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Updated on 2026-02-04 GMT+08:00
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Billing Items

The billing items of Live cover the basic services and value-added services. For details about the Live pricing, see Live Pricing Details.

  • Basic service fees: This part covers the cost of live content distribution, charged based on the traffic or bandwidth generated in the area where viewers watch live video. The basic service fees cover Cloud Stream Live and Low Latency Live (LLL). The supported billing options include by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, and 95th percentile bandwidth. You can choose the option that best suits your needs.
  • Value-added service fees: This part applies to optional, advanced features, including stream push to third-party destinations, Cloud Live transcoding, and Media Live transcoding. You can use these services as needed and pay only for actual usage.

For details, see Table 1 and Table 2

  • If you switch from traffic-based billing or daily peak bandwidth billing to 95th percentile bandwidth billing, the change will take effect in the current month. If you switch from 95th percentile bandwidth billing to another option, the change will take effect on the first day of the next month, and you will continue to be billed under the original option until the change takes effect.
  • Live billing is global. All acceleration domain names under an account use the same billing mode.
Table 1 Billing items of Cloud Live

Type

Item

Description

Billing Mode

Reference

Basic service

Cloud Stream Live

Currently, you can pay by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, or 95th percentile bandwidth. By default, only output is billed.

  • By traffic: You are billed by the traffic used per hour.
  • By peak bandwidth: The system measures and records a bandwidth value every 5 minutes, so 288 values are recorded every day. The largest value of each day is used as the billable bandwidth.
  • By 95th percentile bandwidth: In each calendar month, the peak bandwidth is measured and recorded every 5 minutes on each valid day. At the end of the month, the records are sorted from the highest to the lowest, and the top 5% of the records are thrown away. Then the highest bandwidth value in the remaining records is the billable bandwidth of the month and a bill is generated based on the contract price.
  • Pay-per-use

Cloud Stream Live

LLL

Low Latency Live (LLL)

Value-added service

Stream push to third-party destinations

The billing mode and fee are the same as those of Cloud Stream Live.

Pay-per-use

Stream Relay

Cloud Live transcoding

You are billed based on the output duration.

Pay-per-use

Cloud Live Transcoding
Table 2 Billing items of Media Live

Type

Item

Description

Billing Mode

Reference

Basic service

Media Live

Currently, you can pay by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, or 95th percentile bandwidth. By default, only output is billed.

  • By traffic: You are billed by the traffic used per hour.
  • By peak bandwidth. The system measures and records a bandwidth value every 5 minutes, so 288 values are recorded every day. The largest value of each day is used as the billable bandwidth.
  • By 95th percentile bandwidth: In each calendar month, the peak bandwidth is measured and recorded every 5 minutes on each valid day. At the end of the month, the records are sorted from the highest to the lowest, and the top 5% of the records are thrown away. Then the highest bandwidth value in the remaining records is the billable bandwidth of the month and a bill is generated based on the contract price.
  • Bandwidth: pay-per-use
  • Traffic: pay-per-use and prepaid resource packages

Compared with Cloud Live, Media Live only charges downstream playback traffic fees. For details, see Cloud Stream Live.

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