It's not expensive. It's very cheap compared to others such as Google. Google's same service is much more expensive because it will install the pre-dependencies and takes a longer time to activate. Codespaces has a much better alerting system than Google's. It will give you a mailing alert on your GitHub and email when you have used your budget around 70% or 50%. You can set it and it will automatically give you updates.
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It's not expensive. It's very cheap compared to others such as Google. Google's same service is much more expensive because it will install the pre-dependencies and takes a longer time to activate. Codespaces has a much better alerting system than Google's. It will give you a mailing alert on your GitHub and email when you have used your budget around 70% or 50%. You can set it and it will automatically give you updates.
Using Codespaces for a single station is cost-effective. However, I am not well-versed in the broader licensing considerations.
From what I've seen, the solution doesn't seem like it's overly expensive for what you get.
I am using the product’s free version.