Pay-per-Use Billing

Updated on 2024-08-07 GMT+08:00

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Live supports pay-per-use billing (by default) and prepaid resource package. 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 x Unit price

For details, see Product Pricing Details. You can use the price calculator of Live to quickly estimate the price for the resources that you select.

NOTE:

If you want the price per hour, make a conversion. Taking standard storage (single AZ) as an example. Its hourly unit price is: $0.0230 USD/GB/month x (1/24/30) = $0.00003194 USD/GB/hour.

Billing Examples

Assuming that standard storage (single AZ) is used. The unit price is $0.0230 USD/GB/month and there are 100,000 GB objects in the standard storage class in a single-AZ bucket. In this case, the fee for a settlement hour is: $0.0230 USD/GB/month × 100,000 GB × (1/24/30) = $3.19 USD.

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