Billing Items

Billing

You will be billed for the VPN gateway and VPN connection, as described in Table 1.

To quickly learn about pricing of the VPN service, see VPN Pricing Details.

In Table 1, the billing items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

**Table 1** P2C VPN billing items
Billing Item	Description	Billing Mode	Billing Formula
* VPN gateway	The unit price varies according to the specification of the gateway instance.	Yearly/Monthly Pay-per-use	Unit price of a gateway x Billed duration
* VPN connection	By default, 10 VPN connections are free of charge with the purchase of a VPN gateway. You can purchase more VPN connections as required.	Yearly/Monthly Pay-per-use	Unit price of a connection x Billed duration
EIP	For details, see Billing Items of EIP.	Yearly/Monthly Pay-per-use	Yearly/Monthly: You are charged based on the bandwidth you select. Pay-per-use (billed by bandwidth): You are charged based on the bandwidth you select. Pay-per-use (billed by traffic): You are charged based on the traffic you generate.

Billing Example

Suppose you purchased a one-month P2C VPN gateway (specification: Professional 1; number of VPN connections: 20; bandwidth: 20 Mbit/s) at 15:50:04 on August 08, 2025, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. The following billing cycles are involved:

15:50:04 on August 08, 2025 to 23:59:59 on September 08, 2025
23:59:59 on September 08, 2025 to 23:59:59 on October 08, 2025

You need to pay for each billing cycle. VPN resources of different types are billed individually, as described in Table 2.