Updated on 2024-03-05 GMT+08:00

Billing Items

Billing

You will be billed for the VPN gateway, VPN connection (group), EIP, and enterprise router. For details, see Table 1.

The billing items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

Table 1 VPN billing items

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Billing Formula

* VPN gateway

  • Enterprise Edition VPN: The unit price varies according to the specification of the gateway instance.
  • Yearly/Monthly
  • Pay-per-use

Unit price of a gateway x Billed duration

* VPN connection (group)

  • Enterprise Edition VPN: By default, 10 VPN connection groups are included free of charge with the purchase of a VPN gateway. You can purchase more VPN connection groups as required.
  • Yearly/Monthly
  • Pay-per-use

Unit price of a connection (group) x Billed duration

EIP

You need to purchase EIPs only in public network scenarios.

  • Yearly/Monthly
  • Pay-per-use
  • Yearly/Monthly: You are charged based on the bandwidth you select.
  • Pay-per-use (billed by bandwidth): You are charged based on the bandwidth you select.
  • Pay-per-use (billed by traffic): You are charged based on the traffic you generate.

Enterprise router

  • Yearly/Monthly
  • Pay-per-use

Unit price of a connection x Billed duration + Unit price of traffic x Billed traffic

Billing Example (Enterprise Edition VPN)

Suppose you purchased a one-month Enterprise Edition VPN gateway (associated with an enterprise router; specification: Professional 1; number of VPN connection groups: 20; bandwidth: 20 Mbit/s) at 15:50:04 on March 08, 2023, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. The following usage periods will be billed:

  • 15:50:04 on March 08, 2023 to 23:59:59 on April 08, 2023
  • 23:59:59 on April 08, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 08, 2023

You will be billed for both usage periods. VPN resources of different types are billed individually, as described in Table 2.

Table 2 Billing formulas

Resource

Billing Formula

Unit Price

VPN gateway

USD/month per VPN gateway

Refer to VPN Pricing Details.

VPN connection group

USD/month per 10 VPN connection groups

Refer to VPN Pricing Details.

EIP

USD/month·per Mbit/s

Refer to Product Pricing Details of EIP.

Enterprise router

Enterprise router connection fee (USD/hour) + Enterprise router traffic fee (USD/GB)

Refer to Product Pricing Details of Enterprise Router.