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    Microservices Engine:Billing overview

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    Microservices Engine:Billing overview

    Last Updated:Aug 30, 2023

    Cloud-native gateways of Microservices Engine (MSE) became available for commercial use on September 28, 2021. This topic describes the billable items and their pricing information of cloud-native gateways.

    Billable items

    You are charged for cloud-native gateways managed by MSE. Cloud-native gateways use Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) instances as Ingresses to meet requirements for different gateway environments. You can associate one or more Internet-facing or internal-facing SLB instances with a cloud-native gateway based on your business requirements.

    The fees of SLB instances that are purchased based on the selected MSE engine specifications are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account. The fees of SLB instances are not included in MSE fees.

    Billing methods and cycles

    • Pay-as-you-go: If you use the pay-as-you-go billing method, you must select the engine specifications and number of nodes based on your business requirements. The billing duration is measured in hours. If a gateway runs for less than one hour, the usage duration is considered one hour. Fees are calculated every hour and a bill is generated at an interval of 24 hours. Fees are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system.

    • Subscription: If you use the subscription billing method, you must select the engine specifications and the number of nodes based on your business requirements. The billing duration is measured in months. If the duration that you select is 1 year, the total fees are fees for 1 month multiplied by 12. Fees are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system.

    Billing formulas

    Note

    The unit price for engine specifications is provided for a single gateway node. If you configure multiple nodes for a gateway, the total fees are determined based on the number of nodes.

    • Pay-as-you-go: Total fees = Unit price of engine specifications × Number of hours × Number of nodes. For example, if you select a region in the Chinese mainland, select the engine specifications (2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory), configure 3 nodes for a gateway, and select a duration of 5 hours, the total fees are USD 2.04, which is obtained by using the following formula: 0.136 × 5 × 3.

    • Subscription: Total fees = Unit price of engine specifications × Number of months × Number of nodes. For example, if you select a region in the Chinese mainland, select the engine specifications (2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory), configure 3 nodes for a gateway, and select a duration of 1 year, the total fees are USD 2,484, which is obtained by using the following formula: 69 × 12 × 3.

    For example, you purchase a subscription cloud-native gateway that is deployed in a region in the Chinese mainland. The engine specifications of the gateway are 2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory, and three nodes are configured for the gateway. The system automatically triggers scale-out and adds one elastic node to run during the period from 20:00 to 22:00 every day. In this case, additional fees are generated for one elastic node with 2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory that runs for 2 hours every day in a 30-day month. The total monthly fees for the gateway are USD 227.46, which is obtained by using the following formula: (69 × 3) + (0.341 × 1 × 2 × 30).

    Gateway fees

    Note

    The prices described in this topic are for reference only. For the actual prices, refer to the MSE buy page.

    • Cloud-native gateways support two types of billing methods: pay-as-you-go and subscription. The billable items include the engine specifications (CPU cores and memory) and number of nodes.

    • Cloud-native gateways support auto scaling. You can configure a period for auto scaling to better cope with traffic surges. For the elastic nodes that are automatically scaled out, the system separately generates costs for such nodes on a pay-as-you-go basis. The unit price for elastic nodes is higher than the unit price for common pay-as-you-go nodes. In the billing details, the fees generated for elastic nodes of cloud-native gateways are separately listed.

    Region

    Number of CPU cores

    Memory

    Unit price for pay-as-you-go gateways (USD per hour)

    Unit price for subscription gateways (USD per month)

    Unit price for elastic nodes (USD per hour)

    Regions in the Chinese mainland

    2 cores

    4 GiB

    0.136

    69

    0.341

    4 cores

    8 GiB

    0.273

    137

    0.681

    8 cores

    16 GiB

    0.544

    274

    1.357

    16 cores

    32 GiB

    1.088

    548

    2.716

    • China (Hong Kong)

    • Japan (Tokyo)

    2 cores

    4 GiB

    0.205

    103

    0.511

    4 cores

    8 GiB

    0.409

    206

    1.022

    8 cores

    16 GiB

    0.816

    411

    2.038

    16 cores

    32 GiB

    1.632

    822

    4.074

    • Singapore

    • Indonesia (Jakarta)

    • Germany (Frankfurt)

    2 cores

    4 GiB

    0.188

    95

    0.471

    4 cores

    8 GiB

    0.376

    189

    0.941

    8 cores

    16 GiB

    0.751

    378

    1.873

    16 cores

    32 GiB

    1.501

    757

    3.750

    • US (Virginia)

    • US (Silicon Valley)

    2 cores

    4 GiB

    0.164

    82

    0.410

    4 cores

    8 GiB

    0.327

    164

    0.819

    8 cores

    16 GiB

    0.653

    329

    1.630

    16 cores

    32 GiB

    1.306

    658

    3.260

    Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

    2 cores

    4 GiB

    0.175

    88

    0.438

    4 cores

    8 GiB

    0.352

    177

    0.879

    6 cores

    16 GiB

    0.702

    354

    1.751

    8 cores

    32 GiB

    1.404

    708

    3.503