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "citation": "Prajjwal Pathak, “Their shop costs ₹0 a month. A finished feature stays off to keep it that way.”, Cybiqon Lab, 2026-09-08. https://cybiqon.in/lab/their-shop-costs-zero-a-month-to-run",
  "tables": [
    {
      "id": "the-free-tier-is-a-shape-not-a-discount",
      "section": "The free tier is a shape, not a discount",
      "csv": "https://cybiqon.in/data/lab/their-shop-costs-zero-a-month-to-run/the-free-tier-is-a-shape-not-a-discount.csv",
      "columns": [
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        "What it does here",
        "Free allowance"
      ],
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          "Workers Static Assets",
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        ],
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          "the API and the admin logic",
          "100,000 requests/day, 10 ms CPU each"
        ],
        [
          "D1",
          "products, orders, customers, content",
          "5 M rows read/day · 100 k written/day · 5 GB"
        ],
        [
          "R2",
          "product photography",
          "10 GB · 1 M Class A · 10 M Class B · zero egress"
        ],
        [
          "Image Transformations",
          "resizing and format negotiation",
          "5,000 unique transformations/month"
        ],
        [
          "Access",
          "the admin login",
          "50 users"
        ],
        [
          "Cron Triggers",
          "nightly aggregates and backup",
          "5 per account"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ]
}