Dev breaks down $253 bill: 56 scaling sessions, one full test run only cost $4.50
gdechichi · x · 2026-10-27
Clarifying earlier confusion over a $253 bill, the author explains it wasn't from a single server run: a full test suite run at 50k scale costs about $4.50 and takes 15 minutes. The bill came from around 56 sessions at different scaling numbers, aimed at pushing the netcode layer as far as possible.
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