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Resource Planning and Costs

This solution will deploy the resources listed in the following table. The costs are only estimates and may differ from the final prices. For details, see Price Calculator

Single-Cloud Server Deployment

Table 1 Experience Estimated Cost (Pay-Per-Use)

Huawei Cloud Services

Configuration Example

Quantity

Estimated Cost for One Complete Process (1 hour)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • VPC CIDR block: 172.16.0.0/16

1

$0.00 USD

Subnet

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Subnet CIDR block: 172.16.1.0/24
  • Gateway: 172.16.1.1

1

$0.00 USD

Security Group (SG)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Allow Ping: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open Port 22 for Cloud Shell Login: 121.36.59.153/32
  • Open Port 4000 for LiteLLM Access: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open Port 9090 for Prometheus Monitoring Dashboard

4

$0.00 USD

Huawei Cloud Flexus Cloud Server X Instance

  • Billing Mode: Pay-Per-Use — USD 0.45
  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Image: Ubuntu 24.04 server 64bit
  • Type: x86 | General computing-plus | c7n.2xlarge.2 | 8 vCPUs | 16GiB
  • System Disk: Ultra-High IO | 200GB

1(hour)

$0.45 USD

Elastic Public IP (EIP)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Billing Mode: Pay-Per-Use
  • Line Type: Dynamic BGP
  • Public Bandwidth: Billed by Traffic
  • Bandwidth Size: 200Mbit/s

1

$0.16 USD/GB

MaaS tokens (Optional)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-V3

1

Input: $0.27/1M tokens

Output: $1.078/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$0.45 USD + Elastic IP (EIP) Fee + MaaS Model Invocation Fee

Estimated costs are for reference only. Actual prices depend on usage. Please refer to the Huawei Cloud official website for detailed pricing. Final charges are based on the actual bill.

Table 2 Resources and Cost Planning (Subscription-Based)

Huawei Cloud Services

Configuration Example

Quantity

Estimated Monthly Cost

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • VPC CIDR block: 172.16.0.0/16

1

$0.00 USD

Subnet

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Subnet CIDR block: 172.16.1.0/24
  • Gateway: 172.16.1.1

1

$0.00 USD

Security Group (SG)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Allow Ping: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open Port 22 for Cloud Shell Login: 121.36.59.153/32
  • Open Port 4000 for LiteLLM Access: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open Port 9090 for Prometheus Monitoring Dashboard

4

$0.00 USD

Huawei Cloud Flexus Cloud Server X Instance

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Type: x86 | General computing-plus | c7n.2xlarge.2 | 8 vCPUs | 16GiB
  • Image: Ubuntu 24.04 server 64bit
  • System Disk: Ultra-High IO | 200GB

1(mounth)

$247.99 USD

Elastic Public IP (EIP)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Billing Mode: Pay-Per-Use
  • Line Type: Dynamic BGP
  • Public Bandwidth: Billed by Traffic
  • Bandwidth Size: 200Mbit/s

1

$0.16 USD/GB

MaaS tokens (Optional)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-V3

1

Input: $0.27/1M tokens

Output: $1.078/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$247.99 USD + Elastic IP (EIP) Fee + MaaS Model Invocation Fee

HA Deployment in CCE Container

Table 3 Resource planning and costs (pay-per-use)

Huawei Cloud Service

Example Configuration

Quantity

Estimated Monthly Cost

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • VPC CIDR block: 192.168.0.0/16

1

$0.00 USD

Subnet

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Subnet CIDR block:

    192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24, and 192.168.3.0/24

  • Gateway: 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.2.1, and 192.168.3.1

4

$0.00 USD

Security Group (SG)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Allow Ping: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open Port 22 for Cloud Shell Login: 121.36.59.153/32
  • Open Port 4000 for LiteLLM Access: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open Port 9090 for Prometheus Monitoring Dashboard

4

$0.00 USD

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Pay-per-use: $1.22 USD / hour (Total for 3 nodes)
  • Specifications: c7n.2xlarge.2 | 8 vCPUs | 16 GiB
  • Image: Ubuntu 24.04 server 64bit
  • System disk: General Purpose SSD | 100 GB

