1. Billing methods
Public Zone supports the following two billing methods:
Subscription: Public Zone instances are prepaid on a subscription basis.
Pay-as-you-go: Advanced services such as Traffic Analysis are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
2. Billable items
1. Public Zone (subscription)
For instructions on how to purchase and attach domain names, see Purchase and attach domain names.
Plan 1: Personal Edition + DNS Security Protection (Optional)
Personal Edition can be purchased with optional DNS Security Protection. The billing formula is as follows: Total fee = (Unit price of Personal Edition + Unit price of DNS Security Protection) × Number of domain names
Billable item | Price | Description |
| 7 USD/domain name/year | Personal Edition: 7 USD/domain name/year Basic Protection: 86 USD/domain name/year Full Protection: 429 USD/domain name/year |
| 93 USD/domain name/year | |
| 436 USD/domain name/year |
Plan 2: Enterprise Ultimate Edition + DNS Security Protection (Required)
Enterprise Ultimate Edition requires DNS Security Protection. The billing formula is as follows: Total fee = (Unit price of Enterprise Ultimate Edition + Unit price of DNS Security Protection) × Number of domain names
Billable item | Price | Description |
| 167 USD/domain name/year | Enterprise Ultimate Edition: 81 USD/domain name/year Basic Protection: 86 USD/domain name/year Full Protection: 429 USD/domain name/year |
| 510 USD/domain name/year |
Plan 3: Exclusive Edition
Exclusive Edition includes Full DNS Protection by default. The billing formula is as follows: Total fee = Unit price of Exclusive Edition × Number of domain names
Billable item | Price |
| 4287 USD/domain name/year |
Expiration
For more information about instance expiration and renewal, see Instance expiration and renewal.
2. Traffic Analysis
Feature | Price | Description |
Traffic Analysis | 0.03 USD/10,000 entries | Billing for Traffic Analysis is based on the number of authoritative resolution log entries and is settled daily. To use this service, enable or disable traffic analysis for your domain names. |
Billing example:
Assume that Account A processes 1 million authoritative log analysis entries for its domain names in a single day.
The total fee is calculated as follows: 3 USD = 1 million entries × 0.03 USD/10,000 entries.
Purchase a data transfer plan for Traffic Analysis
If your domain names receive a high volume of DNS queries, you can purchase a data transfer plan for DNS traffic analysis to cover your pay-as-you-go items. The data transfer plan takes effect immediately after purchase and is valid for one year. During the validity period, the plan is used to offset your pay-as-you-go bills. Any unused resources in the plan automatically expire at the end of the validity period. The billing rules for the data transfer plan are as follows:
Plan size (10,000 queries) | Validity period (months) | Plan price | Unit price per 10,000 entries |
1000 | 12 | 21 USD | 0.021 USD |
10000 | 12 | 182 USD | 0.0182 USD |
100000 | 12 | 1680 USD | 0.0168 USD |
1000000 | 12 | 14000 USD | 0.014 USD |
Traffic Analysis is billed daily. If you purchase a data transfer plan during a billing cycle, the fees are automatically deducted from the plan's quota when the bill is generated.
A data transfer plan cannot be used to offset fees for a billing cycle if the plan is purchased after the bill for that cycle has been generated. The plan can only be used to offset fees in the next billing cycle.
After the quota of the resource plan is exhausted, additional queries are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Overdue payments
Alibaba Cloud DNS offers service suspension protection. This feature lets you continue using Alibaba Cloud services for a specific period or within a certain credit limit after a payment becomes overdue. Your existing pay-as-you-go services, purchased resource plans, and subscription resources can be used normally. The service suspension process starts only if your usage exceeds the protection scope. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go service suspension protection.