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Overview

Billing Modes

There is only pay-per-use billing mode.

  • Pay-per-use is a postpaid billing mode. You pay as you go and pay for what you use. The load balancer usage is calculated by the second but billed every hour. Pay-per-use billing is a good option for scenarios where there are sudden traffic bursts, such as e-commerce promotions.
Table 1 Billing modes

Billing Mode

Pay-per-use

Payment

Postpaid

Billing Usage Period

Calculated by the second but billed every hour.

You are charged for how long you use each load balancer.

Specification Type
  • Elastic
  • Fixed

Changing the Specifications

Supported

Application Scenarios

Recommended when the resource demands are likely to fluctuate and you want more flexibility.

The billing items of load balancers vary by specification type. For details, see Table 2 and Table 3.

Table 2 Billing items of dedicated load balancers

Billing Mode

Specification Type

LCU

Load Balancer

Pay-per-use

Elastic

√

√

Fixed

√

×
Table 3 Billing items of shared load balancers

Billing Mode

Specification Type

LCU

Load Balancer

Pay-per-use

-

×

√
  • √ indicates that the billing item is involved. × indicates that the billing item is not involved.
  • If you bind an EIP to a 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.

Parent topic: Billing Mode