Pay-per-Use Billing
Live supports pay-per-use billing (by default) and prepaid resource packages. In each billing cycle, the fee is calculated based on the actual usage of each resource multiplied by the unit price. Then the fee is deducted from your account balance. You can select a billing mode as needed.
With pay-per-use billing, you can use Live resources as long as you have enough account balance.
Notes
- If you change from billing by traffic or daily peak bandwidth to another one, the change will take effect from 00:00:00 the next day after you submitted the change.
- If you change from billing by 95th percentile bandwidth to another one, the change will take effect from 00:00:00 the first day of the next month.
Billing Cycles
Time when a pay-per-use CDR is generated with different settlement modes:
- Settlement by hour: four hours later
- Settlement by day: after 16:00 on the next day
- Settlement by month: on the first three days of the next month
Billing Formulas
Fee = Resource usage × Unit price
For details about pay-per-use pricing, see Live Pricing Details. You can use the price calculator of Live to quickly estimate the price for the resources that you select.
Billing Examples
Assume that 6 TB of downstream traffic is generated from 20:00 to 21:00 (one billing cycle) on January 1, and no traffic is generated in other time periods. The downstream traffic fee (of Cloud Stream Live) from 20:00 to 21:00 on January 1 is as follows:
6 × 1024 GB × $0.03 USD/GB = $184.32 USD
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