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Cloud Enterprise Network:Billing overview

Last Updated:Mar 20, 2026

To use Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN), you must first create a transit router (TR). Then, you can use the transit router to create connections between your network instances. CEN charges for these connections are as follows:

  • For intra-region connections, you are charged connection fees and traffic processing fees.

  • For inter-region connections, you are charged inter-region bandwidth fees.

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Billable items

Item

Billing rule

Formula

Minimum billing cycle

Billing method

Connection fee

Charged based on the number of intra-region connections and their usage duration.

Intra-region connections include VPC connections, ECR connections, VBR connections, and VPN connections.

Usage duration is the time from when a connection is created until it is uninstalled.

Unit price (USD per connection per hour) × number of intra-region connections × usage duration (hours)

1 hour.

If usage is less than 1 hour, it is billed as 1 hour.

Pay-as-you-go

Traffic processing fee

Charged based on traffic ingress to the transit router from intra-region connections.

Multicast traffic is not subject to this rule. For details, see Multicast billing.

Unit price (USD per GB) × traffic ingress to the transit router from intra-region connections (GB)

1 hour

Inter-region bandwidth fee

Pay-by-data-transfer:

Charged based on inter-region traffic egress from each transit router. Fees are settled by the Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) service.

Unit price (USD per GB) × inter-region traffic egress from the transit router (GB)

1 hour

Pay-by-bandwidth:

Purchase a bandwidth plan, then allocate bandwidth from the plan to your inter-region connection. Each bandwidth plan is billed based on its bandwidth value and subscription duration.

Unit price (USD per Mbps per month) × bandwidth value (Mbps) × subscription duration (months)

1 month

Subscription

How do I choose a billing method for inter-region bandwidth fees?

  • Pay-by-data-transfer: This billing method is ideal for workloads with frequent and unpredictable traffic peaks, such as temporary scaling, testing, video conferencing, and real-time gaming.

  • Pay-by-bandwidth: This billing method is ideal for stable, long-running workloads with predictable traffic, such as file transfer, data migration, and data synchronization.

Pricing

The prices listed in this topic are for reference. The actual price may vary. For final pricing, see the product purchase page.

Connection fee

  • Chinese mainland: USD 0.05 per connection per hour.

  • Outside the Chinese mainland: USD 0.06 per connection per hour.

Regions in the Chinese mainland include China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Chengdu), and China (Wuhan - Local Region).
Regions outside the Chinese mainland include Singapore, China (Hong Kong), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Thailand (Bangkok), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), US (Virginia), US (Silicon Valley), Mexico, and SAU (Riyadh - Partner Region).

Traffic processing fee

This fee is the same for all regions worldwide: USD 0.02 per GB.

Inter-region bandwidth fee

Pay-by-data-transfer

If you select the pay-by-data-transfer billing method for inter-region bandwidth, the fees are billed through the CDT service.

Service level: Gold

Inbound region

Outbound region

Chinese mainland

Asia Pacific

Europe

North America

South America

Middle East

Chinese mainland

USD 0.072/GB

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.80/GB

Asia Pacific

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.08/GB

USD 0.08/GB

USD 0.08/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

Europe

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.08/GB

USD 0.02/GB

USD 0.05/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

North America

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.08/GB

USD 0.05/GB

USD 0.02/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

South America

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

Middle East

USD 0.80/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

USD 0.38/GB

The price for data transfer from Region A to Region B is the same as the price for data transfer from Region B to Region A.

Service level: Platinum

Inbound region

Outbound region

Chinese mainland

Asia Pacific

Europe

North America

South America

Middle East

Chinese mainland

USD 0.108/GB

USD 1.20/GB

USD 1.20/GB

USD 1.20/GB

USD 1.20/GB

USD 1.20/GB

Asia Pacific

USD 1.20/GB

USD 0.12/GB

USD 0.12/GB

USD 0.12/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

Europe

USD 1.20/GB

USD 0.12/GB

USD 0.03/GB

USD 0.075/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

North America

USD 1.20/GB

USD 0.12/GB

USD 0.075/GB

USD 0.03/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

South America

USD 1.20/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

Middle East

USD 1.20/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

USD 0.57/GB

The price for data transfer from Region A to Region B is the same as the price for data transfer from Region B to Region A.
Note
  1. For a list of supported regions, see Supported regions.

  2. The prices on your bill are final.

Pay-by-bandwidth

If you choose the pay-by-bandwidth billing method:

  • Only the "Gold" link type is supported for inter-region connections.

  • Pricing uses a tiered model. The total cost is the sum of the fees for each tier. To view the pricing for your target bandwidth, go to the bandwidth plan purchase page.

The unit prices for each tier are shown in the following table.

