Updated on 2025-08-01 GMT+08:00

Billing Items

Billing

You will be billed for service edition and extended package (added EIP protection capacity, added peak traffic protection capacity, and added VPCs). For details, see Table 1.

To quickly learn about the price of CFW, see CFW Pricing Details.

Table 1 CFW billing items

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Formula

Edition

Different editions provide different functions.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

  • Yearly/Monthly: Service edition x Required duration
  • Pay-per-use: Service edition x Required duration

Extended package

Protected EIPs at the Internet border

If the protection capacity in the package cannot meet your requirements, you can purchase an extended package.

Yearly/Monthly

Unit price of the extended package x Number of extended packages x Required duration

Peak protection traffic at the Internet border

Number of protected VPCs (calculated based on the actual VPC bandwidth traffic. Adding a protected VPC means to increase the inter-VPC protection bandwidth by 200 Mbit/s).

Used traffic

Billed by the traffic usage

Pay-per-use

Used traffic (GB) x Unit traffic price

If you configure advanced settings, such as Enterprise Router (ER) and Log Tank Service (LTS), you need to also pay for these services. For details, see Table 2.

Table 2 Billing items for advanced settings

Billing Item

Description

Enterprise Router (ER)

If you need to protect inter-VPC traffic or Direct Connect traffic, use Enterprise Router to divert traffic.

For details, see Enterprise Router Pricing Details.

Log Tank Service (LTS)

If you need to store logs, use LTS to store logs for 1 to 365 days.

For details, see LTS Pricing Details.

SMN

Configure the notification receiving mode (such as email or SMS) for Simple Message Notification (SMN) service so that you can receive alarm notifications in a timely manner.

For details, see SMN Pricing Details.

Billing Examples

Suppose you purchased a one-month CFW subscription on June 30, 2023, 15:50:04 (edition: professional; extended package: one added EIP, 5 Mbit/s peak protection traffic, and one added VPC). Billing resources include the professional edition and extended package (added EIPs, added peak traffic protection capacity, and added VPCs). Your subscription is one month and you manually renew the subscription for another month before the subscription expires. The billing details are as follows:
  • The first billing period is from 15:50:04 on June 30, 2023 to 23:59:59 on July 30, 2023.
  • The second billing period is from 00:00:00 on July 31, 2023 to 23:59:59 on Aug. 30, 2023.

Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.

  • The prices in the figure are only for reference. For details, see CFW Pricing Details.
  • The peak protection traffic is purchased and billed in 5 Mbit/s increments, for example, 5, 10, or 15 Mbit/s.
Figure 1 Total price for a yearly/monthly CFW

For pay-per-use billing examples, see Billing Examples.