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Updated on 2024-07-08 GMT+08:00
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Billing

VOD adopts postpayment for required resources.

  • Only packages of CN North-Beijing1 and CN North-Beijing4 can be used in both regions. Packages of regions other than CN North-Beijing1 and CN North-Beijing4 can be used only in their respective region. Purchase a package based on the region of the account.

Billing Items

VOD billing consists of media management, media processing, and content distribution. For details, see the following table. Billing items are settled every hour. For pricing details, see Product Pricing Details.

Table 1 Billing items

Category

Billing Item

Description

Payment Options

Media management

Storage space

You are charged for your actual storage usage, including the uploaded media files, thumbnails, and subtitles, as well as transcoded media files.

Postpayment for required resources

Media processing

Video transcoding

Billed based on the duration of the content you output

Postpayment for required resources

Audio transcoding

Billed based on the duration of the content you output

Postpayment for required resources

Audio extraction

Billed based on the duration of the content you extract

Postpayment for required resources

Packaging

Billed based on the duration of the content you output

Postpayment for required resources

Content distribution

Downstream Traffic

Billed based on the downstream traffic generated during audio or video playback

Postpayment for required resources

Billing Modes

VOD supports postpayment for required resources. In each billing cycle, the system calculates the fee based on the actual usage of each resource multiplied by the unit price, and then deducts the fee from your account balance.

The billing mode of distribution acceleration is by traffic, that is, by the downlink traffic actually used every day. The settlement is performed once every hour. After the current billing cycle (hour) ends, the usage in an hour is usually billed four hours later (subject to the system).

Expiration and Overdue Payment

  • Arrears: In pay-per-use mode, fees are deducted based on each billing item. If the account balance is insufficient, the system fails to deduct the fees of the previous billing cycle. As a result, your account is in arrears. A retention period will be granted. If you want to continue to use VOD, top up your account in the retention period. Huawei Cloud defines the retention period based on the customer tier. Go to the Basic Information page to view your customer tier. For details about how to handle service suspension due to arrears, see Retention Period.
  • Service expiration: Pay-per-use resources do not expire.