Updated on 2025-09-04 GMT+08:00

Yearly/Monthly Billing

If you expect to use resources for a longer period, you can save money by selecting yearly/monthly billing. This section describes billing rules for yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx resources.

Application Scenarios

If you want to ensure resource stability over a certain period of time, yearly/monthly billing is a good choice for the following types of workloads:

  • Long-term workloads with stable resource requirements, such as official websites, online malls, and blogs.
  • Long-term projects, such as scientific research projects and large-scale events.
  • Workloads with predictable traffic bursts, for example, e-commerce promotions or festivals.
  • Workloads with high data security requirements.

Billing Items

You are billed for the following items on a yearly/monthly basis.

Table 1 Items billed on a yearly/monthly basis

Billing Item

Description

Instance specifications

Instance specifications, including vCPUs and memory.

Storage space

If the actual storage usage exceeds your purchased storage, you will be billed for additional storage on a pay-per-use basis.

Backup space

GeminiDB Influx provides backup storage up to 100% of your provisioned database storage at no additional charge.

After the free backup storage is used up, additional usage will be priced by the hour based on the backup storage pricing details. If it has been used less than one hour, you will be billed based on the actual duration.

(Optional) EIP bandwidth

GeminiDB Influx instances are accessible from public networks, and you are billed for the generated public network traffic, but not for private network traffic.

If you want to purchase a 3-node (specifications of each node: 4 vCPUs | 16 GB) GeminiDB Influx instance with 100 GB of storage space. At the bottom of the instance buying page, price details (excluding the backup space fee) will be displayed.

Figure 1 Example price

You are billed for:

  • Selected specifications for your instance
  • Storage space

The backup space fee is not included. For details about the backup price, see Product Pricing Details.

Billing Cycle

A yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance is billed for the purchased duration (UTC+8). The billing starts when you activated or renewed the subscription, and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you bought a GeminiDB Influx instance for one month at 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023, the billing cycle is from 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023.

Billing Examples

Assume that you bought a three-node GeminiDB Influx instance with 4 vCPUs, 16 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.

You need to pay in advance for each billing cycle. Each resource is billed separately.

Table 2 Billing formulas

Resource

Formula

Unit Price

Instance specifications (including vCPUs and memory)

Unit price of the instance specifications x Required duration x Number of nodes

For details about the unit price, see Cluster CPU/Memory on Product Pricing Details

Storage

Storage unit price x Required duration x Storage (GB)

For details about the unit price, see Storage Space on Product Pricing Details.

Backup storage

Backup storage unit price x Required duration x (Backup storage – Storage) (GB)

NOTE:

The billing duration indicates how long the storage exceeding a free quota was used.

For details about the unit price, see Backup Storage Space on Product Pricing Details.

EIP bandwidth

Billed by fixed bandwidth

For details, see Product Pricing Details.

Figure 2 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.

Figure 2 Total price for a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance

Price Change After Specification Change

If the specifications of a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance no longer meet your needs, you can change the specifications on the console. The system will recalculate the price and either bill or refund you the difference.

  • If you increase instance specifications, you need to pay the difference in price.
  • If you decrease instance specifications, Huawei Cloud will refund you the difference.

Decreasing instance specifications will affect instance performance. You are not advised to do so. Assume that you bought a yearly/monthly three-node GeminiDB Influx instance with 4 vCPU and 16 GB of memory for one month on April 8, 2023 and increased its specifications to 8 vCPUs and 32 GB of memory on April 18, 2023. The old specifications cost USD827.62/month and the new specifications USD1616.74/month. The calculation formula is as follows:

Price difference = Price of new specifications x Remaining period – Price of old specifications x Remaining period

The remaining period is the remaining days of each calendar month divided by the maximum number of days in each calendar month. In this example, the remaining period is 0.6581 (12/30 + 8/31). The fee for increasing specifications is USD519.32 (1616.74 × 0.6581 – 827.62 × 0.6581).

For more details, see Pricing of a Changed Specification.

Impact of Expiration

Figure 3 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance can go through throughout its lifecycle. After a GeminiDB Influx instance is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If the instance is not renewed after it expires, before being deleted, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 3 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance

Expiration Reminder

The system will send you a reminder (by email, SMS, or in-app message) before a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance expires to the Huawei Cloud account creator.

  • Expiration notifications will be sent 30 days, 15 days, 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before yearly resources expire.
  • Expiration notifications will be sent 15 days, 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before monthly resources expire.

Impact of Expiration

If your yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance is not renewed after it expires, it changes to the Expired state and enters a grace period. During the grace period, you can access the GeminiDB Influx instance but cannot:

  • Change instance specifications.
  • Change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.
  • Unsubscribe from it.

If the yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance is not renewed after the grace period ends, its status turns to Frozen and it enters a retention period. You cannot perform any operations on the instance while it is in the retention period.

If the yearly/monthly GeminiDB Influx instance is not renewed by the time the retention period ends, it will be released and data cannot be restored.

  • For details about renewals, see Overview.