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## What it costs

$0.01/GB, per byte delivered. No commitment, no egress tier, no minimum. That runs 7–20× below the major traditional CDNs.
$0.01/GB, per byte delivered. No commitment, no egress tier, no minimum. That runs 4–20× below the major traditional CDNs.

**A spike costs exactly what it moves.** You rent no headroom through the quiet months and hit no overage cliff in the loud hour. For the operators serving it, a spike is not a cost centre at all. It is [the best revenue day of the quarter](/blog/show-me-the-money/), and it lands on whoever cached the right object first.

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