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Updated on 2023-11-27 GMT+08:00
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Billing Modes

Global Accelerator provides pay-per-use billing mode. Pay-per-use billing means you pay nothing up front and are not tied into any contract or commitment. This section describes the billing rules for pay-per-use global accelerators.

Application Scenarios

Pay-per-use billing is good for short-term, bursty, or unpredictable workloads that cannot tolerate any interruptions, such as applications for e-commerce flash sales, temporary testing, and scientific computing.

Billing Items

You are billed for the following resources on a pay-per-use basis.
Table 1 Billing items

Billing Item

Description

Global accelerators

You are charged based on how long each global accelerator is retained in your account.

The smallest billing unit is one hour. Partial hours are counted as full hours.

Global accelerator price = Unit price x Required duration

Data transfer

You are charged for either the inbound or outbound traffic, whichever direction has more traffic.

Data transfer price = Unit price x Traffic used

Billed Usage Period

Pay-per-use global accelerator usage is calculated by the second and billed every hour. The billing starts when the global accelerator is launched and ends when the instance is deleted.

Billing Examples

For example, if you purchased a global accelerator on July 1, 2023, 9:29:30 and deleted it on July 1, 2023, 10:45:46, the following usage periods will be billed:

  • 9:00:00 to 10:00:00 (one hour)
  • 10:00:00 to 11:00:00 (one hour)

The prices displayed in the pricing details are per hour, and you will be billed for each usage period.

Table 2 shows the billing formula.

Table 2 Formulas for billing pay-per-use global accelerators

Item

Formula

Unit Price

Global accelerators

Unit price x Usage duration

For details, see "Specifications Price" in Global Accelerator Pricing Details.

Data transfer

Unit price x Traffic used

Arrears Impact

After a global accelerator is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If your account goes into arrears, it enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 1 Lifecycle of a pay-per-use global accelerator

Arrears Reminder

The system will bill you for pay-per-use resources after each billing cycle ends. If your account goes into arrears, we will notify you by email, SMS, or in-app message.

Arrears Impact

If your account is insufficient to pay your amount due, your account goes into arrears, and the pay-per-use global accelerator enters the grace period. You are still responsible for expenditures generated during the grace period. You can view the charges on the Billing Center > Overview page and pay any past due balance as needed.

If you do not bring your account balance current before the grace period expires, the global accelerator status turns to Frozen and enters a retention period. You cannot perform any operations on a pay-per-use global accelerator in the Frozen status.

If you do not bring your account balance current before the retention period ends, the global accelerator will be released and the data cannot be restored.