Updated on 2024-04-18 GMT+08:00

Billing

Billing Item

EIPs are billed on a pay-per-use basis. Table 1 describes the EIP billing items.
Table 1 EIP billing

Billing Mode

Billing By

EIP Retention Fee

Bandwidth Price

Public Network Traffic Price

Pay-per-use

Bandwidth

  • EIP retention fee is not included if the EIP is bound to an ECS, BMS, or load balancer.
  • EIP retention fee is included if the EIP is unbound but not released.

Included

Not included

Traffic

Not included

Included

  • "Not included" indicates that the fee will not be included in the bill. "Included" indicates that the fee will be included in the bill.
  • You can go to the product pricing details page to view details about the EIP pricing.

Billing Options

The public network bandwidth can be billed by fixed bandwidth or by traffic usage.
  • By fixed bandwidth: You will be billed based on the bandwidth you specify. Your outbound bandwidth will not exceed the bandwidth specified.
  • By traffic usage: You will be billed on a pay-per-use basis. Only traffic used in the outbound direction will be billed.

    To prevent excessive fees due to sudden traffic spikes, you can set a peak value for the outbound bandwidth.

You can select the billing mode based on bandwidth usage.

EIPs are billed on a pay-per-use basis. For details, see Table 2.
Table 2 EIP billing items

Billing Item

Description

Applicable Scenario

Bandwidth Price

The bandwidth is fixed and the traffic is not limited.

For heavy or stable traffic

Public network traffic

Specified maximum bandwidth, billed hourly by the amount of traffic used

For light or sharply fluctuating traffic

EIP retention fee

  • If an EIP is bound to an instance, the EIP is free.
  • If an EIP is unbound from an instance but is not released, the EIP will be billed.

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Configuration Changes

For a pay-per-use EIP, you can change the bandwidth name, size, and specify whether it is to be billed by bandwidth or traffic.
Table 3 Impact on fees

Billing Mode

Change Scenario

Impact on Fees

Pay-per-use

Change the EIP to be billed by traffic or billed by bandwidth.

The change will take effect immediately.