Pay-as-you-go is a postpaid billing method for ENS instances. Provision and release resources on demand without upfront purchase.
Usage notes
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Creating an instance reserves computing resources. You are billed for reserved resources even when they are idle.
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ENS supports two metering methods for pay-as-you-go instances: pay-by-daily-peak and pay-by-monthly-peak. To switch between them, contact your account manager.
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All pay-as-you-go resources in your account — bandwidth, instances, and cloud disks — share one billing cycle and metering method. If you select pay-by-monthly-95th-percentile-bandwidth for public bandwidth when you first create an instance, the monthly cycle applies to all existing and new pay-as-you-go resources, including NIC bandwidth charges.
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For billing rules for bare metal and heterogeneous computing instances, submit a ticket.
Billable items and pricing
Pay-as-you-go instances are billed for two items: edge vCPUs and edge memory. Prices vary by region.
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Billable regions and their edge node locations are listed in Node distribution.
Daily unit prices
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Unit price type |
Billable item |
Chinese mainland |
North America |
Europe |
Asia-Pacific 1 |
Asia-Pacific 2 |
Asia-Pacific 3 |
Middle East |
Africa |
South America |
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Daily unit price |
Edge vCPU Unit: USD per item per day |
0.67 |
0.87 |
0.87 |
1 |
1.07 |
1.13 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
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Edge memory Unit: USD/GB/day |
0.2046 |
0.2662 |
0.2662 |
0.3077 |
0.3277 |
0.3492 |
0.3692 |
0.3692 |
0.3692 |
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Monthly unit price |
Edge vCPU Unit: USD per item per month |
10 |
13 |
13 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
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Edge memory Unit: USD/GB/month |
3.0769 |
4 |
4 |
4.6154 |
4.9231 |
5.2308 |
5.5385 |
5.5385 |
5.5385 |
Pay-by-daily-peak
ENS samples total edge vCPUs and memory across your account every 5 minutes (288 data points per day). The highest value is the daily peak.
Billing method: Pay-as-you-go
Formula:
Fees for an instance of a day = Daily peak vCPUs x Daily vCPU unit price + Daily peak memory (GB) x Daily memory unit priceBilling cycle: Daily. Bills are generated and deducted after 00:00 the next day. Exact timing is system-determined.
Pay-by-monthly-peak
ENS samples total edge vCPUs and memory every 5 minutes (288 data points per day). The highest value is the daily peak. The highest daily peak in the month becomes the monthly peak.
Billing method: Pay-as-you-go
Formula:
Fees for an instance of a month = Monthly peak vCPUs x Monthly vCPU unit price + Monthly peak memory (GB) x Monthly memory unit price x Effective factorBilling cycle: Monthly. Bills are generated on the first day of the next month. Exact timing is system-determined.
Effective factor
The effective factor prorates the fee based on how many days in the month the instance was active.
Effective factor = Effective days / Total days in the monthEffective days is the number of days from instance creation to release, or to month-end if not released.
Examples (June 2024, 30 total days):
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Scenario |
Instance created |
Instance released |
Effective days |
Effective factor |
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Released mid-month |
June 5, 2024 |
June 25, 2024 |
21 |
- |
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Active all month |
June 5, 2024 |
Not released |
26 |
26/30 = 0.86666667 |