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Billing Items (Shared Load Balancers)

Billing

Shared load balancers are billed as described in Table 1.

For details about load balancer pricing, see ELB Pricing Details. You can use the price calculator to quickly estimate the price for the load balancers that you select.

Table 1 Billing items

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Formula

Load balancer

You are charged for how long a shared load balancer is retained in your account. If the load balancer is retained in your account for less than 1 hour, you will be charged for the actual duration, accurate to seconds.

Pay-per-use

Unit price × Required duration

Shared load balancers are available in CN-Hong Kong, AP-Singapore, CN East-Shanghai1, LA-Mexico City1, and LA-Sao Paulo1.

  • Shared load balancers are billed based on the billing mode you can select on the console.
  • If you bind an EIP to a shared load balancer, you will also be charged for the EIP and the bandwidth used by the EIP.

    For details about EIP pricing, see Elastic IP Pricing Details.

Billing Examples

Assume that you purchased a shared load balancer at 09:30:00 on April 18, 2023 and deleted it at 12:00:00 on April 19, 2023.

Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.

Table 2 Billing details

Billing Item

Required Duration

Pricing Details (USD)

Total Price (USD)

Load balancer
  • 2023/04/18 9:30:00 – 2023/04/19 00:00:00

    870 minutes

  • 2023/04/19 00:00:00 – 2023/04/19 12:00:00

    720 minutes
  • 870/60 × 0.05 = 0.725
  • 720/60 × 0.05 = 0.6

0.725 + 0.6 = 1.325

The prices in the figure are for reference only. The actual calculation is subject to the prices in the Elastic Load Balance Pricing Details.

Figure 1 Example for calculating the total price for a shared load balancer