Elastic IP Address:Billing overview

Billing method

Metering method

Scenarios

Pay-as-you-go

Pay-by-data-transfer

• Scenarios in which traffic fluctuates, such as the gaming and video industries.

• Scenarios in which temporary traffic spikes are expected.

If you cannot estimate the traffic usage, we recommend that you select the pay-by-data-transfer metering method.

Pay-by-bandwidth

• Scenarios in which traffic is stable.

• Scenarios in which temporary traffic spikes are expected.

Subscription

Pay-by-bandwidth

• Scenarios in which the usage period of resources can be estimated.

• Scenarios in which traffic is stable.

• Scenarios that require long-term use of resources. (In these scenarios, the subscription billing method is more cost-effective.)

Fee

Description

References

Internet data transfer fee

• Bandwidth fee: You are charged based on the specified maximum bandwidth value, regardless of the actual data transfer.

  • If you use the subscription billing method, you are charged based on the specified maximum bandwidth and the subscription duration.

  • If you use the pay-as-you-go billing method and the pay-by-bandwidth metering method, you are charged based on the specified maximum bandwidth and the usage duration.

• Data transfer fee: If you use the pay-as-you-go billing method and the pay-by-data-transfer metering method, you are charged based on the data transfer over the Internet per hour.

• Subscription

• Internet data transfer fee

EIP configuration fee (not charged when specific conditions are met)

You are charged EIP configuration fees for pay-as-you-go EIPs. You are not charged an EIP configuration fee for an EIP only when the following conditions are met: The EIP is associated with an elastic container instance or an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance that resides in a virtual private cloud (VPC). The number of EIPs that your Alibaba Cloud account can own does not exceed 2,000.

EIP configuration fee

EIP association fee (not charged when specific conditions are met)

For example, if your account can own up to 20 EIPs, you can associate EIPs 100 times in each region within one calendar day free of charge. If the number of times is greater than 100, you are charged at USD 0.149 per time for the extra times. You are charged USD 0.149 for the 101th time that you associate an EIP. If you associate EIPs 110 times, you are charged USD 1.49 for the extra times.

The default quota of EIPs is changed from 20 to 30 on August 1, 2023. EIP association fees are charged based on the original quota 20 on August 1, 2023, in which case you can associate EIPs 100 times free of charge. Starting August 2, 2023, the new quota 30 takes effect, in which case you can associate EIPs 150 times free of charge.

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Billing cycle

Fee deduction time and bill generation time

Applicable fees

Hour

A bill is generated within 1 hour after the current billing cycle ends. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system.

• Internet data transfer fee: Data transfer fee

• EIP configuration fee: EIP configuration fees for pay-by-data-transfer EIPs

Day

A bill is generated in the early hours of the next day. The system determines the time when bills are generated.

• Internet data transfer fee: Bandwidth fee

• EIP configuration fee: EIP configuration fees for pay-by-bandwidth EIPs.

• EIP association fee

Month

A bill is generated on the first day of the following calendar month. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system.

Internet data transfer fee: Bandwidth fees for subscription EIPs