Prepaid CDN Traffic Packages

Scenarios

If you choose traffic-based billing when enabling CDN and your site will generate a large volume of traffic, you are advised to buy traffic packages of appropriate specifications to save money.

Purchase

Log in to the CDN console. In the Resource Packages area on the right of the page, click Buy (if you have purchased a package before) or Buy Resource Package (if no package is available). For details about the prices, see Product Pricing Details.
For details about how to view the purchased traffic packages, see Resource Package Management.
CDN provides you with more preferential off-peak traffic packages and combined traffic packages in the Chinese mainland.
- A normal traffic package can be used to deduct traffic generated all day.
- An off-peak traffic package can be used to deduct traffic generated from 00:00 to 18:00 GMT+08:00.
- A combined traffic package contains all-day and off-peak traffic in a given ratio.
  
  Deduction sequence during off-peak hours: off-peak traffic packages > normal traffic packages > account balance.

Billing Details

Specifications: 500 GB to 1 PB

Validity period: one month, six months, or one year

Conversion rule: 1 GB = 1,024 MB

Payment: one-off payment. You can specify packages to take effect immediately or at a specific time (within half a year after purchase). Packages cannot be unsubscribed from.

Deduction: Your traffic package is used first if you have one. Traffic consumed beyond the package will be billed on a pay-per-use basis. Traffic deducted from a package will not be counted during tiered pricing.

Billing item: traffic generated when users access CDN PoPs and traffic generated for whole site acceleration. The number of requests for whole site acceleration are billed separately.

Billing cycle: an hour. Traffic used in an hour will be deducted from a traffic package 4 hours later.

Usage scope: Chinese mainland or International. Traffic packages can be used to deduct only fees of traffic generated only in the Chinese mainland or outside the Chinese mainland. If you have enabled region-based billing outside the Chinese mainland, international traffic packages cannot be used to deduct the traffic generated outside the Chinese mainland.

Notes

Traffic packages can be used only when traffic-based billing is used.
Traffic packages vary by region, either in the Chinese mainland or outside it. For domain names with the Global service area, buy separate traffic packages for each region if you need to deduct traffic generated in both regions.
Example: A customer purchases a 200 TB all-day Chinese mainland traffic package. The customer has a domain name whose service area is Global. This traffic package can be used to deduct traffic generated by PoPs in the Chinese mainland, but cannot be used to deduct traffic generated by other PoPs. To deduct traffic generated by PoPs outside the Chinese mainland, the customer must purchase an International traffic package.
Buying multiple traffic packages increases the traffic quota but does not extend the validity period. The traffic package with the earliest expiration date is used first.
Example: A customer purchases two Chinese mainland traffic packages.

Traffic package 1: 500 GB normal traffic package, which is valid for six months, from June 6, 2021 to December 6, 2021.

Traffic package 2: 200 TB normal traffic package, which is valid for one year, from July 6, 2021 to July 6, 2022.

Fee deduction: Traffic package 1 is used first. After traffic package 1 is used up, traffic package 2 is used.
A package will automatically expire when it reaches the end of its validity period, and any remaining quota in the package can no longer be used. Excess usage will be billed on a pay-per-use basis.
A package can be used only by the buyer account.
Changing from traffic-based billing to another billing option will freeze your traffic packages. To use them, you must switch back to traffic-based billing before they expire.
CDN cannot share a traffic package with the Live or Video on Demand (VOD) service.