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    Microservices Engine:Billing for general-purpose instances

    Last Updated:Aug 27, 2026

    Learn about billing items, billing methods, and pricing for MSE Cloud Native Gateway general-purpose instances in Standard and Professional editions.

    Billing

    Instance fees

    Calculated based on the instance type unit price and the number of nodes.

    SLB fees

    When purchasing a Standard Edition instance, you can add an NLB or SLB load balancer instance as the gateway entry point. The system automatically creates the selected instance. The SLB instance is billed separately by the load balancer service, and the fees are charged directly to your account. MSE does not charge any fees for the SLB instance. For more information, see NLB billing overview or CLB billing overview.

    Billing methods

    The following billing methods are available for general-purpose instances:

    Billing method

    Description

    Use cases

    pay-as-you-go (post-paid)

    You are billed hourly for the resources you consume.

    Ideal for workloads with fluctuating usage or for short-term needs.

    subscription (pre-paid)

    You pay in advance for a fixed period, such as monthly or annually.

    Ideal for workloads with stable usage and for long-term requirements.

    Billing cycles and formulas

    Pay-as-you-go

    • Billing cycle

      Billed hourly, with a bill generated every 24 hours. Charges are automatically deducted from your Alibaba Cloud account balance. The specific bill generation time may vary.

    • Billing formula

    • Billing example

      For example, if you purchase a 2-core 4 GiB pay-as-you-go instance in the Chinese mainland with 3 nodes and run it for 5 hours, the total fee is: 0.136 × 5 × 3 = 2.04 USD.

    Subscription

    • Billing cycle

      Billed monthly. An annual subscription covers a 12-month period. Charges are automatically deducted from your Alibaba Cloud account balance. The specific bill generation time may vary.

    • Billing formula

    • Billing example

      For example, if you purchase a 2-core 4 GiB subscription instance in the Chinese mainland with 3 nodes for a one-year term, the total fee is: 69 × 12 × 3 = 2,484 USD.

    Auto scaling

    Cloud-native Gateway general-purpose instances support auto scaling. You can configure a time window for auto scaling to handle business peaks. Elastic nodes created by auto scaling are billed separately on a pay-as-you-go basis. In your billing details, the product name for these nodes is Cloud-native Gateway (Elastic Node).

    • Billing formula

      Note

      To calculate the fixed node fee, see Pay-as-you-go or Subscription.

      To calculate the elastic node fee, see Pay-as-you-go. The unit price of an elastic node is higher than the pay-as-you-go unit price of a regular node. For more details, see Instance fees.

    • Billing example

      For example, you purchase a 2-core 4 GiB subscription instance in the Chinese mainland with 3 nodes. You also configure the instance to scale out to 4 nodes every day from 20:00 to 22:00. This generates daily charges for one 2-core 4 GiB elastic node running for two hours.

      The total monthly fee for this instance is: 69 × 3 × 1 + 0.341 (unit price of a 2-core 4 GiB elastic node) × 1 × 2 × 30 = 227.46 USD.

    Instance charges

    Note

    For current pricing, see the Product Purchase Page.

    Region

    Node specification

    Pay-as-you-go price (USD/hour)

    Subscription price (USD/month)

    Elastic node price (USD/hour)

    Chinese mainland

    2 Core 4 GiB

    0.136

    69

    0.341

    4 Core 8 GiB

    0.273

    137

    0.681

    8 Core 16 GiB

    0.544

    274

    1.357

    16 Core 32 GiB

    1.088

    548

    2.716

    • China (Hong Kong)

    • Japan (Tokyo)

    2 Core 4 GiB

    0.205

    103

    0.511

    4 Core 8 GiB

    0.409

    206

    1.022

    8 Core 16 GiB

    0.816

    411

    2.038

    16 Core 32 GiB

    1.632

    822

    4.074

    • Singapore

    • Indonesia (Jakarta)

    • Germany (Frankfurt)

    2 Core 4 GiB

    0.188

    95

    0.471

    4 Core 8 GiB

    0.376

    189

    0.941

    8 Core 16 GiB

    0.751

    378

    1.873

    16 Core 32 GiB

    1.501

    757

    3.750

    • US (Virginia)

    • US (Silicon Valley)

    2 Core 4 GiB

    0.164

    82

    0.410

    4 Core 8 GiB

    0.327

    164

    0.819

    8 Core 16 GiB

    0.653

    329

    1.630

    16 Core 32 GiB

    1.306

    658

    3.260

    Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

    2 Core 4 GiB

    0.175

    88

    0.438

    4 Core 8 GiB

    0.352

    177

    0.879

    8 Core 16 GiB

    0.702

    354

    1.751

    16 Core 32 GiB

    1.404

    708

    3.503

    Tag-based cost allocation

    Cloud Native Gateway general-purpose instances support attaching tags to enable split billing for your enterprise. For more information, see Using split billing by tag.

    Product name

    Billable item

    Billing type

    Tag-based allocation

    Cloud Native Gateway (pay-as-you-go)

    gateway instance type

    pay-as-you-go

    Yes

    Cloud Native Gateway (subscription)

    gateway instance type

    subscription

    Yes

    Unsubscription

    If you no longer need a Cloud Native Gateway instance, you can unsubscribe to stop incurring charges. For more information, see Unsubscribe from resources.