Billing Item

The VPC service is free of charge.

EIPs can be billed on a yearly/monthly or pay-per-use basis.

The EIP price varies according to the billing mode.

• "-" indicates that the fee will not be included in the bill. "√" indicates that the fee will be included in the bill.
• For details about the EIP pricing, see Product Pricing Details.

Billing Options

When you use an instance, such as an Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), both outbound bandwidth and inbound bandwidth are used. However, HUAWEI CLOUD only charges fees for outbound bandwidth usage.

The public network bandwidth can be billed by fixed bandwidth or by traffic usage.

• By fixed bandwidth: You will be billed based on the bandwidth you specify. During the usage, the actual outbound bandwidth will not exceed the specified bandwidth.
• By traffic usage: You will be billed based on a pay-per-use basis for actual traffic usage. To prevent excess charges due to sudden traffic spikes, you can set a peak value for the outbound bandwidth.
• You can select the billing mode based on bandwidth usage. If your required bandwidth is less than or equal to 5 Mbit/s, billing by fixed bandwidth monthly is more favorable than billing by traffic usage. If your required bandwidth is higher than 5 Mbit/s and the bandwidth usage is greater than 20%, billing by fixed bandwidth is more favorable.

Figure 1 EIP billing modes

Configuration Changes

• Modifying the bandwidth size has the following impacts on the price:

  Table 3 Impacts after change

  Current Billing Mode	Change Scenario	Impact After Successful Change
  Pay-per-use	Increase or decrease bandwidth size	The change will take effect immediately.
  Yearly/Monthly	Increase bandwidth	The increased bandwidth size will take effect immediately and the price difference will be billed accordingly. The following prices are for reference only. The actual prices are subject to Pricing Details. On November 1, 2018, a customer purchases a 1 Mbit/s bandwidth for one month. The price is 18.4 CNY per month. The customer pays for the bandwidth with the account balance of 18.4 CNY. On November 24, 2018, the customer increases the bandwidth to 5 Mbit/s, at a price of 92 CNY per month. In this case, the number of remaining days is 6 (30 - 24), and the price for the upgrade is 92/30 x 6 - 18.4/30 x 6 = 14.72 CNY. For more information, see Pricing of a Changed Specification.
  	Decrease bandwidth after renewal	The decreased bandwidth size will take effect in the first billing cycle after a successful renewal. A renewal cannot be canceled after the payment has been made. After a successful renewal in case of a decreased bandwidth size, the bandwidth cannot be modified in the first billing cycle.
  	Buy a bandwidth add-on package to temporarily increase the available bandwidth	A bandwidth add-on package is used to temporarily increase the yearly/monthly bandwidth. The validity period of the add-on package can be any number of days (full days only) that fall within the bandwidth subscription period. When the add-on package expires, the bandwidth will automatically default to its original specifications.

• Modifying the EIP billing modes has the following impacts on the price.
  Figure 2 Billing change
  

  Table 4 Flexible billing

  Current Billing Mode	Change	Impact After Successful Change
  Pay-per-use	Changing the billing option between by traffic and by bandwidth	The change will take effect immediately.
  	Changing the billing mode to yearly/monthly	You can change the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly on the EIP console or in the billing center. After the change is successful, the new billing mode will take effect immediately. An EIP that is billed by traffic on a pay-per-use basis cannot be changed to an EIP that is billed by traffic on a yearly/monthly basis. You must first change the EIP to be billed by bandwidth and then change its billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  Yearly/Monthly	Changing the billing mode to pay-per-use	You can change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use in the billing center. The new billing mode takes effect only after the yearly/monthly mode expires. An EIP billed by bandwidth on a yearly/monthly basis can only be changed to an EIP billed by bandwidth on a pay-per-use basis. After you change the billing mode, you can configure the EIP to be billed by traffic.

Renewal

You can renew your resources on the Renewals page of the management console. For more details, see Renewal Management.

Expiration and Overdue Payment

If your account is in arrears, you can view the arrears details in the Billing Center. To prevent related resources from being stopped or released, you need to top up your account within the specified period. For details, see Repaying Arrears.