Re:The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API ...
by jsheard on Monday April 14, 2025 @08:17PM
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> Is there even a way to tell Vercel: "I only want to spend $10 a month max on this project, CUT ME OFF if I go past it."?
Yes actually, there's a lot to complain about with Vercel but to their credit they do offer both soft and hard spending limits, unlike most other newfangled clouds.
OTOH god help you if you're on Netlify, there you're looking at $0.55/GB with unbounded billing...
Re:The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API ...
by leerob on Monday April 14, 2025 @08:24PM
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> Is there even a way to tell Vercel: "I only want to spend $10 a month max on this project, CUT ME OFF if I go past it."? This is crazy.
(I work at Vercel). Yes, there are soft and hard spend limits. OP was using this feature, it's called "spend management": https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management
Re:The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API ...
by ilyabez on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:50AM
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Hi, I'm the author of the blog (though I didn't post it on HN).
We sure do, though we were initially confused by the wording. We thought "stop deployment" meant that we wouldn't be able to deploy. So, we had it turned off initially.
@leerob helped us figure it out on the Vercel subreddit, then we turned it on.
It's crazy how these companies are really fleecing their customers who don't know any better. Is there even a way to tell Vercel: "I only want to spend $10 a month max on this project, CUT ME OFF if I go past it."? This is crazy.
I spend $12 a month on BunnyCDN. And $9 a month on BunnyCDN's image optimizer that allows me to add HTTP params to the url to modify images.
1.33TB of CDN traffic. (ps: can't say enough good things about bunnycdn, such a cool company, does exactly what you pay for nothing more nothing less)
This is nuts dude