E-HPC usage incurs two separate charges: fees for the underlying cloud resources your clusters consume, and an additional management fee that applies when your total core count in a region exceeds 1,000.
Additional fees
E-HPC cluster management is included at no extra cost—creating and deleting elastic nodes, calling API operations, monitoring cluster metrics, configuring alerts, and running O&M tools and automated O&M. The additional fee applies only when all clusters in a single region together exceed 1,000 cores.
The 1,000-core threshold is evaluated per region independently. Cores in different regions are not combined.
Billing
| Chinese mainland | Outside the Chinese mainland | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing rule | Charged for cores above 1,000 | Charged for cores above 1,000 |
| Unit price | USD 0.003/core/hour | USD 0.004/core/hour |
| Formula | (Total cores − 1,000) × 0.003 × hours | (Total cores − 1,000) × 0.004 × hours |
| Billing method | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Billing cycle | Per second (hourly price ÷ 3,600) | |
| Settlement cycle | Hourly | |
Billing examples
Prices in these examples are for reference only. Your actual E-HPC bill takes precedence.
Example 1: Cluster at the threshold
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Cluster | 1 cluster, 1,000 cores in Singapore |
| Cores above threshold | 1,000 − 1,000 = 0 |
| Hourly bill | USD 0 |
No fee applies because the total cores in the region do not exceed 1,000.
Example 2: Multiple clusters in one region (Chinese mainland)
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Clusters | Cluster A: 2,000 cores; Cluster B: 500 cores — both in China (Qingdao) |
| Total cores | 2,500 |
| Cores above threshold | 2,500 − 1,000 = 1,500 |
| Calculation | 1,500 × USD 0.003/core/hour |
| Hourly bill | USD 4.5 |
Example 3: Multiple clusters in one region (outside the Chinese mainland)
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Clusters | Cluster A: 2,000 cores; Cluster B: 500 cores — both in Singapore |
| Total cores | 2,500 |
| Cores above threshold | 2,500 − 1,000 = 1,500 |
| Calculation | 1,500 × USD 0.004/core/hour |
| Hourly bill | USD 6 |
Example 4: Clusters in two regions
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Clusters | Cluster A: 2,000 cores in China (Qingdao); Cluster B: 200 cores in Singapore |
| China (Qingdao) total | 2,000 cores — 1,000 excess cores |
| Singapore total | 200 cores — below the 1,000-core threshold |
| China (Qingdao) calculation | (2,000 − 1,000) × USD 0.003/core/hour = USD 3 |
| Singapore calculation | USD 0 |
| Hourly bill | USD 3 |
Regions are billed independently, so the Singapore cluster incurs no additional fee.
Resources of other cloud services
In addition to the E-HPC management fee, you are billed separately for the underlying cloud resources your clusters use.
| Cloud service | How it's used | Pricing | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic Compute Service (ECS) | E-HPC clusters use ECS instances as nodes. When you create a cluster, an ECS instance that meets your requirements is automatically purchased for the cluster. | ECS billing overview | |
| File Storage NAS | E-HPC clusters use NAS file systems as shared storage. Purchase a NAS file system before creating a cluster. | Billing of general-purpose NAS file systems | |
| Elastic IP Address (EIP) | EIPs enable internet access. In Standard mode, an EIP is bound to the logon node. In Tiny mode, an EIP is bound to the management node. Billing is based on traffic, with a bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s. | EIP billing overview |