Billing Examples

On May 15, 2025, CAE hosted a microservice application and provided services for users.

Running: The application started at 10:00:00 and stopped at 15:00:00 every day. During peak hours (11:00:00-12:30:00), the 4 vCPU | 8 GiB component expanded to five instances, and the 1 vCPU | 2 GiB components expanded to three instances. During off-peak hours, each component required two instances to process services. 2.56 GB of traffic data was used in total.

Billing Duration

Off-peak hours: 210 min/day x 15 days = 3,150 min
Peak hours: 90 min/day x 15 days = 1,350 min
Traffic: 2.56 GB/day x 15 days = 38.4 GB
- The prices in the figure are for reference only. The actual calculation is subject to the prices in CAE Pricing Details.
- In this example, the vCPU and memory specifications did not exceed the minimum specifications. So they were billed based on the minimum specifications (8 vCPU | 32 GiB) using the premium unit price.
Figure 1 Total price for a pay-per-use CAE instance

CAE hosted many applications, and used 15,000 core-hours of vCPUs, 30,000 GiB-hours of memory, and 1 TB of traffic data in a month.

Billing Analysis

Unit prices in this example are used for reference only, and the calculated prices are estimated fees. As unit prices may change from time to time, the calculated prices may differ from actual prices. For details, see the data released on the Huawei Cloud official website.
In this example, the vCPU and memory specifications (15,000 vCPU | 30,000 GiB) exceed the minimum specifications. You were billed for:
1. Specifications at or below the minimum specifications (8 vCPU | 32 GiB). This portion is billed based on the premium unit price.
2. Specifications in excess of the minimum specifications. This portion (14,992 vCPU | 29,968 GiB) is billed based on the general unit price.

Billing Mode	Formula	Billing Cycle	Price
Pay-per-use	vCPU: Instance specification unit price x Instance specifications x Usage duration	Monthly	CPU: 0.05826 (USD/core-hour) x 8 (core-hour) + 0.080898 (USD/core-hour) x 14992 (core-hour) = USD1213.288896/month
	Memory: Instance specification unit price x Instance specifications x Usage duration		Memory: 0.00636 (USD/GiB-hour) x 32 (GiB-hour) + 0.00885 (USD/GiB-hour) x 29968 (GiB-hour) = USD265.42032/month
	Traffic: Traffic unit price x Traffic volume		Traffic: $116.736 USD/TB x 1 TB = $116.736 USD/month
	Total		USD1595.445216/month