Billing Items

Billing

You will be billed for GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance specifications, storage, backup storage, and public traffic. For details, see Table 1.

Billing items marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.

**Table 1** Billing items of GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instances
Billing Item	Description	Billing Mode	Formula
* Specifications	Billed by instance specifications, including vCPUs and memory. Compute and storage capabilities vary by the number of vCPUs and memory size.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	Unit price x Required duration See the estimated price of a cluster instance in GeminiDB Price Calculator.
* Storage space	Billed based on unified standards.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	Unit price x Storage space x Required duration See the estimated price of a cluster instance with specified storage in GeminiDB Price Calculator.
Backup storage	Billed based on unified standards.	Pay-per-use	Unit price x Billed backup storage x Required duration See the estimated price of a cluster instance with specified backup storage in GeminiDB Price Calculator. NOTE: The billing duration indicates how long the storage exceeding a free quota was used.
(Optional) Cross-region backup	Billed based on unified standards.	Pay-per-use	Unit price x Storage x Required duration Unit price of storage: CNY0.0009/GB/hour
(Optional) Cross-region backup	Billed based on unified standards.	Billed by storage	Unit price of cross-region backup traffic x Storage Unit price of cross-region backup traffic: CNY0.5/GB
Public network traffic	An EIP is required if an instance needs to access the Internet. Billing factors: bandwidth, traffic, and IP reservation EIP for a yearly/monthly instance: billed by bandwidth. EIP for a pay-per-use instance: billed by bandwidth, traffic, or shared bandwidth. You are also billed for IP reservation.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use. You can purchase a bandwidth add-on package or a shared traffic package.	Tiered pricing based on fixed bandwidth. 0 Mbit/s to 5 Mbit/s (included): billed at a fixed unit price per Mbit/s. Greater than 5 Mbit/s: billed at a different price per Mbit/s. For details, see the estimated EIP bandwidth unit price in ECS Price Calculator or EIP Price Calculator.

Billing Examples

Assume that you bought a three-node GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance with 2 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory, 100 GB of storage, 110 GB (100 GB for free) of backup storage for one month at 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023 and renewed the subscription for one more month before it expired. The billing items include instance specifications (vCPUs, memory, and nodes), storage, backup storage, and EIP bandwidth.

The first billing cycle is from 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023.
The second billing cycle is from 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 8, 2023.
- From 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 1, 2023, 50 GB of free backup storage was used.
- From 23:59:59 on May 1, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 8, 2023, another 10 GB of backup storage was billed for 168 hours.

Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.

The prices in the following figure are for reference only. For the actual prices, see GeminiDB Price Calculator.

Figure 1 Pricing example of a yearly/monthly GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance
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