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Billing Examples

Billing Scenario 1

A user purchased a million-edge GES graph billed in pay-per-use mode at 16:00:00 on August 8, 2023. After using it for some time, the user deleted the graph at 16:00:00 on August 22, 2023. How much did the graph cost in total?

Billing Analysis

The graph was billed according to the million-edge graph specifications from 16:00:00 on August 8, 2023 to 16:00:00 on August 22, 2023, with a unit price of 1.25 USD/hour and a billing duration of 336 hours. The cost is calculated as follows:

1.25 USD/hour x 336 hours = 420 USD

The total cost of the GES graph instance is 420 USD.

Billing Scenario 2

A user purchased a billion-edge graph billed in pay-per-use mode at 14:00:00 on August 18, 2023. After using it for some time, the user found that the current specifications could not meet their business needs and expanded the graph by adding one replica for the graph instance at 10:00:00 on August 20, 2023. The user deleted the graph at 18:00:00 on August 30, 2023. How much did the graph instance cost in total?

Billing Analysis

The pay-per-use billing is divided into two stages: single replica billing from August 18, 2023, at 14:00:00 to August 20, 2023, at 10:00:00, and double replica billing from August 20, 2023, at 10:00:00 to August 30, 2023, at 18:00:00.

Time

2023/08/18 14:00:00 ~ 2023/08/20 10:00:00

2023/08/20 10:00:00 ~ 2023/08/30 18:00:00

Replicas

1

2

Graph size

Billion-edge

Billion-edge

Unit price

12 USD/hour

24 USD/hour

Billing duration

44 hours

248 hours

Total cost

12 USD x 44 = 528 USD

24 USD x 248 = 5,952 USD

Total cost of the graph instance:

528 + 5952 = 6480 USD

Billing Scenario 3

A company needs to use GES service for graph storage and queries. The graph size is ten-million-edge, and the planned usage duration is one month (30 days). The company wants to know which billing mode is the most cost-effective.

Billing Analysis

The table below describes the details of pay-per-use billing and yearly/monthly billing.

Billing Mode

Formula

Payment Period

Unit Price

Usage Duration

Cost

Pay-per-use

Unit price x Usage duration

Hourly

3 USD/hour

720 hours

3USD×720 = 2160 USD

Yearly/Monthly

Monthly

1,400 USD/month

1 month

1400USD×1 = 1400 USD

In conclusion, using annual/monthly billing will save you a lot of costs. The longer the purchased duration, the more discounts you can get.

Unit prices in this example are used for reference only. The prices shown here are only estimates. As unit prices change from time to time, the prices shown here will differ from actual ones. For details, see the data released on the Huawei Cloud official website.

The current cost does not include OBS storage space fees, public network traffic fees, and public network bandwidth fees. Refer to the billing standards of the relevant services for specific fees.