Pay-Per-Use

Application Scenarios

Pay-per-use billing is good for short-term, bursty, or unpredictable workloads that cannot tolerate any interruptions, such as applications for e-commerce flash sales, temporary testing, and scientific computing.

Billing items

Table 1 lists the billing items that support pay-per-use.

Billing Periods

In the pay-per-use billing mode of CNAD 2.0 enterprise edition, charges are incurred based on the daily volume of scrubbed traffic. Billing starts from the instance's creation time and ends at 01:00:00 the following day.

Billing Examples

Let's consider a scenario on May 22, 2024, at 9:59 AM: You've acquired a Cloud Native Protection 2.0 service within mainland China and opted for the pay-per-use traffic billing option. Beyond the Cloud Native Protection basic fee, a bill for pay-per-use clean traffic will be issued the following day.

The billing period for clean traffic spans from May 22, 2024, 9:59:30 AM to May 23, 2024, 01:00:00 AM.

The cost incurred during this billing period is for the clean traffic. The clean traffic fee is calculated as follows:

Clean Traffic Fee = Clean Traffic Volume x Traffic Unit Price

For details about the traffic unit price, see Price Calculator.

For example, if 200 TB clean traffic is generated in the preceding billing period, the clean traffic fee is calculated as follows:

Figure 1 Fee calculation example

The price in the figure is for reference only.