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The conservative reading is that only the 100,000 daily function requests is a published, unambiguous number, and the traffic term needs a live bill to settle. Candidates: (a) the Entrance plan is a time-limited promotion; refuted by 'permanently free' on the guide and 'always free' in the developer-drive page. (b) Entrance includes Chinese mainland acceleration; refuted, the developer-drive page says the free plan does not include mainland acceleration by default. 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