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description: Cloudflare Pipelines usage is now billed on non-enterprise accounts. Pipelines usage beyond the included free tier will appear on your next invoice.
title: Billing is now enabled for Pipelines
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August 3, 2026

## Billing is now enabled for Pipelines

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Billing is now enabled for [Cloudflare Pipelines](https://developers.cloudflare.com/basin-pipelines/) on non-enterprise accounts. Pipelines usage beyond the included free tier will appear on your next invoice.

Pipelines charges based on two usage dimensions. Ingress into a Pipeline stream remains free regardless of volume:

- **SQL transforms**: $0.04 / GB for stateless transforms (filter, reshape, unnest, cast, compute).
- **Sinks (egress)**: $0.03 / GB for JSON output, $0.06 / GB for Parquet or Iceberg output.

Workers Paid plans include 50 GB / month for both SQL transforms and sinks. Standard [R2 storage and operations](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/) charges apply for data written to R2 buckets, and [R2 Data Catalog](https://developers.cloudflare.com/basin-catalog/platform/pricing/) charges apply when writing to Iceberg tables.

For example, a pipeline that ingests 500 GB of event data per month, uses a SQL transform to filter and reshape it, and writes 300 GB to an R2 Data Catalog Iceberg table would be billed as follows:

| Dimension | Usage | Included | Billable | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Streams | 500 GB | Unlimited | 0 GB | $0.00 |
| SQL transforms | 500 GB | 50 GB | 450 GB | $18.00 |
| Sinks (Iceberg) | 300 GB | 50 GB | 250 GB | $15.00 |
| **Total** |  |  |  | **$33.00** |

For full pricing details and billing examples, refer to [Pipelines pricing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/basin-pipelines/platform/pricing/).

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