This topic describes the billing of Cloud Parallel File Storage (CPFS) for Lingjun.
Billing method
CPFS for Lingjun supports only the pay-as-you-go billing method.
Billable item
The following figure shows the billable item of CPFS for Lingjun.
Pricing
The unit price for the storage of CPFS for Lingjun file systems is USD 0.244 per GiB-month.
Billing cycle
You are charged for CPFS file systems based on the purchased capacity on an hourly basis. A bill is generated about 3 to 4 hours after each billing cycle. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system. For example, you are billed at 09:30:00 for the fees that are generated from 08:00:00 to 09:00:00 of the same day.
The bill that you receive at 09:30:00 may include only the fees that are generated from 05:30:00 to 06:30:00 because of system latency.
A bill is generated 3 to 4 hours after a billing cycle ends.
Billing formula
Fees for CPFS for Lingjun are calculated on an hourly basis by using the following formula: Fees = Purchased capacity × Unit price per hour.
The unit price for the storage of CPFS for Lingjun file systems is the price per GiB-month. However, the fees for pay-as-you-go CPFS for Lingjun file systems are calculated by using the following formula: Purchased capacity × Unit price per hour. Therefore, when you calculate the actual storage fees, you must convert the price per GiB-month to the price per GiB-hour. For example, the unit price for storage of the 400 MB/s/TiB baseline type is USD 0.244 per GiB-month. In this case, the unit price per hour is 0.244/30/24 = USD 0.00033889 per GiB-hour.