Updated on 2025-09-04 GMT+08:00

Billing Items

Billing

You will be billed for instance specifications, storage space, backup space, and EIP bandwidths. For details, see Table 1.

The billed items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

Table 1 Billing Items of a GeminiDB Cassandra Instance

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Formula

* Specifications

Billed by instance specifications, including vCPUs and memory. Computing and storage capabilities vary by the number of vCPUs and memory size.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Unit price x Required duration

For details about the unit price, see Cluster CPU/Memory on Product Pricing Details.

* Storage space

Billed based on unified standards.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Unit price x Storage space x Required duration

For details about the unit price, see Storage Space on Product Pricing Details.

Backup space

Billed based on unified standards.

Pay-per-use

Unit price x Billed backup space x Required duration

For details about the unit price, see Backup Storage Space on Product Pricing Details.

NOTE:

The billing duration indicates how long the storage exceeding a free quota was used.

(Optional) Cross-region backup

Billed based on unified standards.

Pay-per-use

Storage space unit price (CNY0.0009/GB/hour) x Storage capacity x Required duration

Billed based on unified standards.

Billed by storage capacity

Unit price of backup traffic across regions (CNY0.5/GB) x Storage capacity

Public network traffic

An EIP is required if an instance needs to access the Internet.

Billing factors: bandwidth, traffic, and IP reservation

  • EIP for a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Cassandra instance: billed by bandwidth.
  • EIP for a pay-per-use instance: billed by bandwidth, traffic, or shared bandwidth. You are also billed for IP reservation.

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.

  • 0 Mbit/s to 5 Mbit/s (included): billed at a fixed unit price per Mbit/s.
  • Greater than 5 Mbit/s: billed at a different price per Mbit/s.

For details about the unit price, see Bandwidth Price on Product Pricing Details or Product Pricing Details.

Billing Examples

Assume that you bought a three-node GeminiDB Cassandra instance with 2 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory, 100 GB of storage, 110 GB (100 GB for free) of backup storage for one month at 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023 and renewed the subscription for one more month before it expired. The billing items include instance specifications (vCPUs, memory, and nodes), storage, backup storage, and EIP bandwidth.

  • The first billing cycle is from 15:50:04 on March 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023.
  • The second billing cycle is from 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 8, 2023.
    • From 23:59:59 on April 8, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 1, 2023, 50 GB of free backup storage was used.
    • From 23:59:59 on May 1, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 8, 2023, another 10 GB of backup storage was billed for 168 hours.

Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.

The prices in the following figure are for reference only. For the actual prices, see GeminiDB Price Calculator.

Figure 1 Total price for a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Cassandra instance

For more billing examples of a pay-per-use GeminiDB Cassandra instance, see Billing Examples.