Rate-limiting billing question

[matteosistisette]

Let’s say that I enable a rate-limiting rule with “*” as the URL, that is, rate-limit everything.

My domain gets about 500 Million requests per month, as counted by CF. That is, those are the requests that hit CF, meaning they include cached image/css/js files.

The number of requests that actually reach my server are about 9 Million.

Assuming I get no attack and all the requests get through, do I get billed for 9M or 500M requests?

[sdayman]

Already answered (I found this through the Search that’s available to all users):

Rate Limiting Billing and Cached Resources

Reading through the documentation, it looks like cached hits are never rate limited. Does this mean that only non-cached “rate limited” requests will be billed? support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/235240767 Cached resources are never rate-limited, even if they match a rule. For example, I see about 30k un-cached hits per day and about 500k cached hits per day. Will I be charged for 30k or 530k hits assuming they are all valid traffic.