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Internet Shared Bandwidth:Billing

Last Updated:May 08, 2025

Internet Shared Bandwidth supports the pay-as-you-go billing method.

Billing methods

Internet Shared Bandwidth supports only the pay-as-you-go billing method, which allows you to use resources before you pay for them. Take note of the following items about pay-as-you-go Internet Shared Bandwidth instances:

Billable items

The following table describes the billable items of Internet Shared Bandwidth.计费总览

Billable item

Description

Metering method

Data transfer

You are charged based on the hourly Internet data transfer.

Pay-by-data-transfer

Billing cycle

The following table describes the billing cycle of Internet Shared Bandwidth.

Billing cycle

Bill release time

Billable item

Hourly

A bill is generated within 1 hour after the current billing cycle ends. The system determines the time when bills are issued.

Data transfer (pay-by-data-transfer Internet Shared Bandwidth instances)

Pricing

For more information about pricing, see Pay-by-data-transfer. The actual prices on the buy page shall prevail.

References

Overdue payment and account top-up

If the available balance of the account, including cash, vouchers, coupons, and authorization hold, is insufficient to complete the issued bills, the payment becomes overdue.

The following rules apply to pay-as-you-go Internet Shared Bandwidth instances that have an overdue payment:

  • After a payment becomes overdue, the Internet Shared Bandwidth instance remains available within the following 15 days.

  • If the overdue payment is not completed within the 15 days, the Internet Shared Bandwidth instance is suspended and retained for 15 days. After an Internet Shared Bandwidth instance is suspended, the bandwidth is limited to 1 Kbit/s. The EIPs are remain associated with the Internet Shared Bandwidth instance.

  • If the overdue payment is not completed within the 15-day suspension period, the Internet Shared Bandwidth instance is released. The EIPs associated with the Internet Shared Bandwidth instance are automatically disassociated from the Internet Shared Bandwidth instance and use the pay-by-peak-bandwidth metering method.

The following top-up rules apply to pay-as-you-go Internet Shared Bandwidth instances:

  • After a payment becomes overdue, if you top up your account within 15 days, your business is not affected.

  • If the overdue payment is not completed for 30 days, and you top up your account before the Internet Shared Bandwidth instance is released, the overdue payment is automatically completed. After the overdue payment is completed, the suspended Internet Shared Bandwidth instance is immediately restored.

View your bills

View the overview of your monthly bills

Log on to the Expenses and Costs console and choose Bills > Overview of Monthly Bill. On the Overview of Monthly Bill page, you can view your monthly spending and export bills.

View bill details

Log on to the Expenses and Costs console and choose 在Bills > Bill Details. On the Bill Details page, you can query bill details by billing cycle, day, billable item, or instance.