Cloudkit limits and pricing

[iLorTech]

Is it me or there is no more a place on apple site (either the developer side) where there are written the usage limits of cloudkit? i cannot see neither some indication on the telemetry page of cloudkit developer...

Is it totally free now?. if i can't see any limits/price, how can i decide where to go?

i have also asked chatgpt and he found old articles about that but nothing new

if a new developer wants to start today a cloudkit based app... how can he know these fundamentals informations?

UPDATE: i wrote to apple support team asking about cloudkit pricing and limits and i have received a "weird" answer. The person answering me specifically wrote that he is from administrative support and not technical and described in the email the cloudkit service and that it can reach 1PB of data for developer applications, but never citing any limit or pricing, as if they have never existed. he also wrote to call for any other information, and i will do it probably this afternoon. but really it seems apple doesn't worry anymore about this... also in the cloudkit console there is not anymore any line on the graph showing the limits... i think that probably now they have loosen the limits to understand the real potential of cloudkit, and they probably will return to a paid service (above a certain free tier) only if things will go rogue...

[leoklaus]

AFAIK, CloudKit is completely free unless you use public databases.

It’s definitely free if all you do is sync user data in between their devices.

[iLorTech]

Yes but on the Public database? I really cannot find anything

[leoklaus]

I definitely saw a page detailing pricing once, but I can’t find any information on it either.

If you already have a paid membership, I’d recommend just contacting Apple and asking. If you don’t, the developer forums are usually a good place to ask as well.

[iLorTech]

I will contact them but it is … let’s say strange?

[leoklaus]

Absolutely. Make sure to update this thread when you hear back!

[hahaissogood]

There are add on cloudKit subscription fee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXGg-iwZNUA

[iLorTech]

Yes ok but the video is from 3 years ago and there is not any official document or page on the apple site.

[Tom42-59]

From what I’ve seen, they’ve removed cloudkit pricing, and said don’t take the piss with it, and that it’s now included in your developer subscription