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ApsaraVideo Live:Billing of DRM encryption

Last Updated:Dec 26, 2023

ApsaraVideo Live supports Widevine and FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) encryption. If you use DRM encryption, ApsaraVideo Live charges you based on the number of times a device requests a Widevine or FairPlay streaming license to play a DRM-encrypted video on a day. This topic describes the billing rules of DRM encryption.

Pricing

Note

To view the final prices, visit the ApsaraVideo Live pricing page.

DRM encryption is implemented based on transcoding. The fees for using DRM encryption are included in the transcoding fees. For more information, see Billing of live stream transcoding.

The DRM encryption feature is available to only live centers in the China (Shanghai) and Singapore regions. ApsaraVideo Live charges you based on the number of times a device requests a Widevine or FairPlay streaming license to play a DRM-encrypted video on a day. The following table lists the unit prices for DRM encryption.

Region

Unit price (USD per time)

China (Shanghai)

0.0012

Singapore

0.0015

Billing rules

Item

Description

Billing policy

You are charged based on the number of times a device requests a Widevine or FairPlay streaming license to play a DRM-encrypted video.

Billing cycle

You are charged on a daily basis. The bills of a day are generated within 1 hour after 00:00 on the following day. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system. Fees are automatically deducted from your Alibaba Cloud account after bills are generated.

Billing method

You are charged based on the pay-as-you-go billing method.

Billing example

Scenario: You use an Alibaba Cloud account that is registered on the International site (alibabacloud.com) to enable DRM encryption in the live center of the Singapore region. From 16:00 to 17:00 on June 18, 100 requests for a Widevine license and 200 requests for a FairPlay streaming license are sent.

Pricing: As shown in the Pricing section, the unit price of DRM encryption in the live center of the Singapore region is USD 0.0015 per time.

Fees of DRM encryption from 16:00 to 17:00 on June 18: (100 + 200) × USD 0.0015 = USD 0.45. The bill is generated after 00:00 on June 19, and the fees are automatically deducted.