Low Latency Live (LLL) Fee

By default, the fee is charged by downstream playback traffic. Currently, you can pay by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, or 95th percentile bandwidth.

Billing by Traffic

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

Price

**Table 1** Price of downstream traffic
Traffic Tier	Middle East/Africa Price (USD/GB)	Asia Pacific 1 Price (USD/GB)	Asia Pacific 2 Price (USD/GB)
≤ 10 TB	0.24	0.176	0.176
10–50 TB (included)	0.228	0.144	0.144
50–100 TB (included)	0.196	0.128	0.128
100 TB to 1 PB (included)	0.172	0.114	0.08
> 1 PB	0.11	0.106	0.07

For details about each billing region, see Region/Country Codes.

Billing rules

**Table 2** 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 price of input is the same as that of the Cloud Stream Live output.
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 Low Latency Live (LLL) in the Asia-Pacific 1 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 $0.176 USD/GB, and the price of 10 TB to 50 TB (included) is $0.144 USD/GB. The 6 TB traffic generated on January 1 is priced at $0.176 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 $0.176 USD/GB and that of the remaining 3 TB (7 TB minus 4 TB) is $0.144 USD/GB.

Results:

Bill on January 1: 6 × 1024 GB × $0.176 USD/GB = $1081.344 USD Bills are generated in batches after each hour of playback.

Bill on January 2: 4 × 1024 GB × $0.176 USD/GB + (6 + 7 – 10) × 1024 GB × $0.144 USD/GB = $1163.264 USD 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

**Table 3** Price of daily peak bandwidth
Peak Bandwidth Tier	Middle East/Africa Price (USD/Mbit/s)	Asia Pacific 1 Price (USD/Mbit/s)	Asia Pacific 2 Price (USD/Mbit/s)
≤ 100 Mbit/s	1.689	1.044	1.044
100 to 500 Mbit/s (included)	1.673	1.034	1.034
500 Mbit/s to 5 Gbit/s (included)	1.535	0.905	0.905
5 to 20 Gbit/s (included)	1.415	0.801	0.801
> 20 Gbit/s	1.357	0.671	0.671

For details about each billing region, see Region/Country Codes.

Billing rules

**Table 4** 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 price of input is the same as that of the Cloud Stream Live output.
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 200 Mbit/s bandwidth for LLL during the billing cycle in the Asia Pacific 1 region on January 15, you need to pay the following bandwidth fees on that day:

The cost of LLL bandwidth is 200 Mbit/s x $1.034 USD/Mbit/s = $206.8 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.

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.

**Table 5** Billing description
Rule Item	Description
Billing Rule	The peak bandwidth is charged at the contracted price. The number system of billing by 95th percentile bandwidth is 1000. For example, 1 Gbit/s = 1000 Mbit/s.
Billing Cycle	By month. The usage for each month will be billed in the following month.
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 price of input is the same as that of the Cloud Stream Live output.
Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
Billed	After the current billing cycle (calendar month) ends, the system deducts fees at about 20:00:00 (GMT+08:00) on the first day of the next month. The actual fee deduction time is subject to the system bill run time.
Settlement Time	After a bill is generated, the system automatically deducts fees from your account balance.