Billing Example

Updated on 2025-02-06 GMT+08:00

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Unit prices in this example are used for reference only, and the prices calculated here are only estimates. As unit prices change from time to time, the prices shown here may differ from actual prices. For details, see the data released at the Huawei Cloud official website.

Billing Scenario

Assume that a user purchased a pay-per-use Enterprise Edition VPN gateway with the following configuration at 15:30:00 on March 18, 2024:

Billing mode: pay-per-use
Network type: public network
Associated with a VPC
Specification: Professional 1
Number of VPN connection groups: 10
HA mode: active-active
Bandwidth of the active EIP: 20 Mbit/s
Bandwidth of active EIP 2: 20 Mbit/s
Public network bandwidth: billed by bandwidth

The pricing of billing items is as follows:

Gateway: $0.33 USD/hour per gateway
VPN connection group: $0.035 USD/hour per connection group
Bandwidth fee (active EIP + active EIP 2): $1.14 USD/hour

The user purchased one VPN connection group at 16:30:00 on March 18, 2024. After a period of time, the user found that the VPN quotas no longer met service requirements, and increased the bandwidth to 30 Mbit/s at 09:00:00 on March 20, 2024. The new bandwidth price is $1.82 USD per hour. Since the VPN gateway was intended for long-term use, the user changed the billing mode of the VPN gateway to yearly/monthly and set the renewal duration to one month at 10:30:00 on March 20, 2024. So how much will the user be billed for this VPN gateway in March and April?

Billing Analysis

The total price of the VPN involves both pay-per-use and yearly/monthly usage:

Pay-per-use usage: 15:30:00 on March 18, 2024 to 10:30:00 on March 20, 2024
Yearly/Monthly usage: 10:30:00 on March 20, 2024 to 23:59:59 on April 20, 2024

**Table 1** Price details
Billing Phase	VPN Connection Group	Billed Duration	Price Details (USD)	Total Price (USD)
Pay-per-use usage from 15:30:00 on March 18, 2024 to 10:30:00 on March 20, 2024	Within the quota	60 minutes 2024/03/18 15:30:00 to 2024/03/18 16:30:00	VPN gateway: 60/60 x 0.33 x 1 = 0.33 VPN connection group: 60/60 x 0 x 10 = 0 Bandwidth: 60/60 x 1.14 = 1.14	65.7
	Exceeding the quota	2430 minutes 2024/03/18 16:30:00 to 2024/03/20 09:00:00	VPN gateway: 2430/60 x 0.33 x 1 = 13.365 VPN connection group: 2430/60 x 0 x 10 + 2430/60 x 0.035 x 1 = 1.4175 Bandwidth: 2430/60 x 1.14 = 46.17
	Exceeding the quota	90 minutes 2024/03/20 09:00:00 to 2024/03/20 10:30:00	VPN gateway: 90/60 x 0.33 x 1 = 0.495 VPN connection group: 90/60 x 0 x 10 + 90/60 x 0.035 x 1 = 0.0525 Bandwidth: 90/60 x 1.82 = 2.73
Yearly/Monthly usage from 10:30:00 on March 20, 2024 to 23:59:59 on April 20, 2024	Exceeding the quota	One month 2024/03/20 10:30:00 to 2024/04/20 23:59:59	VPN gateway: $209 USD/month VPN connection group: $82.5 USD/month (If more than 10 VPN connection groups are required, the user can purchase additional VPN connection groups as required, which are sold in units of 10.) Bandwidth: $858.60 USD/month	1150.1

From March to April, the total price of the VPN gateway is $1215.8 USD (65.7 + 1150.1).

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