Billing Items

Billing

You will be billed for the VPN gateway, VPN connection (group), EIP, and enterprise router. For details, see Table 1.

The billing items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

**Table 1** VPN billing items
Billing Item	Description	Billing Mode	Billing Formula
* VPN gateway	Enterprise Edition VPN: The unit price varies according to the specification of the gateway instance. Classic VPN: N/A	Yearly/Monthly Pay-per-use	Unit price of a gateway x Billed duration
* VPN connection (group)	Enterprise Edition VPN: By default, 10 VPN connection groups are included free of charge with the purchase of a VPN gateway. You can purchase more VPN connection groups as required. Classic VPN: By default, 10 VPN connections are free of charge for a VPN gateway. You can purchase more VPN connections as required.	Yearly/Monthly Pay-per-use	Unit price of a connection (group) x Billed duration
EIP	You need to purchase EIPs only in public network scenarios. For details, see EIP Billing Items	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.
Enterprise router	Enterprise Edition VPN: You need to purchase an enterprise router only when you associate a VPN gateway with it. For details, see Billing of the Enterprise Router Service.	Yearly/Monthly Pay-per-use	Unit price of a connection x Billed duration + Unit price of traffic x Billed traffic

Billing Example (Enterprise Edition VPN)

Suppose you purchased a one-month Enterprise Edition VPN gateway (associated with an enterprise router; specification: Professional 1; number of VPN connection groups: 20; bandwidth: 20 Mbit/s) at 15:50:04 on March 08, 2023, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. The following usage periods will be billed:

15:50:04 on March 08, 2023 to 23:59:59 on April 08, 2023
23:59:59 on April 08, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 08, 2023

You will be billed for both usage periods. VPN resources of different types are billed individually, as described in Table 2.

**Table 2** Billing formulas
Resource	Billing Formula	Unit Price
VPN gateway	USD/month per VPN gateway	Refer to Product Pricing Details of VPN.
VPN connection group	USD/month per 10 VPN connection groups	Refer to Product Pricing Details of VPN.
EIP	USD/month·per Mbit/s	Refer to Product Pricing Details of EIP.
Enterprise router	Enterprise router connection fee (USD/hour) + Enterprise router traffic fee (USD/GB)	Refer to Product Pricing Details of Enterprise Router.

Billing Example (Classic VPN)

Suppose you purchased a one-month Classic VPN gateway (number of VPN connections: 20; bandwidth: 20 Mbit/s) at 15:50:04 on March 08, 2023, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. The following usage periods will be billed:

15:50:04 on March 08, 2023 to 23:59:59 on April 08, 2023
23:59:59 on April 08, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 08, 2023

You will be billed for both usage periods. VPN resources of different types are billed individually, as described in Table 3.

**Table 3** Billing formulas
Resource	Billing Formula	Unit Price
VPN connection	USD/month per 10 VPN connections	Refer to Product Pricing Details of VPN.
Bandwidth	USD/month·per Mbit/s	Refer to Product Pricing Details of EIP.