hello! I have a question re: cloud pricing. one of the suggested solutions for sensor-type workflows is to have a task that raises a pause or retry signal (eg. as described at https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/discussions/4156), and only progress to success when the task finds an appropriate file/event/whatever. am I right thinking that these retry+pause runs would not count as success for pricing purposes? So I’d only be paying when the polling task actually finds work to do?

You are right that only successful tasks are billed. Just don’t abuse it haha 😆

thanks! hopefully not planning anything crazy… just been evaluating Prefect vs some other tools and trying to estimate cost. I have some crons that would be candidates to transfer over, but they poll for new work every few minutes and in practice only find something a couple times per day. If I were to copy them into Prefect 1:1 I think there’d be a big difference between number of task runs vs actual work done

So in Prefect, our paradigm is that instead of polling, the event that happens can hit our GraphQL API and trigger a Flow

yeah, I think I’d want some combination of both depending on the exact use-case

Makes sense 👍

btw what’s the best way to schedule a call - fill out the contact form on the site? want to figure out whether this is a viable choice for us and we have a couple questions on pricing, enterprise, existing customers etc.

Yeah or you can email

<mailto:sales@prefect.io|sales@prefect.io>

nice - thanks!