Introducing Data Transfer Limits on Replit: What You Need to Know

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Starting April 7th, Replit is enforcing limits on the amount of outbound data that developers can transmit from their Repls to users and external services. Free tier developers receive 10 GiB, Hacker developers 50 GiB, and Pro developers 100 GiB. If you need more, you can purchase additional outbound data transfer at $0.10/GiB.

Our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online, and we offer free cloud compute to make development accessible to everyone. Unfortunately, this also means dealing with abuse, such as proxies, file streaming services, cryptomining, and brute-force attacks, which degrade the experience for all. By enforcing system-wide limits, we can focus on providing a more powerful experience for our users.

If you’re concerned about reaching your monthly data transfer limit, here are some ways to optimize your Repls:

  • WebSockets: Decrease the frequency of pings or move to an event-driven system.
  • Pingers: Decrease the frequency of the ping or make the payload smaller.
  • File-sharing: Consider dedicated solutions for serving video content.
  • Proxies: Delete Repls that serve as proxies against our Terms of Service.

The outbound data transfer limits we’re introducing should not get in your way, but if you’re unsure how to optimize your Repls, please feel free to comment below. We’re happy to help problem solve and make sure that you’re unblocked to do your best work on Replit.

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Does this apply to individual Repl’s or account-wide?(I feel like its repl based, but might as well make sure)

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Oh god at least its cheap. This mights destroy replit, but its cheap.

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Is there a way of measuring how much outbound data you are currently using?

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Yes. Go to https://replit.com/account and look at how much EGRESS you are using

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Do repls just stop sending out info once you reach the limit? Will there be an email dispatched to you?

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You may have just made my day. Before it was 1GiB free, 10GiB hacker. Egress might not be so bad now.

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No its account wide not per repl.

My guess is that it would stop and email you when you are getting close but I do not know

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Will you be able to buy more with cycles? And if yes how many cycles for every 1Gib of egress

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One nore thing. Eaxactly what email will be used if there are any notifications about EGRESS? I would like for it to be specificaly marked on my side so that I know. Thanks

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The email on your account. And if you use SSO (google, github login etc) the email of that account would be used

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It states that you have to you actual money, mr. Grim Cyclemaster. 0.10$ a GiB

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What email will replit use to send it to you?

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Im blinder than I thought

What do you mean? I answered your question in the reply you replied to

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When replit sends a news letter they use a specific email ex: conner@mail.replit.com. If for example they where sending that I ran out of EGRESS then they probably wouldn’t use the same email. If so what would the other email be so that I can set up a system that notifies me.

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My guess is it won’t be any Replit staff email but rather a more generic Replit email address. If you get one you’ll know.

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So is this just for videos? I have used Replit to share images (although that took up too much of my 1GiB egress so I stopped) and I currently have a Repl that takes text file contents and hosts them to the web. That’s not going to be against ToS is it? I guess I’d just like a little more detail.

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Yes, you’ll get on-platform and email notifications when you are approaching and when you have reached the limit.

You can expect the email notifications to come from notifications@replit.com.

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You can’t purchase with cycles yet, but we’re actively working on it and are hoping to release it soon.

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If you don’t use all the extra data you pay for one month, does that money go towards the next month?

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