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MIT licensed · open source

This software is free.

TideGuard costs $0. You do not pay us. The number below is Cloudflare infrastructure for running the waiting room on Workers and Durable Objects, billed on your Cloudflare account like any other Worker.

How big is the crowd?

Pick a venue-scale example, or drag the sliders. Visitor count is how many people enter the waiting room for one event, not how many you admit per second.

18,000

Unique visitors who join the queue during the surge. A stadium analogy helps size it; a ticket drop can be far larger than the seats.

2 hr

Typical time each person spends waiting before admission. This drives how many status polls and heartbeats that person generates.

Polling & heartbeat (advanced)

While waiting, the browser checks queue position and sends heartbeats so silent clients drop out. Tighter intervals feel snappier and cost more.

15 s

How often each waiting browser asks “where am I in line?”

30 s

How often a waiting client proves it is still here. Miss enough heartbeats and they leave the queue.

Longer queues does not cost more?

Cloudflare infrastructure estimate

Estimated Cloudflare cost

$7.88

One-event Cloudflare bill on your account (not per hour, not a TideGuard fee). Hover a line for what it means.

TideGuard license: $0

Infrastructure

How much Cloudflare capacity this surge uses.

Cost

What that usage means in dollars on your account.

Ballpark for one surge, not an hourly rate. Heartbeats and polls scale with people × average wait. Based on published Workers Paid + Durable Objects rates. Real invoices vary with caching, retries, multiple queues, and unused included usage. Excludes your origin servers and SQLite storage overages.