- What's New
- Service Overview
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Billing
- Billing Items
- Basic Service Billing
- Value-added Service Billing
- Billing Modes
- Changing the Billing Option
- Bills
- Arrears
- Billing Termination
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Billing FAQs
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Common Cases
- What Do I Need to Pay?
- Do I Need to Buy the CDN Service Before Using Live?
- How Do I Change the Billing Option?
- Do I Need to Delete Resources If I Don't Want to Use Live Any More?
- How Do I View the Usage and Expenditure of Pay-per-Use Live Resources?
- Is Downstream Traffic or Upstream Traffic Billed?
- Will I Be Billed for URL Validation?
- How Is Transcoding Billed?
- Does the Daily Peak Bandwidth Mean the Upstream Bandwidth or Downstream Bandwidth?
- Why Is a Recording Fee Deducted on the First Day of Each Month?
- Arrears
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Common Cases
- Cloud Live
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Media Live
- Overview
- Scenarios
- Functions
- Product Advantages
- Constraints
- Getting Started
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Console Operations
- Prerequisites
- Functions
- Permissions Management
- Domain Name Management
- Channels
- Live Transcoding
- Service Monitoring
- Cloud Resource Authorization
- Tools
- Best Practices
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Cloud Live API Reference
- Before You Start
- API Overview
- Calling APIs
- Examples
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Domain Name Management
- Creating a Domain Name
- Deleting a Domain Name
- Modifying a Domain Name
- Querying a Domain Name
- Mapping Domain Names
- Deleting a Domain Name Mapping
- Configuring the Domain Name IPv6 Function
- Querying IP Address Information
- Modifying the Streaming Domain Name Delay
- Querying the Streaming Domain Name Delay
- Modifying the HLS Configuration of a Domain Name
- Querying HLS Configurations of Domain Names
- Modifying Origin Pull Settings
- Querying Origin Pull Settings
- Notification Management
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Authentication Management
- Configuring a Referer Validation ACL
- Deleting a Referer Validation ACL
- Querying Referer Validation ACLs
- Querying IP Address ACLs
- Modifying an IP Address ACL
- Generating a Signed URL
- Querying Supported Areas of a Streaming Domain Name
- Modifying Supported Areas of a Streaming Domain Name
- Querying the URL Validation Configuration of a Specified Domain Name
- Modifying the URL Validation Configuration of a Specified Domain Name
- Deleting the URL Validation Configuration of a Specified Domain Name
- Snapshot Management
- Recording Management
- Recording Callback Management
- HTTPS Certificate Management
- OBS Bucket Management
- Transcoding Template Management
- Stream Management
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Statistics Analysis
- Querying Peak Bandwidth
- Querying Total Traffic
- Querying HTTP Status Codes for Pulling Live Streams
- Querying the Duration of Transcoded Outputs
- Querying Recording Channels
- Querying the Number of Snapshots
- Querying Upstream Bandwidth
- Querying the Number of Stream Channels
- Querying the Historical Stream List
- Querying the Playback Profile
- Querying the Distribution of Live Streaming Metrics by Region
- Stream Analytics
- Appendix
- Change History
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Media Live API Reference
- Before You Start
- API Overview
- Calling APIs
- Examples
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OTT Channel Management
- Creating an OTT Channel
- Querying Channel Information
- Deleting Channel Information
- Modifying Channel Packaging Information
- Modifying Channel Input Stream Information
- Modifying Channel Recording Information
- Modifying General Channel Information
- Changing the Channel Status
- Modifying Channel Transcoding Template Information
- Appendix
- Change History
- Cloud Live Server SDK Reference
- Low Latency Live Client SDK Reference
- Troubleshooting
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Cloud Live Transcoding
Cloud Live provides standard transcoding and low-bitrate HD transcoding. The fee is calculated based on the actual codec standard, and the resolution and duration of the output video.
- Prices
- Billing rules
Table 1 Billing description Rule Item
Description
Billing Rule
You are billed based on the encoding standard, output file resolution, and output file duration. The duration is precise down to two decimal places, and the second digit is rounded off based on the third digit. If there are multiple output specifications, the total transcoding fee covers each output specification.
The number system of the transcoded stream bitrate is 1,024. For example, 1 Kbit/s = 1,024 bit/s.
NOTE:
The output specifications are determined based on whether the width or height of an output video is within the specified range.
For example, if the output resolution is HD (1,280 x 720), as long as the width is not greater than 1,280 or height is not greater than 720, you are billed based on HD (1,280 x 720). If the width of an output video is greater than 1,280 and its height is greater than 720, you are billed based on higher specifications.
Billing Cycle
You are billed based on hour in real time.
Billing Mode
Pay-per-use
Bill Run Time
After the current billing cycle (hours) ends, the specific bill run time is subject to the system.
Settlement Time
Fees are automatically deducted after bill run.
- Examples
Assume you use Cloud Live transcoding from 09:00 to 10:00 in EU-Dublin. Livestream 1 uses the H.265 encoding and is transcoded to 1,720 x 1,080 at a low bitrate (duration: 1 hour). Livestream 2 uses the H.264 encoding and is transcoded to 1,280 x 960 at a low bitrate (duration: 100 minutes). Livestream 3 uses the H.264 encoding and is transcoded to 480 x 480 (duration: 120 minutes). You need to pay the following fees for the transcoding service from 09:00 to 10:00 on that day:
$0.1088 USD/minute x 60 minutes + $0.019 USD/minute x 100 minutes + $0.0025 USD/minute x 120 minutes = $8.728 USD
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