This topic describes the billing methods and billable items for Public Zone.
Billing
Public Zone supports the following two billing methods:
Public Zone (Subscription): A subscription-based plan. Purchase a plan to use the global resolution features of the Public Zone paid edition.
Alibaba Cloud DNS (Pay-as-you-go): A pay-as-you-go service. After activation, you can use advanced features such as Public Zone traffic analysis.
Billable items
Public Zone (Subscription)
To use the Public Zone paid edition, you must purchase Hosted Public Zones (Subscription). For the differences between the editions, see the edition comparison.
Billable item | Edition | Price | Description |
Hosted Public Zone | Personal | 7 USD/year | Billing formula:
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Enterprise Ultimate | 81 USD/year | ||
DNS protection | Basic | 86 USD/year | Billing formula:
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Advanced | 429 USD/year |
Overall billing formula: Instance fee = Unit price of the instance edition × Number of primary domain names + Unit price of protection edition × Number of primary domain names
Billing example:
Account A purchases a one-year Hosted Public Zone with the following configuration: Enterprise Ultimate Edition, Basic protection, and 15 domain names.
The total fee is USD 2,505 = USD 81 × 15 + USD 86 × 15.
Expiration
Public Zone traffic analysis
To use Public Zone traffic analysis, you must first activate Alibaba Cloud DNS (Pay-as-you-go).
Feature | Price | Description |
Public Zone traffic analysis | 0.03 USD/10,000 entries | Public Zone traffic analysis is billed by resolution log entries and is settled daily. To use this service, you must enable or disable traffic analysis for your domain names. |
Billing formula: DNS traffic analysis fee = Number of log entries × Unit price of traffic analysis
Billing example:
The total number of log entries for the domain names in Account A on a given day is 1 million.
The total fee is USD 3 = 1 million entries × USD 0.03 per 10,000 entries.
Data transfer plan of Public Zone traffic analysis
If you have a high volume of DNS queries, purchase Traffic Analysis (Data Transfer Plan) for your pay-as-you-go projects. The data transfer plan takes effect immediately after purchase and is valid for one year. During this period, the plan covers your pay-as-you-go bills. Any unused traffic in the plan automatically expires at the end of the validity period. The specific billing rules for the data transfer plan are as follows:
Plan size (10,000 queries) | Validity period (months) | Price | Unit price per 10,000 queries |
1,000 | 12 | 21 USD | 0.021 USD |
10,000 | 12 | 182 USD | 0.0182 USD |
100,000 | 12 | 1,680 USD | 0.0168 USD |
1,000,000 | 12 | 14,000 USD | 0.014 USD |
Public Zone traffic analysis is billed daily. If you have an active data transfer plan, charges are automatically deducted from the quota when the daily bill is generated.
If a bill has already been generated for the previous billing cycle, a data transfer plan purchased afterward cannot be used to offset the fees for that cycle. It can only be used to offset fees in the next billing cycle.
After the quota of the data transfer plan is used up, any additional queries are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Overdue payments
Alibaba Cloud DNS provides service suspension protection, which lets you continue using services within a specific credit limit or for a certain period, including existing pay-as-you-go services, resource plans, and subscription resources. Service suspension is initiated only when your usage exceeds the protection scope. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go service suspension protection.