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Updated on 2024-03-14 GMT+08:00
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About Billing

WAF instances are billed on a pay-per-use basis, which is postpaid.

Billing Items

You are billed for WAF instances you select based on the billing items.

Table 1 Billing items

Mode

Billing Mode

Billing Item

Billing Description

Cloud mode

Pay-per-use
  • Number of domains
  • Number of customized rules
  • Number of requests
  • Number of domain names: Billed on an hourly basis. Once a domain name is added during the billing period, it will be billed no matter when it is deleted.
  • Number of customized rules: Billed on a daily basis. The billing is calculated at 00:00:00 every day.
  • Number of requests: Billed on a monthly basis.

Dedicated mode

Pay-per-use

Number of instances

Billed for what you use

Billing Modes

Pay-per-use billing: In this billing mode, you can enable or disable a WAF instance anytime you want.
  • For a pay-per-use cloud WAF instance, you are billed for the number of added domain names, number of customized rules, and number of used requests.
  • For a pay-per-use dedicated WAF instance, you are billed for the required duration (accurate to second), which starts when the instance is created and ends when the instance is deleted.
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