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Billing Composition

Yearly/Monthly EIP Billing

You are billed based on your required duration. No operations on the EIP will affect its billing.

Pay-per-Use EIP Billing

You will be billed for the EIP and fixed bandwidth.

Table 1 Pay-per-use EIP billing

Billing Item

Description

EIP reservation price

If an EIP is not bound to any cloud resource, you need to pay for the EIP reservation price.

NOTE:

EIP reservation price is billed by second. Assume that you buy an EIP at 08:01:00 and bind it to an instance at 08:01:10. The EIP reservation price is billed for 10 seconds, that is, from 08:01:00 to 08:01:10.

Fixed bandwidth price

(Billed items vary by billing mode.)

Pay-per-use (by bandwidth) bandwidth price

Pay-per-use (by traffic) traffic price

Shared bandwidth price

The EIP price varies by its status. For details, see Table 2.

Table 2 Price of pay-per-use EIPs in different statuses

EIP Status

Pay-per-Use EIP (Billed by Bandwidth)

Pay-per-Use EIP (Billed by Traffic)

Pay-per-Use EIP (Shared Bandwidth)

EIP that is not bound to any instance
  • EIP reservation price
  • Bandwidth price

EIP reservation price
  • EIP reservation price
  • Shared bandwidth price

EIP with instance bound

Bandwidth price

NOTE:

The bandwidth will be billed regardless of whether the instance bound to the EIP is running or not. There will be no EIP reservation price.

Traffic price

NOTE:

If the instance bound to the EIP stops running and there is no traffic generated, there will be no traffic and EIP reservation price.

Shared bandwidth price

EIP that is unbound from an instance
  • EIP reservation price
  • Bandwidth price

EIP reservation price
  • EIP reservation price
  • Shared bandwidth price

Released EIP

There will be no bandwidth and EIP reservation price.

There will be no traffic and EIP reservation price.

There will be no EIP reservation price.

After a shared bandwidth is deleted, it will no longer be billed.

Resource Package

Resource packages are supplementary to EIP bandwidth. Currently, shared data packages are available. You can purchase resource packages by referring to Resource Packages.