Connected areas

Inter-region bandwidth tiered unit price (USD/Mbps/month)

(0–100 Mbps]

(101–1000 Mbps]

>1000 Mbps

Chinese mainland–Chinese mainland

34

13

8

Asia-Pacific–Asia-Pacific

28

19

16

Asia-Pacific–North America

72

43

37

Asia-Pacific–Europe

72

43

37

Asia-Pacific–Middle East

159

97

84

North America–North America

28

19

16

North America–Europe

72

43

37

North America–Middle East

159

97

84

Europe–Europe

28

19

16

Europe–Middle East

159

97

84

Chinese mainland–Asia-Pacific

132

83

74

Chinese mainland–North America

170

103

89

Chinese mainland–Europe

153

93

81

Chinese mainland–Middle East

159

97

84

Example: Tiered pricing for inter-region bandwidth

Assume that you purchase one bandwidth plan instance for connections between regions in the Chinese mainland, with a peak bandwidth of 110 Mbps and a subscription duration of one month. The cost is calculated as follows:

USD 34/Mbps/month × 100 Mbps × 1 month + USD 13/Mbps/month × 10 Mbps × 1 month = USD 3,530

Note

Starting from March 31, 2021, new Alibaba Cloud accounts are eligible for a one-month free trial of CEN bandwidth plans with up to 5 Mbps of bandwidth. For more information, see Free trial: subscription bandwidth plans for CEN.

Link types

Inter-region links support two service levels: "Gold" and "Platinum". These service levels offer different performance for traffic transmission:

Link type

Service availability

Applicable scenarios

Gold

99.95%

Workloads that are not sensitive to link quality, such as data synchronization and file transfer.

Platinum

99.995%

Workloads that are highly sensitive to jitter and latency and require high link quality, such as securities trading, online voice, video conferencing, and real-time gaming.

Billing examples

Example 1: Intra-region VPC connectivity

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As shown in the figure, assume you create a transit router in the China (Hangzhou) region to connect two VPCs in the same region (VPC1 and VPC2). Over one month, VPC1 sends 100 GB of traffic to VPC2 through the transit router, while VPC2 sends no data to VPC1. The fees are calculated as follows:

Connection fee:

  • The two VPC connections are intra-region connections. The unit price for each connection in the Chinese mainland is USD 0.05 per hour.

  • Assume that the month has 30 days: 30 days × 24 hours = 720 hours.

  • USD 0.05/connection/hour × 2 VPC connections × 720 hours = USD 72.

Traffic processing fee:

  • The unit price is USD 0.02 per GB.

  • Traffic from VPC1 to the transit router is 100 GB. Traffic from VPC2 to the transit router is 0 GB.

  • USD 0.02/GB × (100 GB + 0 GB) = USD 2.

Total for one month:

  • Connection fee: USD 72.

  • Traffic processing fee: USD 2.

  • Total payable: USD 72 + USD 2 = USD 74.

Example 2: Inter-region VPC connectivity

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As shown in the figure, assume you create two transit routers in one CEN instance—one in China (Hangzhou) and the other in China (Shanghai). Each region contains one VPC (VPC1 and VPC2)—and each VPC connects to the transit router in its region. The two transit routers connect through an inter-region connection. Over one month, VPC1 sends 100 GB of traffic to VPC2, and VPC2 sends no data to VPC1. Calculate the fees as follows:

Connection fee:

  • The two VPC connections are intra-region connections. The unit price for each connection in the Chinese mainland is USD 0.05 per hour.

  • Assume that the month has 30 days: 30 days × 24 hours = 720 hours.

  • USD 0.05/connection/hour × 2 VPC connections × 720 hours = USD 72.

Traffic processing fee:

  • The unit price is USD 0.02 per GB.

  • Traffic from VPC1 to transit router 1 is 100 GB. Traffic from VPC2 to transit router 2 is 0 GB.

  • USD 0.02/GB × (100 GB + 0 GB) = USD 2.

Inter-region bandwidth fee:

  • Assume that you use the pay-by-data-transfer billing method with the "Gold" link type. The unit price for inter-region traffic between regions in the Chinese mainland is USD 0.072 per GB.

  • The inter-region traffic from transit router 1 to transit router 2 is 100 GB, while the traffic from transit router 2 to transit router 1 is 0 GB.

  • USD 0.072/GB × (100 GB + 0 GB) = USD 7.2.

Total for one month:

  • Connection fee: USD 72.

  • Traffic processing fee: USD 2.

  • Inter-region bandwidth fee: USD 7.2 (pay-by-data-transfer).

  • Total payable: USD 72 + USD 2 + USD 7.2 = USD 81.2.

Note

In the same scenario, if you choose the pay-by-bandwidth billing method, the unit price for bandwidth for connections between regions in the Chinese mainland is USD 34/Mbps/month. If you purchase a 10 Mbps bandwidth plan, the inter-region bandwidth fee is USD 34/Mbps/month × 10 Mbps = USD 340. After you add the connection and traffic processing fees, the total fee for one month is USD 72 + USD 2 + USD 340 = USD 414.

FAQ

  • CCN connections are a type of intra-region connection that can be created only with Basic Edition transit routers. These connections do not incur connection or traffic processing fees.

  • For questions about cross-account billing and Basic Edition transit routers, see Billing FAQ.