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About Billing

WAF instances can be billed monthly or on a pay-per-use basis, which is postpaid.

Billing Items

Figure 1 WAF billing modes
Table 1 Billing items

Mode

Billing Mode

Billing Item

Billing Description

Cloud mode

Pay-per-use
  • Number of domains
  • Number of requests
  • Number of domain names: Billed on an hourly basis. Once a domain name is added during the billing period, it will be billed no matter when it is deleted.
  • Number of requests: Billed on a monthly basis.

Dedicated mode

Pay-per-use

Number of instances

Billed for what you use

Monthly

Number of instances

You will be billed based on how many instances you apply for and what instance specifications you select.

Billing Modes

  • Monthly billing: The longer you use the service, the more money you save. You will be billed based on how many instances you apply for and what instance specifications you select.
  • Pay-per-use billing: you can enable or disable an instance anytime you want.
    • For a pay-per-use cloud WAF instance, you are billed for the number of added domain names and number of handled requests.
    • For a pay-per-use dedicated WAF instance, you are billed for the required duration (accurate to second), which starts when the instance is created and ends when the instance is deleted.

FAQs

For more billing FAQs, see WAF FAQs.

Parent topic: Introduction