I was looking to get started with Convex
I was looking to get started with Convex to have realtime feeds on our app. I see in the pricing that the free plan says it includes "5,000,000 Monthly function calls". Does that mean 5,000,000 concurrent connections? I have not see it worded as monthly function calls so trying to see how many concurrent connections the plans offer.
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Hey Krista, by function calls we mean the number of times any of your Convex functions execute. In the case of realtime queries, there would be 1 function call per update, per connection. Convex is pretty clever and re-runs your realtime queries only when it needs to
There's no explicit limit on concurrent connections, are you expecting to have 5 million? (one of our backend engineers can confirm what scale we support for concurrent connections)
Ok I understand. Thank you. At the moment we are only using about 10 concurrent connections since our realtime feature is in beta but we expect it to scale pretty quickly. I don't think 5 million connections will happen for us any time soon but I really appreciate your response. I think Convex will work for us so I will recap this with our team before moving forward. Thank you!
Ok, awesome! We can help with the back-of-the-envelope math for how many function calls you can expect, but it depends on your use case/implementation. Have fun building and please do let us know if you have any more questions 🙂
aw thanks! will keep ya posted! 🙂