This topic describes the billable items of Cloud-native API Gateway instances and networks and the pricing of each item. This helps you understand and calculate the fees that may be incurred when you use Cloud-native API Gateway.
Billing methods
Cloud-native API Gateway supports the following billing methods:
Pay-as-you-go: The billing duration is measured in hours and rounded up to the next hour. Fees are calculated every hour and a bill is generated at an interval of 24 hours. Fees are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account. The actual time of bill generation shall prevail.
Subscription: The billing duration is measured in months. A duration of one year is calculated as 12 months. Fees are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account. The actual time of bill generation shall prevail.
Billable items
The prices provided in this topic are for reference only. The actual prices on the buy pages shall prevail.
The billing of Cloud-native API Gateway consists of the gateway instance fee, data processing fee, and Internet traffic fee.
Gateway instance fee
Gateway instances support the pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods. Instances come with built-in Server Load Balancers (SLBs), so you do not need to separately purchase an SLB.
For more information about how to select a gateway instance specification, see Capacities.
Region | Instance type | Pay-as-you-go unit price (USD/hour) | Subscription unit price (USD/month) |
Chinese mainland | apigw.dev.x1 | 0.124 | 63 |
apigw.small.x1 | 0.291 | 147 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 0.557 | 281 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 1.054 | 531 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 2.109 | 1,063 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 4.154 | 2,093 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 6.198 | 3,124 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 8.242 | 4,154 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 16.42 | 8,276 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 24.598 | 12,397 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 32.775 | 16,519 | |
China (Hong Kong) | apigw.dev.x1 | 0.186 | 94 |
apigw.small.x1 | 0.437 | 220 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 0.835 | 421 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 1.581 | 796 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 3.164 | 1,595 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 6.23 | 3,140 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 9.297 | 4,686 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 12.364 | 6,231 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 24.63 | 12,413 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 36.897 | 18,596 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 49.163 | 24,778 | |
Singapore | apigw.dev.x1 | 0.171 | 86 |
apigw.small.x1 | 0.402 | 202 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 0.768 | 387 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 1.454 | 733 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 2.911 | 1,467 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 5.732 | 2,889 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 8.553 | 4,311 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 11.375 | 5,733 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 22.66 | 11,420 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 33.945 | 17,108 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 45.23 | 22,796 | |
US (Virginia) | apigw.dev.x1 | 0.149 | 75 |
apigw.small.x1 | 0.349 | 176 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 0.668 | 337 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 1.264 | 637 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 2.531 | 1,276 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 4.984 | 2,512 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 7.437 | 3,749 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 9.891 | 4,985 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 19.704 | 9,931 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 29.517 | 14,877 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 39.33 | 19,823 |
Billing formulas:
Pay-as-you-go: Fee = Unit price of an instance type x Running duration in hours.
Example: If you run an apigw.small.x1 instance for 5 hours in a Chinese mainland region, the fee is 0.291 x 5 = USD 1.455.
Subscription: Fees = Unit price of an instance type x Subscription duration in months.
Example: If you subscribe to an apigw.small.x1 instance for 1 year in a Chinese mainland region, the fee is 147 x 12 = USD 1,764.
Data processing fee
When you create a gateway instance, you can select the following network types: Internet, VPC, and Internet + VPC. The amounts of data processed over different networks are separately billed. The amount of processed data is the sum of processed requests and processed responses.
Network type | Unit price (USD/GB/hour) |
Internet | 0.005 |
VPC | 0.007 |
Billing formulas
Internet: Fee per hour = Unit price x Amount of data processed.
Example: If you use a gateway instance for 2 hours to process 5 GB of data in the first hour and 10 GB of data in the second hour, the total fee is 0.005 x 5 + 0.005 x 10 = USD 0.075.
VPC: Fee per hour = Unit price x Amount of data processed.
Example: If you use a gateway instance for 2 hours to process 5 GB of data in the first hour and 10 GB of data in the second hour, the total fee is 0.007 x 5 + 0.007 x 10 = USD 0.105.
Internet traffic fee
Internet traffic fees are charged and billed by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT). For more information, see Internet data transfers.