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Cloud Enterprise Network:Billing overview

Last Updated:Nov 02, 2026

When you use Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) for network connectivity, you must first create a transit router in the CEN instance and then use the transit router to create network instance connections. Cloud Enterprise Network charges fees for these network instance connections, including:

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

  • For inter-region connections, inter-region bandwidth fee is charged.

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Billing item

Billing item

Billing rule

Calculation formula

Minimum billing cycle

Billing method

Connection fee

You are charged based on the number and usage duration of intra-region connections.

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

Usage duration refers to the period from when a network instance connection is created to when it is detached.

Unit price (USD/unit/hour) × Number of intra-region connections × Usage duration (hours)

1 hour.

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

Pay-as-you-go

Traffic processing fee

You are charged based on the traffic of the transit router to which intra-region connections Inbound.

Multicast traffic is not subject to this rule. For more information, see Multicast billing notes.

Unit price (USD/GB) × Traffic of the transit router to which intra-region connections Inbound (GB)

1 hour

Inter-region bandwidth fee

Select pay-by-data-transfer billing:

You are billed based on the inter-region traffic of each transit router Outbound, and the fees are settled by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) product.

Unit price (USD/GB) × inter-region traffic of the transit router Outbound (GB)

1 hour

Select pay-by-bandwidth billing:

You must first purchase a bandwidth package, and then allocate bandwidth for inter-region connections from the bandwidth package. Each bandwidth package is billed based on the bandwidth value and the subscription duration.

Unit price (USD/Mbps/month) × Bandwidth value (Mbps) × Subscription duration (month)

1 month

Subscription

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

  • Pay-by-data-transfer billing: suitable for workloads with large and frequent traffic fluctuations, where bandwidth usage cannot be predicted. Examples: temporary scaling, testing, video conferencing, and real-time gaming.

  • Pay-by-bandwidth: suitable for businesses that run for a long period of time and have relatively stable traffic peaks. Examples: file transfer, data migration, and data synchronization.

Connection fees and traffic processing fees are settled on an hourly basis at the top of each hour. If you delete a network instance connection at a time that is not on the hour, the fees for the billing cycle are still generated as usual until the end of the current hour. For example, if you delete a transit router connection at 10:35, the connection fee and traffic processing fee from 10:00 to 11:00 are still charged to your bill.

Pricing

The prices on this page are list prices. For actual purchase prices, refer to the product buy page.

Connection fee

Region

Unit price

China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Chengdu), China (Zhongwei), and China (Wuhan-Local Region)

USD 0.05 per instance per hour

Singapore, China (Hong Kong), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia (Johor), Indonesia (Jakarta), the Philippines (Manila), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Thailand (Bangkok), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), France (Paris), US (Virginia), US (Silicon Valley), Mexico, UAE (Dubai), Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)

0.06 USD/instance/hour

Brazil (São Paulo)

0.072 USD/instance/hour

Traffic processing fee

  • All regions worldwide except Brazil (São Paulo): USD 0.02/GB.

  • Brazil (São Paulo): USD 0.024/GB.

Inter-region bandwidth fee

Pay-by-traffic

When pay-by-traffic billing is selected for inter-region bandwidth, the fees are settled by CDT.

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 from Region A to Region B is the same as the price 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 from region A to region B is the same as the price 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

When you select pay-by-bandwidth:

  • The inter-region link type supports only "Gold".

  • Tiered pricing is adopted, and the total fee is the sum of the fees of all tiers. You can go to bandwidth plan purchase page to directly view the price of a target bandwidth value.

For the unit price of each tier, see the following table:

Interconnected regions

Tiered unit price of inter-region bandwidth (USD/Mbps/month)

(0~100Mbps]

(101~1000Mbps]

>1000Mbps

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

South America-Chinese mainland

159

97

84

South America-Asia Pacific

159

97

84

South America-North America

159

97

84

South America-Europe

159

97

84

South America-Middle East

159

97

84

Inter-region bandwidth tiered pricing example

Assume that you purchased a bandwidth plan instance whose areas to connect are Chinese mainland and Chinese mainland, with a peak bandwidth of 110 Mbps and a subscription duration of 1 month. The fee of the bandwidth plan is:

USD 34/Mbps/month × 100 Mbps × 1 month + USD 13/Mbps/month × 10 Mbps × 1 month = USD 3530

Note

From March 31, 2021, Alibaba Cloud offers a free trial of Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) bandwidth plans for first-time buyers who have Alibaba Cloud accounts. The free trial lasts for 1 month, and the free bandwidth is 5 Mbps or less. For more information about the promotion, see Free trial: subscription bandwidth plans for CEN.

