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