Updated on 2024-02-05 GMT+08:00

Pay-per-Use Billing

Pay-per-use: In each billing cycle, the system calculates the fee based on the actual usage of each resource multiplied by the unit price, and then deducts the fee from the account balance.

With pay-per-use billing, you can use MPC resources as long as you have enough balance in your account.

Billing Cycles

The following describes how a pay-per-use CDR is generated:

  • If settlement is performed by hour, a CDR is generated four hours later.
  • If settlement is performed by day, a CDR is generated after 16:00 on the next day.
  • If settlement is performed by month, a CDR is generated in the first three days of the next month.

Billing Formulas

Fee = Used resources x Unit price

For details, see Product Pricing Details. You can use the price calculator of MPC to quickly estimate the price of the resources that you select.

If you want the charge per hour, calculate it as follows: Taking standard storage (single AZ) as an example. Its hourly unit price is as follow: $0.0230 USD/GB per month x (1/24/30) = $0.00003194 USD/GB per hour.

Billing Examples

Assuming that in the scenarios with standard storage (single AZ) used, the unit price is $0.0230 USD/GB per month and there are 100,000 GB objects in the standard storage class in a single-AZ bucket. In this case, the fee for a settlement hour is: $0.0230 USD/GB per month × 100,000 GB × (1/24/30) month = $3.19 USD.