Link type

Inter-region links support two types: "Gold" and "Platinum", which provide traffic transmission services at different service levels:

Link type

Service availability

Applicable business scenarios

Gold

99.95%

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

Platinum

99.995%

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

Billing examples

Example 1: Intra-region VPC interconnection

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As shown in the preceding figure, assume that you have created a transit router in the China (Hangzhou) region and connected two VPCs (VPC1 and VPC2) in the region through the transit router. Within one month, VPC1 sent 100 GB of traffic to VPC2 through the transit router, and VPC2 did not send data to VPC1. In this scenario, the fees are calculated as follows:

Connection fee:

  • 2 VPC connections, which are intra-region connections. The unit price of the connection fee is USD 0.05 per connection per hour (Chinese mainland)

  • Assume that one month has 30 days, that is, 30 days × 24 hours = 720 hours

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

Data processing fee:

  • Unit price of data processing fee USD 0.02/GB

  • The traffic that flows from VPC1 to Transit router is 100 GB, and the traffic that flows from VPC2 to Transit router is 0 GB

  • USD 0.02/GB×(100 GB+0 GB)=USD 2

Total for 1 month:

  • Connection fee USD 72

  • Data processing fee USD 2

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

Example 2: Inter-region VPC connectivity

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As shown in the preceding figure, assume that you have created two transit routers in one Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN), which are located in the China (Hangzhou) and China (Shanghai) regions, respectively. Each region contains one VPC (VPC1 and VPC2), and each VPC is attached to the transit router in the same region. The transit routers in the two regions are connected through an inter-region connection. Within one month, VPC1 sent 100 GB of traffic to VPC2, and VPC2 did not send data to VPC1. In this scenario, the fees are calculated as follows:

Connection fee:

  • The two VPC connections are intra-region connections, and the unit price of the connection fee is USD 0.05 per connection per hour (Chinese mainland)

  • Assume that a month has 30 days, that is, 30 days × 24 hours = 720 hours

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

Data processing fee:

  • Data processing fee unit price USD 0.02 per GB

  • The traffic that flows from VPC1 into Transit router 1 is 100 GB, and the traffic that flows from VPC2 into Transit router 2 is 0 GB

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

Inter-region bandwidth fee:

  • If you select the pay-by-data-transfer billing method and set the link type to Gold, the unit price of Inter-region data transfer is USD 0.072/GB (for connectivity within the Chinese mainland)

  • The inter-region traffic that flows from Transit router 1 to Transit router 2 is 100 GB, and the inter-region traffic that flows from Transit router 2 to Transit router 1 is 0 GB

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

Total for 1 month:

  • Connection fee USD 72

  • Data transfer fee USD 2

  • Inter-region bandwidth fee USD 7.2 (pay-by-traffic)

  • Total amount to pay: USD 72 + USD 2 + USD 7.2 = USD 81.2

Note

In the same scenario, if inter-region bandwidth is billed based on bandwidth, according to the unit price of bandwidth for communication between regions in the Chinese mainland USD 34/Mbps/month, assume that the bandwidth value of the bandwidth plan is 10 Mbps. In this case, the inter-region bandwidth fee is USD 34/Mbps/month × 10 Mbps = USD 340. Adding the connection fee and data transfer fee, the total for one month is: USD 72 + USD 2 + USD 340 = USD 414.

FAQ

  • Although a CCN connection is an intra-region connection, it can be created only by using a basic transit router, and no connection fee or data processing fee is charged.

  • For questions about cross-account, basic transit routers, and other related topics, see FAQ about billing.