Rate Limiting Billing & Analytics

[superkot]

Hi,
I am really confuse about the Rate Limiting option which I use.
The support article https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000272247-Billing-for-Cloudflare-Rate-Limiting says, that only requests that are made before breaching the rule, are billed. If someone makes 1000 requests, and after request #100 gets blocked, only these 100 requests of 1000 count as billable.

However, in my Analytics I have this →
It can be clearly seen, that most of the requests are blocked ones, “the unbroken line” is the same as “the dotted line”, therefore should not be billable.

Yet, according to what the Billable tab shows, all of the requests are billable.

[eva2000]

you mis-read, you’re billed for good requests Cloudflare IP Firewall Limitations? - #11 by Martijn

@eva2000

example if 25,000 unique ips make only 1 request/s per unique ip to a matching rate limit rule url = 25,000 requests/s over 1hr = 90 million requests/hr and if rate limit was even 10 requests/s per unique ip, all 90 million allowed requests would be billable as far as i understand it so that could cost US$450 as per https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000272247-Billing-for-Cloudflare-Rate-Limiting

@Martijn

You are right that the article is contradicting. This is correct:

Rate Limiting is billed based on the number of good (not blocked) requests that match your defined rules across all your websites.

I have updated the article to indicate that blocked requests are not billed, thank you for pointing that out!