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Updated on 2024-03-19 GMT+08:00
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Billing Items

The billing items of Live cover the basic services and value-added services. For details, see Product Pricing Details.

  • Basic service fee: This part (live content distribution) is charged based on the traffic or bandwidth generated in the area where a user watches live video. The basic service fee covers Interactive Livestreaming and Low Latency Live (LLL). The corresponding billing mode is by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, or 95th percentile bandwidth. You can select a suitable billing mode.
  • Value-added service fee: This part covers live transcoding, recording, and snapshot capturing. The services can be used on demand and are charged based on your actual usage.

For details, see Table 1.

  • If you change from billing by traffic or daily peak bandwidth to 95th percentile bandwidth, the change will take effect from in the current month. If you change from billing by 95th percentile bandwidth to other billing options, the change will take effect on the first day of the next month, and you are billed using the original option before the change takes effect.
  • Live billing is global. All acceleration domain names under an account use the same billing mode.
Table 1 Billing items

Type

Item

Description

Billing Mode

Reference

Basic services

Cloud Stream Live

Currently, you can pay by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, or 95th percentile bandwidth. By default, only output is billed.

  • Traffic: You are billed by the traffic used per hour.
  • By peak bandwidth. The system measures and records a bandwidth value every 5 minutes, so 288 values are recorded every day. The largest value of each day is used as the billable bandwidth.
  • By 95th percentile bandwidth: In each calendar month, the peak bandwidth is measured and recorded every 5 minutes on each valid day. At the end of the month, the records are sorted from the highest to the lowest, and the top 5% of the records are thrown away. Then the highest bandwidth value in the remaining records is the billable bandwidth of the month and a bill is generated based on the contract price.

Pay-per-use

Cloud Stream Live Fee

LLL

Low Latency Live (LLL) Fee

Value-added service

Cloud Stream Live Transcoding

You are billed based on the output duration.

The fee is charged by MPC.

Pay-per-use

Cloud Live Transcoding Fee

Value-added service

Media Live Transcoding

You are billed based on the duration of the input and output live streams.

The fee is charged by MPC.
  • Pay-per-use
  • Yearly/Monthly

Media Live Transcoding Fee

Value-added service

Recording
  • Monthly recording: You are billed based on the peak number of concurrent recording streams in a month. The fee is charged by VOD.
  • Recording storage: You are billed based on the used storage space. If the recording is stored in an OBS bucket, the storage fee is charged by OBS.

Pay-per-use

Recording Fee

Value-added service

Snapshot capturing
  • Snapshot capturing: You will be billed by Live based on the number of captured snapshots.
  • Snapshot storage: You will be billed by OBS based on the used storage space.

Pay-per-use

Snapshot Capturing Fee