Resource Reconciliation

Live allows you to check whether a bill matches actual resource usage.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

To check whether the usage of Live is consistent with that in bills, log in to the Live console, choose Overview in the navigation pane, and check the current billing mode on the right. The following table lists whether a billing mode supports Live usage checks and the check methods.

Billing Option	Usage Type	Usage Check Method
Billing by traffic	Traffic	For details, see Checking the Resource Usage – Traffic-based Billing. Usage cannot be checked by enterprise project, domain name, or tag. For details about how to split costs by enterprise project, domain name, or tag, see Enabling Cost Splitting.
Billing by daily peak bandwidth	Daily peak bandwidth	The total usage cannot be checked. You can use cost categories to group costs to different departments or enterprise projects. For details, see Allocating Costs By Cost Category. This billing option does not support cost splitting.
Billing by 95th percentile bandwidth	95th percentile bandwidth	Usage cannot be checked by enterprise project, domain name, or tag. For details about how to split costs by enterprise project, domain name, or tag, see Enabling Cost Splitting.
Value-added service	Cloud Live transcoding: You are billed based on the encoding standard, output resolution, and output duration.	The methods for checking the usage are the same for all value-added services. For details, see Checking the Resource Usage – Live Snapshot Capturing Fee.
Value-added service	Cloud Live recording: The number of concurrent recording streams is calculated every day and the peak value in the current month is used as the billing point.	The methods for checking the usage are the same for all value-added services. For details, see Checking the Resource Usage – Live Snapshot Capturing Fee.
Value-added service	Cloud Live snapshot capturing: You are billed based on the number of snapshots.	For details, see Checking the Resource Usage – Live Snapshot Capturing Fee.

Checking the Resource Usage – Traffic-based Billing

Assume that account A is billed by traffic every hour on April 30, 2025. The following example shows how to check the resource usage in one hour:

Log in to the Live console and choose Service Monitoring. The Downstream Bandwidth/Traffic tab is displayed by default. Set the parameters for querying the traffic usage as follows:
- Time: Select Custom and set the time to 2025/04/30 11:00:00 - 2025/04/30 11:59:59.
- Domain name: Select a Live domain name in the current region (CN North-Beijing4).
- Enterprise project: Select the enterprise project that the domain name is added to.
- Region: Select China.
- Province: Select All provinces/states.
- Carrier: Select All carriers.
- Application name: No setting is required.
- Stream name: No setting is required.
- Granularity: Select Every 5 minutes.
- Protocol: Select All Protocols.
Select Traffic in the right pane. As shown in Figure 1, the resource usage is 619.11 MB.
Convert MB to GB and round the conversion result to four decimal places. The converted value is 0.6046 GB (619.11 MB/1024).

You can also click on the page to download the queried downstream traffic result to your local PC.

Figure 1 Resource usage shown on the Live console
Click Billing in the top menu bar to go to the Billing Center.
Perform the following operations to view the resource usage of 0.6046 GB from 11:00 to 12:00 on April 30, 2025.
1. In the navigation pane, choose Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills.
2. On the Bill Details tab, set Sort By to Usage, Data Period to Details, Service Type to Live, and Resource Type to Live CDN Flow.
Figure 2 Resource usage shown in Billing Center
Since Billing Center's billing unit for Live CDN traffic is GB, compare the resource usage shown in Billing Center with the converted value obtained in step 2. They are both 0.6046 GB. The usage check is complete.

Checking the Resource Usage – Live Snapshot Capturing Fee

The following example shows how to check account A's snapshot capturing fee (settled by day) in the CN North-Beijing4 region on April 30, 2025.

Log in to the Live console and select CN North-Beijing4.
Choose Usage Statistics in the left navigation pane, click the Snapshot Capturing tab, and set the parameters as follows:
- Domain name: Select All domain names.
- Time: Select Custom and set the time to 2025/04/30 00:00:00 - 2025/04/30 23:59:59.
The total number of snapshots is 580, as shown in the trend chart in Figure 3.
Expressed in thousands, the value is 0.58 (580/1,000).

Figure 3 Snapshot quantity shown on the Live console
Click Billing in the top menu bar to go to the Billing Center.
Perform the following operations to view the snapshot quantity of 0.58 thousand on April 30, 2025 in CN North-Beijing4.
1. In the navigation pane, choose Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills.
2. On the Bill Details tab, set Sort By to Usage, Data Period to By day, Service Type to Live, and Resource Type to Live Snapshot.
Figure 4 Snapshot quantity shown in Billing Center
Since Billing Center's billing unit for Live snapshots is thousand, compare the snapshot quantity shown in Billing Center with the converted value obtained in step 2. They are both 0.58 thousand. The quantity check is complete.