Billing Items
Billing
You will be billed for instance flavors, images, EVS disks, and EIP bandwidths. For details, see Table 1.
The billing items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.
Billing Item |
Description |
Billing Mode |
Formula |
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*ECS |
Billed by ECS flavor, including vCPUs and memory. Computing and storage capabilities vary by the number of vCPUs and memory size. If a pay-per-use or spot ECS is stopped, the ECS flavor and image will no longer be billed. To save money, you can temporarily stop the ECSs that you do not need at that moment. For details, see Billing for a Stopped ECS (pay-per-use) or Billing for a Stopped Spot Instance (spot pricing). |
Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and spot pricing |
Unit price x Required duration For details about the unit price, see Specifications Price on ECS Pricing Details. |
*Image |
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Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and spot pricing |
Unit price x Required duration The unit price of an image is that displayed on the purchase page and KooGallery. |
*EVS disk (system disk) |
Billed by EVS disk type and capacity. When you purchase an ECS, a 40 GiB system disk is selected by default. You can select a higher capacity as required. Regardless of whether you use the disk, you will be billed right away after purchasing it. |
Yearly/monthly and pay-per-use |
Unit price x Required duration For details about the EVS disk unit price, see Disk Price on ECS Pricing Details or EVS Pricing Details. |
EVS disk (data disk) |
If you have additional storage requirements, you need to purchase more data disks. Billed by EVS disk type and capacity. |
Yearly/monthly and pay-per-use |
Unit price x Required duration |
EIP bandwidth |
An EIP is required if the ECS needs to access the Internet. Billed by bandwidth, traffic, and the EIP reservation price.
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Yearly/monthly and pay-per-use You can purchase a bandwidth add-on package or a shared traffic package. |
Tiered pricing based on fixed bandwidth
For details about the unit price, see Bandwidth Price on ECS Pricing Details or EIP Pricing Details. |
If you configure advanced settings, such as Host Security Service (HSS)and Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR), you need to also pay for these services. For details, see Table 2.
Billing Item |
Description |
---|---|
Host Security Service |
You can use the HSS basic or enterprise edition to protect your ECSs.
For details, see HSS Pricing Details. |
Cloud Backup and Recovery |
You can purchase a backup vault to store backups generated by the ECSs. You are billed based on the vault capacity. For details, see CBR Pricing Details. |
Billing Examples
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You need to pay for each billing cycle first. Resources are billed individually. The billing formula is shown in Table 3.
Resource |
Formula |
Unit Price |
---|---|---|
ECS (compute resources including vCPUs and memory) |
Unit price of the ECS flavor x Required duration |
For details, see Specification Price in ECS Pricing Details. |
Images |
Unit price of the image x Required duration |
See the price displayed on the purchase page or the KooGallery. |
EVS disks (system disks and data disks) |
Unit price of an EVS disk x Required duration |
See EVS Pricing Details or Disk Price in ECS Pricing Details. |
EIP bandwidth |
Tiered pricing based on fixed bandwidth.
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The unit price and whether tiered pricing is used vary depending on regions. For details, see EIP Pricing Details or Bandwidth Price in ECS Pricing Details. |
Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.
The prices in the figure are just examples. The actual prices are those displayed on ECS Pricing Details.
Reference
- For billing examples of each billing item in pay-per-use mode, see Billing Examples.
- For billing examples of each billing item in spot pricing mode, see Billing Examples.
- For billing examples of each billing item in spot block mode, see Billing Example 1: The instance expires normally., Billing Example 2: The User Releases a Spot Block Instance in Advance., and Billing Example 3: The System Releases the Spot Block Instance in Advance..
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