# Cloudflare opens Traces beta and switches to volume‑based pricing

> Cloudflare’s Traces feature is now in open beta, turning proxy actions into OpenTelemetry spans, with pricing moving to data‑ingestion rates from Dec 1 2026.

Oossa · 2026-10-10 · https://oossa.com/en/cloudflare-opens-traces-beta-and-switches-to-volume-based-pricing

Cloudflare has launched Traces in open beta. The service automatically records every step of a request—security rules, cache decisions, routing, Workers, and origin handling—as OpenTelemetry spans, without any code changes. It also supports W3C traceparent headers so traces can join upstream systems. Pricing changes on Dec 1 2026: spans are no longer billed individually; instead customers pay for data ingested and stored.

## The facts

- Open beta for Traces is available now (Oct 10 2026).
- From Dec 1 2026 pricing is $0.25 per GB ingested and $0.10 per GB‑month stored; free plan gives 0.5 GB/day.

## Why it matters

Developers can see detailed timing of Cloudflare’s proxy actions in one trace and predict costs based on data volume.

## Sources & references

1. [Cloudflare Traces Turns the Proxy Layer into OpenTelemetry Spans, with New Volume-Based Pricing](https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-traces-open-beta/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=AI%2C+ML+%26+Data+Engineering) – InfoQ, 2026-10-10

Last updated: 2026-10-10