Bills

Bill Generation

Transaction records for yearly/monthly subscriptions are generated immediately after being paid for.

A pay-per-use resource is billed by the hour, day, or month, depending on the resource's usage type. . The CCE resource usage is billed by the hour.

You are not charged immediately after a record is generated. For example, if a pay-per-use ECS (which is billed on an hourly basis) is deleted at 08:30, you will still have expenditures for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour, but you will not be billed for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour until about 10:00. On the Bills page of the Billing Center, select the Bill Details tab. Expenditure Time in the bill indicates the time when the pay-per-use resource is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

This section uses a CCE cluster as an example to describe how to view the bill of a specified resource.

1. Log in to the CCE console and click the cluster name to access the cluster console.
2. On the cluster details page, copy the cluster ID.
   Figure 1 Obtaining the cluster ID
   

3. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.

   The Billing page is displayed.

4. On the Bill Details tab, select Resource ID as the filter condition, enter the obtained resource ID, and click the icon.
   Figure 2 Searching for a bill
   

   In this example, the bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can also select other statistical dimensions or periods.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Assume that you purchased a pay-per-use cluster with 50 worker nodes and multiple master nodes at 10:09:06 on April 08, 2023 and deleted it at 12:09:06 on April 08, 2023.

• Transaction Records

  Pay-per-use CCE clusters are calculated by the second but billed every hour. You can check the transaction records against the actual usage. For details, see Table 1.

  Table 1 Cluster transaction records

  Service Type	Cloud Container Engine (CCE)
  Resource Type	CCE
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-Use
  Expenditure Time	For the period of time from 10:09:06 to 12:09:06, three transaction records would be generated for the resource usage in the following periods: 2023/04/08 10:09:06 - 2023/04/08 11:00:00 2023/04/08 11:00:00 - 2023/04/08 12:00:00 2023/04/08 12:00:00 - 2023/04/08 12:09:06
  List Price	List price on the official website = Unit price of the cluster flavor x Required duration In this example, the cluster was used for 3,054 seconds in the first period. If the unit price is $0.42 USD/hour, the list price is calculated as follows: 0.42 x (3054/3600) = $0.3563 USD. Similarly, you can calculate the list price for the other periods. For details, see CCE Pricing Details.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Truncated Amount	Huawei Cloud billing is calculated to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place. The third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amounts. Take the first period as an example. The truncated amount is $0.0063 USD.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount Take the first period as an example. If the discount amount is 0, the amount due is $0.35 USD (0.3563 – 0 – 0.0063).

• CCE bill details

  Bill details can display in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. Table 2 illustrates the CCE bill details, which can be used to check against the actual usage.

  Table 2 Cluster bill details

  Service Type	Cloud Container Engine (CCE)
  Resource Type	CCE
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Resource Name/ID	Specific cluster name and ID. Example: cce-test, 4cdeb1cd-7071-4890-9ce4-e6c2299e960e
  Specifications	Cluster scale and HA Example, VM Cluster (High Availability) | 1-50 nodes
  Usage Type	Duration for a pay-per-use CCE cluster
  Unit Price	When pay-per-use billing is used, the unit price is only provided if the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided in other pricing modes, for example, tiered pricing. Pay-per-use clusters are priced in the simple mode. For details, see CCE Pricing Details.
  Unit	CNY/hour
  Usage	Depends on the unit of the unit price, which, for a CCE cluster, is CNY/hour. Cluster usage is billed by the hour. In this example, the total usage is 2 hours.
  Usage Unit	Hour
  List Price	List price on the official website = Unit price of the cluster flavor x Required duration In this example, the cluster was used for 2 hours. If the unit price is $0.42 USD/hour, the list price is calculated as follows: 0.42 x 2 = $0.84 USD.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.