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PolarDB:Bills

Last Updated:Aug 27, 2026

Use Expenses and Costs to view billing details for your PolarDB cluster by different billing cycles and accounts.

Viewing bills

  • On the Expenses and Costs > Bills > Bill Details page, use the filters to query for bills.

Note
  • You can only query bills for a single calendar month at a time. You cannot select a time range that spans multiple calendar months. For example, you cannot select the period from January 10, 2022 to February 10, 2022.

  • For more information about the Bill Details page, see Bill Details.

Bill details

The bill details page contains many columns. This topic describes some of the key columns.

Column

Description

Usage

The usage of a billable item.

Note
  • To verify this value, check the usage breakdown for the billable item.

  • If the statistical period is set to a day or billing cycle, the displayed usage is the sum of all detailed usage data. This value is for reference only and should not be used for reconciliation.

Pretax Gross Amount

The pretax amount calculated based on the list price. Refer to the price unit field for the unit of measurement.

Example:

The following shows the monthly records for some billable items on the Bill Details > Billing Details page, where Summarized by is set to Billable Item, Billing Period is set to Billing Cycle, and Product is set to PolarDB.

No.

Product detail

Billable item

List price (USD)

Price unit

Usage

Usage unit

Pretax gross amount (USD)

1

PolarDB (pay-as-you-go)

node specification

0.207

USD/Hour

134

Hour

27.738

2

PolarDB (pay-as-you-go)

storage capacity

0.000748

USD/GB

234.6041

GB

0.18

3

PolarDB cold data storage

cold data storage

0.0000455

USD/GB

31.2297

GB

0.001

4

PolarDB Backup

level-1 backup

0.000464

USD/GB/Hour

68.95116

GB/Hour 

0.032

5

PolarDB Backup

level-2 backup

0.0000325

USD/GB

2992

GB

0.097

The preceding monthly records show the following:

  • In row 2, the storage capacity usage is 234.6041 GB. This value indicates the total storage capacity usage of a PolarDB cluster for the current month.

  • For the list price of each billable item, see billable items.

  • The Pretax Gross Amount is calculated as follows: Usage × List Price.

Note

The data in this example is for reference only. The actual prices on the product page prevail.