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Billing

Billing Items

Table 1 VPN billing items

Billing Option

Item 1

Item 2

Billing Formula

Yearly/Monthly

Bandwidth

VPN

Total price = Bandwidth price + VPN price

Billed by bandwidth

VPN gateway bandwidth

VPN connection

Total price = VPN gateway bandwidth price + VPN connection price

Billed by traffic

Public network traffic

VPN connection

Total price = Public network traffic price + VPN connection price

For details, see Product Pricing Details.

Billing Modes

Yearly/Monthly
  • Only billing by bandwidth is supported. If you create a yearly/monthly VPN gateway, the price of the VPN gateway includes the price of the VPN connections created for the gateway and the price of the bandwidth. The VPN connections created later will not be billed during the validity period. You will enjoy more discounts if you select the yearly/monthly billing mode.
  • Total price = Bandwidth price + VPN price

    A VPN gateway bandwidth will be shared by all the VPN connections created for the VPN gateway. Evaluate the required bandwidth based on the amount of data transmitted over all the VPN connections.

Pay-per-Use
  • Billed by bandwidth

    If you select billing by bandwidth, the billing cycle is one hour. The generated fee also varies depending on the bandwidth size. The total price includes a VPN gateway bandwidth price and the price of the VPN connection created together with the gateway. If you create another connection for the gateway, you will be charged only for the additional connection.

    Total price = VPN gateway bandwidth price + VPN connection price

    The bandwidth you purchased for a VPN gateway is outbound bandwidth, that is, the bandwidth from a VPC to your on-premises data center.

    • If the outbound bandwidth is 10 Mbit/s or less, the inbound bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbit/s.
    • If the outbound bandwidth is more than 10 Mbit/s, the inbound bandwidth is the same as the outbound bandwidth.

    For example, if the bandwidth you purchased is 50 Mbit/s, you use the VPN gateway for 5 hours and then delete it, you will be charged for 5 hours based on the 50 Mbit/s bandwidth. Even if you do not transmit any data during those five hours, you will still be charged for the bandwidth of 50 Mbit/s.

  • Billed by traffic

    If you select billing by traffic, the traffic for each hour will be recorded, and the billing unit is 1 GB. If less than 1 GB is used, the price varies (Total price = Used traffic/1 GB x Price of 1 GB traffic). In this case, modifying the bandwidth size does not change the public network traffic price per GB. Only traffic in the outbound direction is billed.

    Total price = Public network traffic price + VPN connection price

Changing Billing Options

You can change the billing options of a VPN gateway as follows:

  • Change the billing mode of a VPN gateway billed by bandwidth from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  • Change a pay-per-use VPN gateway from being billed by bandwidth to be billed by traffic or the other way around.
  • Change the billing mode of a VPN gateway billed by traffic from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  • To change the billing mode of a VPN gateway billed by traffic from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, first change the VPN gateway from being billed by traffic to being billed by bandwidth and then from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  • The billing mode of a VPN gateway cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use and the VPN gateway bandwidth included in the yearly/monthly subscription cannot be decreased.

Changing the Billing Mode of a VPN Gateway Billed by Bandwidth from Pay-per-use to Yearly/Monthly

  • Prerequisites
    • The pay-per-use VPN gateway is billed by bandwidth.
    • The number of created VPN connections is less than 10.
    • The account has at least 10 remaining quotas for creating VPN connections.
  • Procedure
    1. Log in to the management console.
    2. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
    3. Click Service List in the upper left corner. Under Networking, select Virtual Private Network.
    4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Virtual Private Network > VPN Gateways.
    5. On the VPN Gateways page, locate the row that contains the target VPN gateway, choose More > Change Billing Mode in the Operation column.
    6. In the displayed Change Billing Mode dialog box, click OK.
    • In the yearly/monthly billing mode, the value of Required VPN Connections is the total number of VPN connections that can be created for the VPN gateway.
    • If you change the billing mode of a VPN gateway from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, the number of VPN connections that can be created for the VPN gateway is 10 after the change by default.
    1. In the displayed Change Billing Mode dialog box, confirm the information about the VPN gateway and configure Renewal Duration.
    2. Click Pay.
    3. On the payment page, confirm the order information, select coupon or discount, and select the payment method.
    4. Click Pay.

    Changing the VPN gateway billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly does not affect your service running.

Changing a Pay-per-use VPN Gateway from Being Billed by Bandwidth to Being Billed by Traffic/Changing the Billing Mode of a VPN Gateway Billed by Traffic from Pay-per-use to Yearly/Monthly

  1. On the VPN Gateways page, locate the row that contains the target VPN gateway.
  2. Choose More > Modify Bandwidth in the Operation column.
  3. On the Modify Bandwidth page, set Billed By to Bandwidth in the Modify Specifications area.
  4. Click Submit.
  5. On the VPN Gateways page, locate the row that contains the target VPN gateway.
  6. Choose More > Change Billing Mode in the Operation column.
  7. Click OK.
  8. On the displayed page, confirm the information about the VPN gateway, configure Renewal Duration, and click Pay.
  9. On the payment page, confirm the order information, select coupon or discount, select the payment method, and click Pay.

Renewal

For details, see Renewal Management.

Expiration and Overdue Payment

For details, see Repaying Arrears.

For more information about pricing details, see Billing and Payments.