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Data Transfer Plan:Purchase a data transfer plan

Last Updated:Jun 02, 2026

Data Transfer Plans are easy-to-use and cost-effective resource plans. After purchase, a data transfer plan takes effect immediately and automatically offsets the data transfer fees for multiple pay-by-traffic cloud services until the plan is depleted or expires.

Before you begin

Review the following before you purchase:

  • Each Alibaba Cloud main account supports up to 200 active data transfer plans. This quota cannot be increased, so choose a plan that fits your business requirements.

  • Covered regions vary by the selected area.

    Area and region mapping

    Data Transfer Plan Area

    Available In

    Chinese Mainland

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

    Excluded: China (Fuzhou - Local Region)

    China (Hong Kong)

    China (Hong Kong)

    Outside Chinese Mainland

    Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Thailand (Bangkok), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London)

  • A data transfer plan offsets data transfer fees for multiple pay-by-traffic products.

    Supported products and traffic types

    Product

    Traffic type

    Description

    ECS

    IPv4

    IPv4 traffic from static public IP addresses of Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances that are billed by data transfer.

    EIP

    IPv4 traffic from Elastic IPs (EIPs) that are billed by data transfer and bound to the following cloud resources (excluding EIPs of BGP Multi-ISP Pro):

    • ECS instances in a virtual private cloud (VPC)

    • Secondary elastic network interfaces (ENIs)

    • SLB instances, including the following:

      • Private-facing Classic Load Balancer (CLB) instances in a VPC

      • Application Load Balancer (ALB) instances

      • Network Load Balancer (NLB) instances

    • NAT Gateway instances

    • High-availability virtual IP addresses (HaVips)

    CLB

    IPv4 traffic from public IPs of public-facing CLB instances that are billed by data transfer.

    Internet Shared Bandwidth

    IPv4 traffic from Internet Shared Bandwidth instances that are billed data transfer. This does not include Data Transfer over BGP Pro Lines.

    IPv6 gateway

    IPv6

    Public IPv6 traffic from IPv6 Internet bandwidth that is billed by data transfer.

Purchase a data transfer plan

  1. Go to the data transfer plan purchase page.

  2. Configure the data transfer plan with the following parameters, and click Calculating.

    Parameter

    Description

    Size

    The plan specification.

    Available specifications vary by validity period. Check the purchase page for options.

    Plan

    The plan package.

    • China Mainland: Covers the Chinese mainland area.

    • Hong Kong: Covers the China (Hong Kong) region.

    • Overseas: Covers the overseas area.

    Expiry Date

    The validity period of the plan.

    • 1Month

    • 1Year

    Expired plans are not refundable. Unused data is cleared upon expiration and cannot be transferred.

    Quantity

    The number of plans to purchase.

Related topics

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