Atlas Flex Pricing and Flex-vs-Dedicated Break-Even

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Atlas Flex is a usage-banded Atlas cluster tier billed hourly on operations per second: an $8 base for 100 ops/sec and 5 GB of storage, rising in $7, $6, $5 and $4 steps to 500 ops/sec and capped at $30 per month, which replaced the retired M2/M5 shared tiers and Serverless instances. At list price Flex is cheaper than the cheapest Dedicated tier (M10, $0.08/hr, "starts at $56.94/month" on the pricing page and "$60" in the Flex costs doc) at every load it can serve, so the move to Dedicated is driven by limits (5 GB storage, a 500 ops/sec hard limit with per-connection cooldown) and unsupported features rather than cost. The pack draws on 6 sources (MongoDB docs, pricing page, a MongoDB blog post, a MongoDB support FAQ and one third-party blog) and covers definitions, parameters, mechanism, how-to, examples, measures, problems, comparisons and history, with 3 flagged disagreements.

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