This topic describes the resources and billable items of EventBridge to help you better understand its billing.
EventBridge is officially available for commercial use on June 3, 2025 on the China site. For information about the date on which EventBridge will be officially available for commercial use on the international site, see the announcement on the international site.
Resources
Event buses
Event buses are divided into the system event bus and custom event buses. For more information, see Overview.
System event bus: a built-in event bus that is automatically created by the system to receive events from Alibaba Cloud services. You cannot modify the system event bus.
Custom event bus: an event bus that is created and managed by yourself. You are charged for custom event buses. For more information, see Billing of event buses.
Event streams
An event stream is an end-to-end streaming event channel. For more information, see Overview. You are charged for event streams based on the pay-by-event or pay-by-CU metering method. For more information, see Billing of event streams.
Billable items
The following table describes the billable items of each resource in EventBridge.
Unit prices of cross-area data transfer
Destination area | ||||||
Source area | The Chinese mainland | Asia Pacific | Europe | North America | South America | Middle East |
The Chinese mainland | CNY 0.72 per GB | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 8.4 per GB |
Asia Pacific | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 0.788 per GB | CNY 0.788 per GB | CNY 0.788 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB |
Europe | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 0.788 per GB | CNY 0.197 per GB | CNY 0.525 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB |
North America | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 0.788 per GB | CNY 0.525 per GB | CNY 0.197 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB |
South America | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB |
Middle East | CNY 8.4 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB | CNY 3.75 per GB |
Price calculator
EventBridge provides the following price calculator to help you quickly estimate costs:
View bills
You can view bills and consumption details related to EventBridge in Expenses and Costs.
Billing cycles
Fees for EventBridge resources, including event buses and event streams, are settled based on resource usage. The following items describe the billing cycles:
Idle resource occupation: Fees are settled on a daily basis (24 hours). You can view the bills generated for the current day on the next day.
Other billable items: Fees are settled on an hourly basis (UTC+8).
NoteA latency of 2 to 3 hours exists between the time when a bill is generated and the time when the bill can be viewed. For example, you can view the bill generated for the hour from 01:00 to 02:00 after 04:00.
Overdue payments
If the total value of your Alibaba Cloud account balance and vouchers is less than the payable amount of your bill, your account has overdue payments. Overdue payments may affect the running of paid services. To prevent issues caused by overdue payments, add funds to your Alibaba Cloud account at the earliest opportunity.
Payment methods
EventBridge supports the following payment methods:
Bank card
PayPal
Alibaba Cloud performs a pre-authorization on your PayPal account when you start to use pay-as-you-go resources.