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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.

Table 1 Billing items of a GeminiDB HBase instance

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.

Figure 1 Pricing example of a yearly/monthly GeminiDB HBase instance

For more billing examples of a pay-per-use instance, see Billing Examples.

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