Heroku Dyno... Running Schedule tasks without a Worker

Question

I have recently added "Heroku Scheduler" addon to my heroku app...

I currently have a free heroku account and have the standard one web dyno....

Now I have set up a scheduled comment to run with scheduler... What will happen if I keep having 0 Worker dynos....

Do I get charged? Does my task just not run? Or does it fall back to the web dyno and gets queued on that one?

Answer 1

Your scheduled task with scheduler will run when you tell it to. It is similar to a worker process, however it runs then stops running once its finish instead of continually being billed. You are billed for the time it runs, but only that time. If your task is a short task running for 1 minute, on an hourly basis then you'd be billed at 24 minutes a day.