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Billing (Enterprise Edition VPN)

Unless otherwise specified, VPN mentioned in this section refers to Enterprise Edition VPN.

Billing Items

Table 1 VPN billing items

Billing Mode

Billing Item 1

Billing Item 2

Billing Formula

Pay-per-use

VPN instance (billed by hour)

EIP bandwidth

VPN instance fee + EIP bandwidth fee

Pay-per-use

VPN instance (billed by hour)

EIP traffic

VPN instance fee + EIP traffic fee

The total price of VPN consists of the following parts:

  • VPN instance fee: indicates the fee charged for the use of a single VPN gateway and the connection between the VPN gateway and a customer gateway. A VPN gateway is dedicated to a tenant, ensuring its forwarding performance.
  • EIP bandwidth fee: indicates the fee charged for the bandwidth consumed by the EIPs bound to a VPN gateway.
    • By default, an active-active VPN gateway has two EIPs. You need to purchase bandwidth for each EIP.
    • If you use existing EIPs as the EIPs of a VPN gateway, you will not be charged again for these EIPs.

      For details, see EIP Pricing Details.

Billing Modes

Pay-per-use

VPN instances are billed by usage duration, and the billing cycle is 1 hour. EIP bandwidth can be billed by bandwidth or traffic.

  • Billed by bandwidth
    • Billing formula: Total price = VPN instance fee + EIP bandwidth fee

      EIP bandwidth refers to outbound bandwidth, that is, bandwidth for traffic sent from a VPC on the cloud to a customer gateway in an on-premises data center.

      1. If the purchased bandwidth is 10 Mbit/s or less, the inbound bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbit/s.
      2. If the purchased bandwidth is greater than 10 Mbit/s, the inbound bandwidth is the same as the purchased bandwidth.

        For example, assuming that the bandwidth you purchased is 50 Mbit/s and you use the VPN gateway for 5 hours and then delete it, you will be charged for the use of 50 Mbit/s bandwidth for 5 hours even if you do not transmit any data during the 5 hours.

  • Billed by traffic

    If you select billing by traffic, you will be charged for the traffic generated in every hour, with the billing unit being 1 GB. If less than 1 GB is generated, the fee is calculated based on the actually generated traffic volume. In this case, modifying the bandwidth size does not change the public network traffic price per GB. Only traffic in the outbound direction is billed.

    • Billing formula: Total price = VPN instance fee + EIP traffic fee
Parent topic: Overview