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Updated on 2024-10-30 GMT+08:00
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Billing by 95th Percentile Bandwidth

Scenarios

This billing option suits you if your monthly expenditure for CDN is greater than $15,000 USD or your monthly expenditure for Whole Site Acceleration (WSA) is greater than $1,500 USD. Contact your account manager and apply for it.

Billing Details

Billing Rule

Billing Period

Description

Billing item: peak bandwidth

Payment: post payment

Billing method: You are billed by peak bandwidth at the contract price.

Conversion rule: 1 Mbit/s = 1,000 kbit/s

You are billed on a monthly basis. The usage for each month will be billed in the following month.

In each calendar month, the peak bandwidth is measured and recorded on each valid day. At the end of the month, the records are sorted from the highest to the lowest, and the top 5% of the records are thrown away. Then the highest bandwidth value in the remaining records is the billable bandwidth of the month.
  • Valid day: Any day when traffic is consumed is considered a valid day.
  • Measurement point: The bandwidth used is sampled every 5 minutes. There are 288 data samples per day.
  • CDN billing by region: CDN is billed separately in the Chinese mainland and outside the Chinese mainland. When applying for the 95th peak bandwidth billing option, confirm the region where your contract takes effect.

Example

Company C's 95th percentile bandwidth billing took effect on October 1, 2020, and the contract price is M/Mbit/s per month.

Suppose that there are X valid days in October, so there are 288 x X measurement points. The top 5% of these bandwidth values are thrown away, and the highest bandwidth value in the remaining records is the billable bandwidth, which is marked as Max95. Therefore, the billable amount for company C in October is Max95 x M x (X/Total days in October).

Bill Run Time

The system generates a bill at about 20:00:00 (GMT+08:00) on the first day of the next month for fee deduction. The actual bill generation time may vary slightly from month to month.

Parent topic: Basic Service Billing