This topic describes the billing rules and pricing for PolarDB-X instance storage.
Storage pricing
You can choose between two billing methods for storage: pay-as-you-go (post-paid) and subscription (pre-paid).
Pay-as-you-go (post-paid)
Table 1. Pricing details for different Instance Type, Storage Type, and regions (USD/GB/hour)
Region | Primary instance | Read-only instance | |
Local SSD with custom size | Local SSD with fixed size | Local SSD | |
Chinese mainland | 0.000265 | 0.000265 | 0.000265 |
China (Hong Kong) | 0.000265 | 0.000265 | 0.000265 |
Singapore | 0.000398 | 0.000398 | 0.000398 |
Indonesia (Jakarta) | 0.000398 | 0.000398 | 0.000398 |
Germany (Frankfurt) | 0.000398 | 0.000398 | 0.000398 |
US (Virginia) | 0.000398 | 0.000398 | 0.000398 |
US (Silicon Valley) | 0.000398 | 0.000398 | 0.000398 |
Subscription (pre-paid)
Table 2. Pricing details for different Instance Type, Storage Type, and regions (USD)
Region | Primary instance | |
Local SSD | Local SSD with custom size | |
Chinese mainland | 0.000156/GB/hour | 0.1125/GB/month |
China (Hong Kong) | 0.000156/GB/hour | 0.1125/GB/month |
Singapore | 0.000234/GB/hour | 0.16875/GB/month |
Indonesia (Jakarta) | 0.000234/GB/hour | 0.16875/GB/month |
Germany (Frankfurt) | 0.000234/GB/hour | 0.16875/GB/month |
US (Virginia) | 0.000234/GB/hour | 0.16875/GB/month |
US (Silicon Valley) | 0.000234/GB/hour | 0.16875/GB/month |