Bills

Precautions

• CDN does not support bill generation by domain name, enterprise project, or tag. You can use cost splitting to view the amortized costs.
• Traffic statistics on the CDN console are the logged traffic statistics. However, the billable traffic is 10% higher than the logged statistics because TCP/IP packet headers and TCP retransmissions also consume traffic.
• If you have purchased a traffic package, you cannot view the package bill by package ID. You can query the bill by package name. For details about how to obtain the package name, see Resource Packages.

Bill Reporting Period

The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at a fixed interval for settlement. Pay-per-use products can be settled by hour, day, or month based on the usage type. For details about the fee deduction rules, see Bill Run for Pay-per-Use Resources.

• CDN traffic is billed by hour. Traffic used in an hour will be settled 4 hours later.
• CDN peak bandwidth is billed by day. The system settles the bandwidth at about 20:00 (GMT+08:00) the next day.
• In the average daily peak bandwidth and 95th percentile bandwidth billing options, the system settles the bandwidth at about 20:00 (GMT+08:00) on the first day of the next month.

Example: If traffic-based billing is used, the fee generated from 08:00 to 09:00 is deducted at about 13:00. On the Billing Center > Billing > Expenditure Details page, Expenditure Time indicates the time when a pay-per-use product is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

• CDN is billed by account. Bills cannot be queried by resource (acceleration domain name). For details about how to view the cost of each acceleration domain name, see Cost Management.
• A resource ID in a CDN bill is in the format of UUID + Billing region + Billing option. The UUID is generated by account. The resource ID is used only for billing and cannot be queried on the CDN console.
• For details about the mapping between resource IDs and usage types in bills, see Mapping Between Usage Types and Resource IDs in CDN Bills.

Checking CDN Usage Based on Bills

To check whether the CDN usage is consistent with that in bills, log in to the CDN console, choose Dashboard in the navigation pane, and check the billing option on the right. The following table lists whether a billing option supports CDN usage check and the check methods.

• Checking the total usage
  Example: Assume that you changed the billing option from peak bandwidth to traffic on May 12, 2023. The change took effect at 00:00 on May 13, 2023. Then, you changed the billing option from traffic to peak bandwidth on May 30, 2023 and the change took effect at 00:00 on May 31, 2023. Therefore, you were billed by traffic from May 13, 2023 to May 30, 2023. The service area of domain names under this account is Chinese mainland. To check bills, perform the following operations:

  1. Log in to the CDN console, choose Analytics > Data Export, click Create Export Task, and set the parameters.
     • Task Name: user-defined
     • Export Mode: All
     • Period: May 13, 2023 – May 30, 2023
     • Data: Statistics
     • Granularity: 1 hour
     • Metric: Traffic
     • Region: Chinese mainland
  2. Click OK. After the task is complete, download the Excel file.
  3. Calculate the sum of all usage values to obtain the total CDN usage.

     

  4. Go to the Billing Center. In the navigation pane, choose Billing > Expenditure Items. Select a billing cycle, search for CDN fees, and click on the right to download the bill.
  5. In the exported bill, filter Usage Type by traffic.

     Total usage = Usage + Package Usage = 5,252,506,434,878

     

  6. The value obtained in step 5 (5,252,506,434,878 bytes) slightly differs from that obtained in step 3 (5,252,506,754,351 bytes). CDN traffic is charged in GB, and the conversion results of the two values are both 4891.778 GB, which does not affect the charged fee.
     

     The exported bills may be the logged traffic statistics. However, the billable traffic is 10% higher than the logged statistics because TCP/IP packet headers and TCP retransmissions also consume traffic. Therefore, the usage exported from the CDN console must be multiplied by 1.1.

Mapping Between Usage Types and Resource IDs in CDN Bills

• UUIDs are generated by account. Different resource IDs of the same account share the same UUID.
• Only customers who have enabled region-based billing outside the Chinese mainland have IDs of region-based resources outside the Chinese mainland.
• The bandwidth and traffic in the Chinese mainland use the same resource ID. Therefore, the billing option cannot be identified based on the resource ID.