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Billing

GeminiDB allows you to pay only for what you use. There are no minimum fee requirements.

Billing Items

You are billed based on specifications and storage space of your instance. The total cost of an instance is the price of the instance specifications plus the cost of storage.

Table 1 Billing item description

Item

Description

DB instance
  • The instance specifications that you select.
  • The yearly/monthly or pay-per-use (hourly) billing mode.

Database storage

The amount of storage that you select.

(Optional) Backup storage

The backup data of GeminiDB instances is stored on OBS. After you purchase an instance, GeminiDB will provide additional backup storage of the same size as the storage space you purchased. For example, if you purchase an instance with 100 GB of storage space, you will obtain additional 100 GB of backup space free of charge. If your backup data exceeds 100 GB, the backup storage consumed in excess will be charged according to OBS billing rules.

Public network traffic

You will be billed for the bandwidth you use to access GeminiDB instances over a public network. You are not billed for traffic generated when accessing GeminiDB instances within your own private network.

Billing Mode

GeminiDB provides two billing modes: pay-per-use and yearly/monthly. You can switch between the two billing modes.

  • Yearly/Monthly: If your future usage is predictable, this billing mode is generally less expensive than pay-per-use. Longer subscriptions offer larger discounts.
  • Pay-per-use (hourly): You are only billed for how long you have actually used your instance. This mode can be a good option when future requirements are unpredictable. Pay-per-use instances are priced by the hour, but if an instance is used for less than one hour, you will be billed based on the actual duration.

Modifying Instance Configurations

  • You can change specifications of an instance based on service requirements. After the change, you will be billed based on the new specifications.
  • You can scale up storage by at least 1 GB each time. After that, you will be billed for the new storage. Storage cannot be scaled down.