Billing Items
Billing
You will be billed for instance specifications, storage, and backup storage. The following table lists the billing items.

Billing items marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.
Billing Item |
Description |
Billing Mode |
Formula |
---|---|---|---|
* Specifications |
Billed by instance specifications, including vCPUs and memory. Compute and storage capabilities vary by the number of vCPUs and memory size. |
Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use |
Unit price x Required duration See the estimated price of a cluster instance in GeminiDB Price Calculator. |
* Storage space |
Billed based on unified standards. |
Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use |
Unit price x Storage space x Required duration See the estimated price of a cluster instance with specified storage in GeminiDB Price Calculator. |
Backup storage |
Billed based on unified standards. |
Pay-per-use |
Unit price x Billed backup storage x Required duration See the estimated price of an instance with specified backup storage in GeminiDB Price Calculator.
NOTE:
The billing duration indicates how long the storage exceeding a free quota was used. |
(Optional) Cross-region backup |
Billed based on unified standards. |
Pay-per-use |
Unit price x Storage x Required duration Unit price of storage: CNY0.0009/GB/hour |
Billed based on unified standards. |
Billed by storage |
Unit price of cross-region backup traffic x Storage Unit price of cross-region backup traffic: CNY0.5/GB |
Billing Examples
Assume that you bought a three-node GeminiDB HBase instance with 2 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory, 100 GB of storage, 110 GB (100 GB for free) of backup storage for one month at 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023 and renewed the subscription for one more month before it expired. The billing items include instance specifications (vCPUs, memory, and nodes), storage, backup storage, and EIP bandwidth.
The first billing cycle is from 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023.
The second billing cycle is from 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 8, 2023.
From 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 1, 2023, 50 GB of free backup storage was used.
From 23:59:59 on May 1, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 8, 2023, another 10 GB of backup storage was billed for 168 hours.
Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.

The prices in the following figure are for reference only. For the actual prices, see GeminiDB Price Calculator.
For more billing examples of a pay-per-use instance, see Billing Examples.
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