Bills

Bill Generation

A pay-per-use instance is billed by the hour, day, or month, depending on the instance's usage type. For details, see Bill Run for Pay-per-Use Resources.

You are not billed immediately after a record is generated. For example, if a paid instance is changed to free at 08:30, you will not be billed for the period from 08:00 to 09:00 until about 10:00. On the Billing Center > Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills > Transaction Bills page, Expenditure Time indicates the time when a pay-per-use instance is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Instance

1. Log in to the management console.
2. On the top menu bar, choose Databases > Data Admin Service.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Intelligent O&M > Instance List.

   Alternatively, on the Overview page, click Go to Intelligent O&M.

4. Select the target instance (a paid instance) and copy the instance name with the following RDS instance as an example.
   Figure 1 Paid instances
   

5. On the Instances page of the RDS console, enter the copied instance name in the search box, and press Enter. On the displayed page, copy the ID of the instance.
   Figure 2 Copying the instance ID
   

6. On the top menu bar of the DAS console, choose More > Billing.
7. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills > Bill Details. On the displayed page, select Resource ID as the filter criteria, enter the obtained instance ID, and click the icon.
   

   An instance ID is in the format of das.{region_code}.{instance_id}.0 or 1.

   • region_code indicates the region where the instance is deployed.
   • instance_id indicates the ID of an instance.
   • 0 indicates a base instance, and 1 indicates storage capacity.
   Figure 3 Searching for a bill
   

   By default, the bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can choose other display options as required. For details, see Bills.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Assume that you set an instance as paid at 10:09:00 and set it as free at 12:49:00 on April 8, 2023.

• Transaction records

  Pay-per-use DAS instances are billed by second and are settled on the hour. You can check whether the information about each billing period in the transaction record is consistent with the actual information. For details, see Table 1.

  Table 1 DAS transaction records

  Service Type	Data Admin Service (DAS)
  Resource Type	Storage capacity
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Expenditure Time	For the period of time from 10:09:00 to 12:49:00 on April 8, 2023, 4 transaction records would be generated for the resource usage in the following periods: April 08, 2023, 10:00:00 to April 08, 2023, 11:00:00 April 08, 2023, 11:00:00 to April 08, 2023, 12:00:00 April 08, 2023, 12:00:00 to April 08, 2023, 13:00:00
  List Price	List price = Unit price x Required duration x Number of instances In this example, the usage of the paid instance in the first billing period is one hour. If the unit price is $0.075/hour per instance, the list price is $0.075 USD (1 x 0.075 x 1). Similarly, you can calculate the storage list price for the other periods.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Truncated Amount	However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place. The third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amounts. Take the first period as an example. The truncated amount is $0.005 USD.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount Take the first period as an example. If the discount amount is 0, the amount due is $0.007 USD (0.075 - 0 - 0.005).

• Bill details

  Bill details can display in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. You can check bill details by referring to Table 2.

  Table 2 DAS bill details

  Service Type	Data Admin Service (DAS)
  Resource Type	Storage capacity
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Resource Name/ID	Name and ID of a paid instance Example: DAS CloudDBA and das.cn-north-7.195d50ebf6f74e5f8bdd3487f421a6b5in01.0
  Specifications	1 base instance
  Usage Type	Duration
  Unit Price	$0.075
  Price Unit	$xxx/instance/hour
  Usage	Depends on the unit of the unit price, which is USD/GB/hour. Storage usage is billed by the hour. In this example, the total usage is 3 hours.
  Usage Unit	Hour
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price x Number of instances In this example, the usage is 3 hours. If the unit price is $0.075 USD/hour, the list price is $0.225 USD (3 x 0.075 x 1).
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.