3

$1.22 USD

Elastic IP (EIP)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Routing type: dynamic BGP
  • Billed by: traffic
  • Bandwidth: 300 Mbit/s

3

$0.16 USD/GB

Cloud Container Engine (CCE)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Pay-per-use: $0.18 USD / hour
  • Type: CCE Turbo Cluster
  • Flavor: cce.s2.small (50 nodes)
  • Master nodes: 3
  • Worker nodes: 3
  • Type: CCE

1

$0.54 USD

DCS for Redis®*

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Pay-per-use: $0.13 USD/hour
  • Billing mode: pay-per-use
  • Specifications: 4 GB | Replicas: 2
  • Instance type: Redis (master/standby)

1

$0.21 USD

RDS for PostgreSQL

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Specifications: PostgreSQL 16 | Primary/Standby | General-purpose | 8 vCPUs 16GB
  • Storage: SSD | 100 GB
  • DB engine: PostgreSQL 16.8

1

$1.05 USD

Elastic Load Balance (ELB)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Type: dedicated load balancer
  • Network type: private network

1

$0.025/hour+LCU $0.00833/LCU (Charge LCU fees based on actual usage)

NAT Gateway

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Specifications: small
  • SNAT rules: 3

1

$2.44 USD/day

MaaS tokens (Optional)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-v4-Flash

1

input:$0.135 USD/1M tokens

output:$0.27 USD/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$3.05 USD + Public Internet NAT Gateway $2.44 USD/day + Application LCU Fees + Elastic IP (EIP) Fees + MaaS Token Fees

Table 4 Resource planning and costs (yearly/monthly)

Huawei Cloud Service

Example Configuration

Quantity

Estimated Monthly Cost

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • VPC CIDR block: 192.168.0.0/16

1

$0.00 USD

Subnet

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Subnet CIDR block:

    192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24, and 192.168.3.0/24

  • Gateway: 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.2.1, and 192.168.3.1

4

$0.00 USD

Security Group (SG)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Allow access from the VPC intranet: 192.168.0.0/16
  • For details about other rules, refer to the specific security group.

4

$0.00 USD

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Specifications: c7n.2xlarge.2 | 8 vCPUs | 16 GiB
  • Image: Ubuntu 24.04 server 64bit
  • System disk: General Purpose SSD | 100 GB

3

$653.07 USD

Elastic IP (EIP)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Routing type: dynamic BGP
  • Billed by: traffic
  • Bandwidth: 300 Mbit/s

3

$0.16 USD/GB

Cloud Container Engine (CCE)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Pay-per-use: $0.18 USD / hour
  • Type: CCE Turbo Cluster
  • Flavor: cce.s2.small (50 nodes)
  • Master nodes: 3
  • Worker nodes: 3
  • Type: CCE

1

$285.66 USD

DCS for Redis®*

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Pay-per-use: $0.13 USD/hour
  • Billing mode: pay-per-use
  • Specifications: 4 GB | Replicas: 2
  • Instance type: Redis (master/standby)

1

$106.85 USD

RDS for PostgreSQL

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Pay-per-use: $0.76 USD/hour
  • Specifications: PostgreSQL 16 | Primary/Standby | General-purpose | 8 vCPUs 16GB
  • Storage: SSD | 100 GB
  • DB engine: PostgreSQL 16.8

1

$572.24 USD

Elastic Load Balance (ELB)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Type: Exclusive Load Balancer
  • Number of Availability Zones: 2
  • Specification: Fixed Specification | Application Layer | Small I

1

$53.91 USD

NAT Gateway

  • Region: AP-Hong Kong
  • Billing mode: monthly
  • Specifications: Small

1

$57.30 USD

MaaS tokens (Optional)

  • Region: China-Hong Kong
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-v4-Flash

1

input:$0.135 USD/1M tokens

output:$0.27 USD/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$1729.03 USD + Elastic IP Traffic Fees + Model as a Service (MaaS) Model Invocation Fees