For as long as we’ve offered Machines in multiple regions, we’ve had a flat price. If you gave us $0.00000075, we’d run you a shared-1x-256mb Ma

[Fresh Produce] Region-specific Machines pricing

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2024-07-04 07:30:07

For as long as we’ve offered Machines in multiple regions, we’ve had a flat price. If you gave us $0.00000075, we’d run you a shared-1x-256mb Machine for one second in São Paolo, London, Tokyo, you name it.

When we launched Machines, we opted for one consistent price across all regions. This was mostly due to billing system constraints (our billing system has been hot garbage for most of the life of the company).

The underlying infrastructure costs vary wildly between regions, though. Taxes, energy cost, suspicious “fees” to get servers through customs. All kinds of weirdo variables. Did you know it costs us twice as much to rack a server in São Paulo?

When we were starting out, it made sense to normalize pricing across all our regions. But at the scale we’re at now, it doesn’t. We’d rather be transparent and give you control about where to place workloads than raise prices everywhere to account for colo costs in Mumbai.

We’re going to ease y’all into this over the next four months. Your July invoice will have per region line items, but no pricing changes.