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Updated on 2025-06-24 GMT+08:00
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When Will I Be Billed for Reservation Price?

You will not be billed for pay-per-use EIPs bound to instances and yearly/monthly EIPs.

If your pay-per-use EIP has no instance bound, you will be billed for the EIP reservation price. For details, see Pay-per-Use EIP Billing.

Pay-per-Use EIP Billing

You will be billed for the EIP and fixed bandwidth.

Table 1 Pay-per-use EIP billing

Billing Item

Description

EIP

If an EIP is not bound to any cloud resource, you need to pay for the EIP reservation price.

Fixed bandwidth price

(Billed items vary by billing mode.)

Pay-per-use (by bandwidth) bandwidth price

Pay-per-use (by traffic) traffic price

Shared bandwidth price

The EIP price varies by its status. For details, see Table 2.

Table 2 Price of pay-per-use EIPs in different statuses

EIP Status

Pay-per-use (billed by bandwidth)

Pay-per-use (billed by traffic)

Pay-per-use (Shared bandwidth)

EIP That Is Not Bound to Any Instance
  • EIP
  • Bandwidth

EIP
  • EIP
  • Shared bandwidth

EIP with Instance Bound

Bandwidth

NOTE:

The bandwidth will be billed regardless of whether the instance bound to the EIP is running or not. There will be no EIP reservation price.

Traffic

NOTE:

If the instance bound to the EIP stops running and there is no traffic generated, there will be no traffic and EIP reservation price.

Shared bandwidth

EIP That Is Unbound from an Instance
  • EIP
  • Bandwidth

EIP
  • EIP
  • Shared bandwidth

Released EIP

There will be no bandwidth and EIP reservation price.

There will be no traffic and EIP reservation price.

There will be no EIP reservation price.

After the shared bandwidth is deleted, it will no longer be billed.
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