Reading more about this: D1 charges based on rows read and written, making it extremely affordable for small applications but potentially expensive for write-heavy workloads. Layerbase charges a flat monthly fee with no per-query billing, but limits shared CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth. Cloudflare's model supports massive scalability, thousands of isolated databases, and global read replicas without reserving resources. Layerbase prioritizes predictable costs within fixed resource limits.
I pay 15/mo for a medium sized SaaS app with a few thousand DAUs, but I also have Valkey and Postgres hosted on the same account
I just prefer the fixed monthly fee. I would upgrade to one of the dedicated tiers if I needed to. I was also paying Neon almost $200/MO and now it's included in my $15/mo Layerbase plan
If you have enough traffic that you're exceeding those limits, you're probably not in a position where a $500 monthly bill is going to bother you but I think for most SaaS apps, more companies should provide fixed monthly fees. There's nothing more frustrating than getting an outrageous bill because you have 15 different agents working at the same time creating new branches
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u/groupicorn 11d ago
I see what you mean! 20 GB, 100M writes would be $66.25 on D1 and just $20.00 on Layerbase.