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Billed Items

Billing

There are yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes. Each one has different advantages and disadvantages. For details, see Table 1. To quickly learn about the pricing for EIP, see EIP Pricing Details.

Table 1 EIP billed items

Billed Item

Billed Item Description

Billing Mode

Formula

Unit Price

EIP bandwidth

Billed by bandwidth or traffic

  • If a yearly/monthly EIP is billed by bandwidth, the bandwidth will be billed.
  • If a pay-per-use EIP is billed by bandwidth, the bandwidth will be billed.
  • If a pay-per-use EIP is billed by traffic, the traffic will be billed.
  • If an EIP is added to a shared bandwidth, the shared bandwidth will be billed.

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 of EIP bandwidth, see EIP Pricing Details.

The unit price of a fixed bandwidth and whether tiered pricing is used vary by region. For details, see EIP Pricing Details.

EIP

If a pay-per-use EIP is billed by bandwidth, by traffic, or it is added to a shared bandwidth, there will be reservation price if the EIP is not bound to any instance.

NOTE:

If an EIP is bound to an instance, there will be no reservation price.

Pay-per-use

Billed at a fixed price per hour

The EIP reservation price varies by region. For details, see EIP Pricing Details.

Billing Examples

Suppose you purchased an EIP billed by bandwidth of 6 Mbit/s on April 18, 2023, 08:45:00, bound the EIP to an instance on April 18, 2023, 09:45:00, unbound the EIP from the instance on April 19, 2023, 06:45:00, and released the EIP on April 19, 2023, 08:55:00.

The EIP reservation price is $0.009 USD per hour. Figure 1 shows how to calculate the hourly bandwidth price in this example. The price for the bandwidth of 6 Mbit/s is $0.084 USD per hour.
Figure 1 Hourly price of an EIP billed by bandwidth

Table 2 shows the calculation details. The total price is $2.0585 USD.

Table 2 Price details of the EIP billed by bandwidth

Date

Billing Duration

Price (Bandwidth+ EIP)

Total Price (USD)

2023/04/18

60 minutes

2023/04/18 08:45:00 - 2023/04/18 09:45:00
  • EIP: 60/60 x 0.009 = 0.009
  • Bandwidth: 60/60 x 0.084 = 0.084

0.009 + 0.084 + 0 + 1.197 = 1.29

855 minutes

2023/04/18 09:45:00 - 2023/04/19 00:00:00
  • EIP: 0
  • Bandwidth: 855/60 x 0.084 = 1.197

2023/04/19

405 minutes

2023/04/19 00:00:00 - 2023/04/19 06:45:00
  • EIP: 0
  • Bandwidth: 405/60 x 0.084 = 0.567

0 + 0.567 + 0.0195 + 0.182 = 0.7685

130 minutes

2023/04/19 06:45:00 - 2023/04/19 08:55:00
  • EIP: 130/60 x 0.009 = 0.0195
  • Bandwidth: 130/60 x 0.084 = 0.182
  • The prices are just examples. The actual prices are those displayed on EIP Pricing Details.
  • If an EIP billed by traffic uses a dedicated bandwidth, only the bandwidth used in the outbound direction will be billed.

Reference

For billing examples of each billing item in yearly/monthly mode, see Yearly/Monthly Billing.

For billing examples of each billing item in pay-per-use mode, see Pay-per-Use Billing.