Cloud Stream Live Fee

Billing by Traffic

You are billed based on the prices of tiered downstream traffic.

• Price

  For details, see Product Pricing Details.

• Billing rules

  Table 1 Billing description

  Rule Item	Description
  Billing Rule	The tiered traffic is accumulated by calendar month. After a calendar month ends, the traffic is cleared. Traffic unit conversion: 1024-based. For example, 1 PB = 1024 TB = 1024 x 1024 GB.
  Billing Cycle	A bill is generated on the hour.
  Billing Direction	By default, only output is billed. If the ratio between the number of live streams and number of viewers is greater than 1:50, input is also billed. The unit prices for input and output are the same.
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Billed	After the current billing cycle (hours) ends, the usage in an hour is usually billed four hours later (subject to the system).
  Settlement Time	Fees are automatically deducted after bill run.

• Example

  Description: If you use Live in the AP-Singapore region on January 1 and January 2, the generated downstream playback traffic is 6 TB and 7 TB, respectively. In addition, the ratio between the number of live streams and number of viewers is less than 1:50. Therefore, upstream fees are not charged. The traffic fees that you need to pay is calculated as follows:

  Process: According to the tiered pricing table, the price of 0 TB to 10 TB (included) is $0.03 USD/GB, and the price of 10 TB to 50 TB (included) is $0.027 USD/GB. The 6 TB traffic generated on January 1 is priced at $0.03 USD/GB. Of the 7 TB traffic generated on January 2, the corresponding pricing of 4 TB (10 TB minus the 6 TB traffic generated on January 1) is $0.03 USD/GB and that of the remaining 3 TB (7 TB minus 4 TB) is $0.027 USD/GB.

  Results:

  Bill on January 1: 6 × 1024 GB × $0.03 USD/GB = $184.32 USD Bills are generated in batches after each hour of playback.

  Bill on January 2: 4 × 1024 GB × $0.03 USD/GB + (6 + 7 – 10) × 1024 GB × $0.027 USD/GB = $205.82 USD/GB Bills are generated in batches after each hour of playback.

Billing by Daily Peak Bandwidth

The system measures and records a peak bandwidth (in Mbit/s) value every 5 minutes, so 288 records are collected per day. The highest peak bandwidth per day is used as the billable bandwidth.

• Price

  For details, see Product Pricing Details.

• Billing rules

  Table 2 Billing description

  Rule Item	Description
  Billing Rule	You are billed based on peak bandwidth tiers. The number system of billing by peak bandwidth is 1000. For example, 1 Gbit/s = 1000 Mbit/s.
  Billing Cycle	By day. The usage for each day (00:00:00 to 23:59:59) will be billed on the following day.
  Billing Direction	By default, only output is billed. If the ratio between the number of live streams and number of viewers is greater than 1:50, input is also billed. The unit prices for input and output are the same.
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Billed	After the current billing cycle (calendar day) ends, the system deducts fees at about 20:00:00 (GMT+08:00) on the next day. The actual fee deduction time is subject to the system bill run time.
  Settlement Time	Fees are automatically deducted after bill run.

• Example

  If 200 viewers watch a live stream at a bitrate of 1 Mbit/s, the consumed bandwidth is

  200 Mbit/s (1 x 200).

  If you use the livestreaming acceleration service in the AP-Singapore region on January 15 and 200 Mbit/s bandwidth is used, you need to pay the following bandwidth fees of that day:

  The cost of Live bandwidth is 200 Mbit/s x $0.082 USD/Mbit/s = $16.4 USD.

Billing 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 recorded bandwidth values are thrown away. Then the highest bandwidth value in the remaining records is the billable bandwidth of the month.

• Valid day: Any day when traffic is consumed by using LSA is considered a valid day.
• Measurement point: The bandwidth used is sampled every 5 minutes. There are 288 data samples per day.

Take a 30-day month as an example. The following values are valid by default. There is one bandwidth value per 5 minutes, namely 12 value points per hour, so there are 12 x 24 x 30 = 8640 value points per month. All points are sorted from the highest to lowest, and the top 5% of the recorded bandwidth values are thrown away, that is, 8640 x 5% = 432 points, so the 433rd value is the billing point. Similarly, if there are 31 days in a month, the following values are valid by default, and the 447th value is the billing point.

Billing by 95th percentile bandwidth is available for customers who have a budget of more than $15,000 USD each month. Contact your account manager and apply for this billing option.