Billing Items

The billing items of Live cover both basic and value-added services. For details about the Live pricing, see Live Pricing Details. Low Latency Live (LLL) is now part of Huawei Cloud SparkRTC. For details about the pricing, see SparkRTC Pricing Details.

Basic service billing items include Cloud Stream Live, Low Latency Live, stream push to third-party destinations, and Media Live. They are billed based on the traffic or bandwidth consumed at the distribution nodes in the area where your live content is played. All basic service billing items share a unified billing option. The supported options include billing by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, and 95th percentile bandwidth. You can choose the option that best suits your needs.
Value-added service billing items include Cloud Live recording, Cloud Live snapshot capturing, and Cloud Live transcoding. These services are available on-demand, and you pay only for your actual usage.

For details, see Table 1 and Table 2

If you switch from traffic-based billing or daily peak bandwidth billing to 95th percentile bandwidth billing, the change will take effect in the current month. If you switch from 95th percentile bandwidth billing to another option, the change will take effect on the first day of the next month, and you will continue to be billed under the original option until the change takes effect.
The billing option you choose is applied globally. The effective billing mode depends on your most recent configuration or the billing mode activated for the specific billing items in your latest commercial contract.
- All acceleration domain names under an account use the same billing mode.
- Uniform billing is also applied to all basic service billing items, including Cloud Stream Live, LLL, stream-push to third-party destinations, and Media Live, which are billed collectively based on either traffic or bandwidth.

**Table 1** Billing items of Cloud Live
Category	Billing Item	Description	Billing Mode	Reference
Basic services	Cloud Stream Live	You can choose to be billed by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, or 95th percentile bandwidth. By default, only output is billed. By traffic: You are billed by the traffic generated per hour. By peak bandwidth: The system measures and records a bandwidth value every 5 minutes, so 288 values are recorded per day. The largest value of each day is used as the billable bandwidth. By 95th percentile bandwidth: In each calendar month, the peak bandwidth is measured and recorded on each valid day. At the end of the month, the recorded values are sorted from the highest to the lowest, and the top 5% of them are thrown away. The highest value remaining is the billable bandwidth of the month, and a bill is generated based on the contract price.	Pay-per-use Cloud Stream Live billed by traffic: prepaid resource packages	Cloud Stream Live
	LLL			Low Latency Live (LLL)
	Stream push to third-party destinations	The billing options and pricing are the same as those of Cloud Stream Live.	Pay-per-use	Stream Push to Third-party Destinations
Value-added services	Cloud Live transcoding	You are billed based on the output duration. The fee is billed by MPC.	Pay-per-use	Cloud Live Transcoding
Value-added services	Cloud Live recording	Monthly recording: You are billed based on the peak number of concurrent recording streams in a month. The fee is billed by VOD. Recording storage: You are billed based on the used storage space. If recordings are stored to OBS buckets, OBS bills you for storage and API requests (including recording upload requests). For details, see OBS Pricing Details.	Pay-per-use	Cloud Live Recording
Value-added services	Cloud Live snapshot capturing	Snapshot capturing: You are billed by Live based on the number of captured snapshots. Snapshot storage: OBS bills you for snapshot storage and API requests (including snapshot upload requests). For details, see OBS Pricing Details.	Pay-per-use	Cloud Live Snapshot Capturing

**Table 2** Billing items of Media Live
Category	Billing Item	Description	Billing Mode	Reference
Basic services	Media Live	You can choose to be billed by traffic, daily peak bandwidth, or 95th percentile bandwidth. By default, only output is billed. By traffic: You are billed by the traffic generated per hour. By peak bandwidth: The system measures and records a bandwidth value every 5 minutes, so 288 values are recorded per day. The largest value of each day is used as the billable bandwidth. By 95th percentile bandwidth: In each calendar month, the peak bandwidth is measured and recorded on each valid day. At the end of the month, the recorded values are sorted from the highest to the lowest, and the top 5% of them are thrown away. The highest value remaining is the billable bandwidth of the month, and a bill is generated based on the contract price.	Bandwidth: pay-per-use Traffic: pay-per-use and prepaid resource packages	Media Live
Basic services	Media Live transcoding	You are billed based on the duration of the input and output livestreams. The fee is billed by MPC. For details, see Price Calculator.	Pay-per-use Prepaid resource packages	Media Live Transcoding
	Media Live Package packaging	You are billed based on input livestream traffic and real-time packaging traffic. The fee is billed by Media Live. For details, see Price Calculator.	Pay-per-use	Media Live Packaging
	Media Live Package output to third-party CDNs	You are billed based on the output traffic from real-time packaging to third-party CDNs. The fee is billed by Media Live.	Pay-per-use	Media Live Packaging Output to Third-Party CDNs