Billing Overview

In this document, you will learn about how load balancers are billed, how you can renew subscriptions and manage costs, and what happens if your account goes into arrears.

• Billing Modes

  There are yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes. Each one has different advantages and disadvantages. Yearly/Monthly: You pay upfront for the amount of time you expect to use load balancers for. You will need to make sure your account has sufficient balance. Pay-per-use is a postpaid mode. You can use load balancers first and then pay as you go. For details about the two billing modes, see Overview.

  You can also change the billing mode later if it no longer meets your needs. For details, see Overview.

• Billing Items

  For dedicated load balancers, you will be billed for how long you use each load balancer and how many load balancer capacity units (LCUs) you use. For shared load balancers, you will be billed for how long you use each load balancer, as described in Figure 1.

  Billing Items (Dedicated Load Balancers) and Billing Items (Shared Load Balancers) describe the billing factors and formulas for each billing item.

  For details about the billing examples and the billing for each item, see Billing Examples.

  Figure 1 ELB billing items
  
• Renewing Subscriptions

  Yearly/Monthly load balancer cannot run after their subscription expires. If you want to continue using a load balancer after it expires, you need to renew the subscription within the specified period. Otherwise, the load balancer will be automatically released, and data may be lost. You can renew your subscriptions manually or automatically. For more details, see Renewing Subscriptions.

• Bills

  You can choose Billing > Bills to check the load balancer transactions and bills. For details, see Bills.

• Arrears

  If your account is insufficient to pay your amount due, your account will go into arrears. To continue using your cloud services, top up your account in time. For details, see Arrears.

• Stopping Billing

  If you no longer need to use your cloud services, you can unsubscribe from or delete them to stop the billing. For details, see Stopping Billing.

• Cost Management

  You can allocate, analyze, and optimize load balancer costs to save more money. For details, see Cost Management.