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Billing Items

When using CSS, you will be billed by node specifications, node storage, and public network bandwidth. For details, see Table 1.

The billing items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

Table 1 CSS billing items

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Billing Formula

*Node specifications

Billed by vCPUs and memory. Computing and storage capabilities vary by the number of vCPUs and memory size.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Unit price of the node specifications x Required duration

For details, see Flavor Price in CSS Pricing Details.

*Node storage

Disk storage type and size. Select disks of a type based on your business scenario. The billing standard varies depending on the disk type. CSS provides the following types of disks:

  • Common I/O
  • High I/O
  • Ultra-High I/O

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Unit price of the node storage x Required duration

For details, see Storage Price in CSS Pricing Details.

EIP bandwidth

When you enable public access or Kibana public access for a cluster, you will be billed for the bandwidth.

CSS provides the following types of bandwidth:

  • Low bandwidth (1 to 5 Mbit/s)
  • High bandwidth (6 to 2,000 Mbit/s)

The billing automatically falls into low or high bandwidth based on the bandwidth you select.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Tiered pricing based on fixed bandwidth.

  • 0 Mbit/s to 5 Mbit/s (included): billed at a fixed unit price per Mbit/s
  • Greater than 5 Mbit/s: billed at a different price per Mbit/s

For details, see Bandwidth Price in CSS Pricing Details.

When purchasing a CSS cluster, you may be billed for snapshot storage. For details, see Table 2.

Table 2 Snapshot configuration billing items

Billing Item

Description

OBS

CSS uses OBS to store snapshots and logs, which incurs fees. For details, see the fees, see OBS Pricing Details.

Billing Example

Assume that you purchased a one-month cluster (flavor: ess.spec-4u8g) on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, and billable resources included compute resources (vCPUs and memory), storage (common I/O, 40 GB), and Kibana public network access bandwidth (1 Mbit/s). Your subscription was one month and you manually renewed it for another month before it expired. The billed usage periods are as follows:

  • Billed usage period 1: March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.
  • Billed usage period 2: April 08, 2023, 23:59:59 to May 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

You will be billed for both usage periods. CSS resources are billed individually as follows:

Table 3 Billing formula

Resource

Billing Formula

Unit Price

Node specifications

Unit price of node flavors x Required duration

For details, see Flavor Price in CSS Pricing Details.

Node storage

Unit price of the node storage x Required duration

For details, see Storage Price in CSS Pricing Details.

EIP bandwidth

Tiered pricing based on fixed bandwidth.

  • 0 Mbit/s to 5 Mbit/s (included): billed at a fixed unit price per Mbit/s
  • Greater than 5 Mbit/s: billed at a different price per Mbit/s

For details, see Bandwidth Price in CSS Pricing Details.

Figure 1 shows the billing calculation.

The prices in the figure are examples only. The actual prices are those displayed on CSS Pricing Details.

Figure 1 Total price for a yearly/monthly cluster

For billing examples of a pay-per-use cluster, see Billing Examples.