Prepaid Traffic Packages

Scenarios

If you choose traffic-based billing when enabling CDN and your site will generate a large volume of traffic, you are advised to buy traffic packages of appropriate specifications to save money.

Purchase

• Log in to the CDN console. On the right of the Dashboard page, click Buy (if you have purchased a traffic package before) or Buy Resource Package (if no package is available), and buy traffic packages. For details about the prices, see Pricing Details.
• For details about how to view the purchased traffic packages, see Resource Package Management.
• CDN provides you with more preferential off-peak traffic packages and combined traffic packages.
  • A normal traffic package can be used to deduct traffic generated all day.
  • An off-peak traffic package can be used to deduct traffic generated from 00:00 to 18:00 GMT+08:00.
  • A combined traffic package contains all-day and off-peak traffic in a given ratio.
    

    • Deduction sequence during off-peak hours: off-peak traffic packages > normal traffic packages > account balance.

Billing Details

Specifications: 500 GB to 1 PB.

Validity period: one month, six months, or one year

Conversion rule: 1 GB = 1,024 MB

Payment: one-off payment. Packages take effect immediately after purchase. Traffic packages cannot be unsubscribed from.

Deduction: Your traffic package is used first if you have one. Traffic consumed beyond the package will be billed on a pay-per-use basis. Traffic deducted from a package will not be counted during tiered pricing.

Billing item: traffic generated when users access CDN PoPs and traffic generated for whole site acceleration. The number of requests for whole site acceleration are billed separately.

Billing cycle: an hour. Traffic used in an hour will be deducted from a traffic package 4 hours later.

Usage scope: Chinese mainland or International. Traffic packages can be used to deduct fees of traffic generated only in the Chinese mainland or outside the Chinese mainland. If you have enabled region-based billing outside the Chinese mainland, international traffic packages cannot be used to deduct the traffic generated outside the Chinese mainland.

Notes

1. Traffic packages can be used only when traffic-based billing is used.
2. If you have enabled global acceleration and want to purchase traffic packages, you must purchase a traffic package separately for the Chinese mainland and for outside the Chinese mainland.
3. All domain names in your account with the same service area as that of a traffic package share the traffic package.

   Example: A customer purchases a 200 TB normal Chinese mainland traffic package. The customer has a domain name and the service area of the domain name is global. This traffic package can be used to deduct the traffic generated by PoPs in the Chinese mainland, but cannot be used to deduct the traffic generated by PoPs outside the Chinese mainland. To deduct traffic generated by PoPs outside the Chinese mainland, the customer must purchase an International traffic package.

4. If you purchase multiple traffic packages, the traffic quota increases but the validity period is not extended. The traffic package with the earliest expiration date is used first.

   Example: A customer purchases two Chinese mainland traffic packages.

   Traffic package 1: 500 GB normal traffic package, which is valid for six months, from June 6, 2021 to December 6, 2021.

   Traffic package 2: 200 TB normal traffic package, which is valid for one year, from July 6, 2021 to July 6, 2022.

   Fee deduction: Traffic package 1 is used first. After traffic package 1 is used up, traffic package 2 is used.

5. A traffic package will automatically expire when it reaches the end of its validity period, and any remaining traffic in the package can no longer be used. Traffic consumed beyond the package will be billed on a pay-per-use basis.
6. A package can be used only by the buyer account.
7. If you change traffic-based billing to another billing option, your purchased packages will be frozen until the billing option is changed back to the traffic-based billing.
8. CDN cannot share a traffic package with the Live or Video on Demand (VOD) service.