Alibaba Cloud Edge Node Service (ENS) charges bandwidth fees by day or month. This topic describes the billing methods and the prices provided by Internet service providers (ISPs).
Pricing for the Chinese mainland
ENS bandwidth is billed based on edge nodes for each user.
The bandwidth usage of an edge node in each billing cycle is the larger value of the inbound bandwidth and outbound bandwidth of all instances in the node. The bandwidth usage of all edge nodes is used for billing.
The inbound and outbound accesses from or to public IP addresses are monitored and billed.
ISP | Region | Single-ISP daily peak bandwidth (USD/Mbit/s/day) | Single-ISP monthly fourth peak bandwidth (USD/Mbit/s/month) | Single-ISP 95th monthly percentile bandwidth (USD/Mbit/s/month) |
China Telecom and China Unicom | Beijing, Shanghai, and prefecture-level cities in Guangdong | 0.28 | 7.04 | 7.04 |
Regional centers | 0.14 | 3.52 | 3.52 | |
Other cities | 0.11 | 2.82 | 2.82 | |
China Mobile | Beijing, Shanghai, and prefecture-level cities in Guangdong | 0.17 | 4.23 | 4.23 |
Regional centers | 0.08 | 2.11 | 2.11 | |
Other cities | 0.07 | 1.69 | 1.69 |
Regional centers include provincial capitals excluding Guangzhou, municipalities excluding Beijing and Shanghai, and sub-provincial cities that are not provincial capitals, such as Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen, and Ningbo.
Pricing for regions outside the Chinese mainland
Region | Country | Daily bandwidth (USD/Mbit/s/day) | Monthly bandwidth (USD/Mbit/s/month) |
North America | United States | 0.210 | 6.489 |
Europe | Germany and Switzerland | 0.210 | 6.489 |
Asia Pacific 1 | Hong Kong (China), Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and Philippines | 0.310 | 14.214 |
Asia Pacific 2 | Indonesia | 0.420 | 17.304 |
Middle East | Türkiye | 0.860 | 26.574 |
South America | Brazil | 0.770 | 23.793 |
Fourth peak bandwidth of each month
The fourth peak bandwidth of each month is billed based on the following rules:
The fourth peak bandwidth in each month is billed by calendar month. In a calendar month, every day is sampled 288 times at five-minute intervals for bandwidth, and the largest value is used as the peak bandwidth of the day. The fourth highest daily peak bandwidth of all days in a month is used as the bandwidth of the month for billing.
Billing method: pay-as-you-go.
Billing cycle: a calendar month.
Valid days: the number of days from the date when the fourth bandwidth metering method takes effect to the last date of the month. For example, if the fourth bandwidth billing method took effect on November 5, 2019, the bill for November 2019 contains 26 valid days.
Effective factor = Number of valid days in a calendar month/Total number of days in the calendar month If the bill for November 2019 covers 26 valid days and the total number of days in November 2019 is 30, the effective factor of the month is 0.86666667, which is calculated based on the following formula: 26/30 = 0.86666667.
Final payment: To calculate the final fee, multiply the fee calculated based on the billing rule by the effective factor.
Daily peak bandwidth
Daily peak bandwidth is billed based on the following rules:
Daily peak bandwidth is billed on a daily basis. The bandwidth usage of all instances of each edge node is calculated every five minutes. The maximum value of the 288 results in a day is used for billing.
Billing method: pay-as-you-go.
Billing cycle: a day.
Final payment: To calculate the final fee, multiply the maximum value calculated based on the billing rules by the price of single-ISP peak bandwidth of each day.
Monthly 95th percentile bandwidth
Monthly 95th percentile bandwidth is billed based on the following rules:
Monthly 95th percentile bandwidth is billed by calendar month. In a calendar month, every day is sampled 288 times at five-minute intervals for bandwidth. The largest value is used as the peak bandwidth of the day. There are N largest daily values in a month, and the N values are arranged in descending order. The top M values are removed, where M = N * 0.05 and is rounded down. The (M+1)th value is the monthly 95th percentile bandwidth.
Billing method: pay-as-you-go.
Billing cycle: a calendar month.
Valid days: the number of days from the date when the 95th percentile bandwidth metering method takes effect to the last date of the month. For example, if the 95th percentile bandwidth metering method took effect on November 5, 2019, the bill for November 2019 contains 26 valid days.
Effective factor = Number of valid days in a calendar month/Total number of days in the calendar month If the bill for November 2019 covers 26 valid days and the total number of days in November 2019 is 30, the effective factor of the month is 0.86666667, which is calculated based on the following formula: 26/30 = 0.86666667.
Final payment: To calculate the final fee, multiply the fee calculated based on the billing rule by the effective factor.
Usage notes
The bill for the current billing cycle is issued on the first day of the next calendar month.
For example, the bill for February from 00:00:00 on 2017-02-01 to 23:59:59 on 2017-02-28 was generated on March 1, 2017.
After a bill is generated, fees are automatically deducted from your account balance. Make sure that you have sufficient balance in your account to prevent overdue payments.
For information about the billing rules for bare metal and heterogeneous computing, submit a ticket.