Pay-per-Use Billing
Concept
Pay-per-use billing is a postpaid billing mode in which an ECS will be billed based on usage frequency and duration. ECSs are billed by second. The system generates a bill every hour based on the usage duration and deducts the billed amount from the account balance. A pay-per-use ECS can be provisioned and deleted at any time.
For more billing information, see Pay-per-Use Billing.
For a stopped pay-per-use ECS, the startup may fail due to insufficient resources. Please wait for several minutes before attempting another restart or changing the ECS specifications.
Billing Examples
In the pay-per-use billing mode, ECSs are billed by the second. The price per second of each type of ECS can be obtained by dividing their hourly price by 3600. Obtain the hourly price on the Product Pricing Details page.
- If you use the ECS for 30 minutes, you need to pay for $0.34 USD (0.68/3600 x 30 x 60).
- If you use the ECS for 1 hour and 30 minutes, you need to pay for $1.02 USD (0.68/3600 x 90 x 60).
Resources Supporting Pay-per-Use Billing
Resources billed on a pay-per-use basis include:
- ECSs (vCPUs and memory)
- Images, including Marketplace images as well as shared or customized images based on Marketplace images
- EVS disks purchased together with a yearly/monthly ECS
- Bandwidth purchased with a pay-per-use ECS
For details about ECS prices, see Price Calculator.
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