TaurusDB Instance Billed Items

You will be billed for the instance specifications, storage space, and backup space. For details, see Table 1.

**Table 1** Billed items
Billed Item	Billing Factor	Billing Mode	Billing Formula
(Mandatory) DB instance	vCPUs, memory, and number of nodes	Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless	Specifications unit price x Required duration x Number of nodes For details about the unit price, see "Specification Price" in TaurusDB Pricing Details.
(Mandatory) Storage	Storage space, which is billed based on the unified standard	Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless	Storage space unit price x Storage space x Required duration For details about the unit price, see "Storage Space Price" in TaurusDB Pricing Details.
(Mandatory) Backup space	Backup space, which is billed based on the unified standard	Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless	Backup space unit price x Billed backup space x Billed duration For details about the unit price, see "Backup Storage Price" in TaurusDB Pricing Details. NOTE: The billed duration refers to the length of time the billed backup space was used for.
(Optional) EIP bandwidth	Bandwidth, traffic, and EIP reservation (An EIP is required if a DB instance needs to access the Internet.) EIP for a yearly/monthly DB instance: billed by bandwidth	Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless	Billed by fixed bandwidth For details about the unit price, see "By Bandwidth" in EIP Pricing Details.
(Optional) Monitoring by Seconds	Monitoring frequency, which is billed based on the unified standard	Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless	Unit price of Monitoring by Seconds x Billed duration For details about the unit price, see Configuring Monitoring by Seconds. NOTE: Billed duration: 1s or 5s (If Monitoring by Seconds is enabled, the monitoring interval can be set to 1s or 5s.)
(Optional) HTAP instance	Standard HTAP instances are in OBT and are free.	Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless	N/A
(Optional) Cross-region backup	If cross-region backup is enabled, you will be billed for backup space and network traffic required for dumping cross-region backups.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	For details, see TaurusDB Cross-Region Backup Billed Items.
(Optional) Proxy instance	Proxy instances are free.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	N/A
(Optional) DRS migration	If you use Data Replication Service (DRS) for data migration, you will be billed based on the DRS pricing standard.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	For details, see DRS Billing.