IPv6 Gateway:IPv6 gateway billing

Before you select a metering method, you need to evaluate the maximum bandwidth and average bandwidth utilization that are required for your services.

The billing for IPv6 Internet bandwidth is separate from the billing for IPv4 Internet bandwidth. For more information about IPv4 Internet bandwidth billing, see Public bandwidth billing.

Pay-by-bandwidth

With the pay-by-bandwidth method, you are charged for IPv6 Internet bandwidth based on the peak bandwidth that you specify and the billing duration.

• The billing cycle and settlement cycle are both one day. If you use the bandwidth for less than one day in a billing cycle, you are charged for a full day.

• Internet bandwidth fees are calculated based on a tiered pricing model with a threshold of 5 Mbps.

  • If the peak bandwidth is from 1 Mbps to 5 Mbps:

    Bandwidth fee = (Unit price for bandwidth from 1 to 5 Mbps) (USD/Mbps/day) × [Billing duration (hours) / 24] (days) × Peak bandwidth (Mbps)

  • If the peak bandwidth is greater than 5 Mbps:

    Bandwidth fee = [(Unit price for bandwidth from 1 to 5 Mbps) (USD/Mbps/day) × 5 + (Unit price for bandwidth greater than 5 Mbps) (USD/Mbps/day) × (n - 5)] × [Billing duration (hours) / 24] (days)

    In the formulas, n represents the peak bandwidth.

• You can change the peak bandwidth at any time. If you change the peak bandwidth of the IPv6 Internet bandwidth within a one-day billing cycle, you are charged based on the highest peak bandwidth that is set within that cycle.

Pay-by-data-transfer

In a billing cycle, Traffic fee = Unit price of traffic (USD/GB) × Traffic usage (GB)

• The billing cycle and settlement cycle are both one hour. If you use the service for less than one hour in a billing cycle, you are charged for a full hour.

• You are charged for the total amount of outbound traffic from an IPv6 address. Inbound traffic is not billed. Outbound traffic is traffic that flows from Alibaba Cloud data centers to the Internet. Inbound traffic is traffic that flows from the Internet to Alibaba Cloud data centers.

• You can use a Data Transfer Plan to offset the fees for pay-by-data-transfer IPv6 Internet bandwidth.

• Changing the peak bandwidth does not affect the unit price. To prevent high traffic fees that are caused by program errors or malicious access, we recommend that you set the bandwidth based on your actual needs.

• The following tables list the traffic fees for different regions.

  If the regions and prices in the console differ from the information in this topic, the information in the console prevails.

  Region	Unit price of traffic (USD/GB)
  China (Qingdao)	0.11
  China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Nanjing - Local Region), China (Fuzhou - Local Region), China (Wuhan - Local Region), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu), South Korea (Seoul), Mexico	0.123
  China (Hong Kong)	0.153
  Japan (Tokyo)	0.087
  Indonesia (Jakarta)	0.09
  Philippines (Manila), Thailand (Bangkok), Singapore	0.081
  Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), US (Silicon Valley)	0.077
  US (Virginia)	0.076
  Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London)	0.07
  SAU (Riyadh - Partner Region)	0.097

Overdue payments