This topic describes the billing rules for billable items of different Smart Access Gateway (SAG) resources.
Billing rules for SAG customer-premises equipment (CPE) instances
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
CPE fee | One-off payment.
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Bandwidth fee for an SAG CPE instance | You are charged based on the maximum bandwidth and the bandwidth usage duration of the SAG CPE instance. Bandwidth fee = Bandwidth unit price (USD per year per Mbit/s) × Maximum bandwidth (Mbit/s) × Usage duration (year) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the bandwidth is used. Note
| Subscription | The bandwidth unit prices for an SAG CPE instance in different regions are different. The prices on the buy page shall prevail. |
Billing rules for an SAG vCPE instance
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
SAG vCPE instance fee | You are charged based on the usage duration of the SAG vCPE instance. Instance fee = Instance unit price (USD/month) × Usage duration (month) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the SAG vCPE instance is used. | Subscription | The prices on the buy page shall prevail. |
Bandwidth fee for an SAG vCPE instance | You are charged based on the maximum bandwidth and the bandwidth usage duration of the SAG vCPE instance. Bandwidth fee = Bandwidth unit price (USD per month per Mbit/s) × Maximum bandwidth (Mbit/s) × Usage duration (month) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the bandwidth is used. Note The maximum bandwidth for an SAG vCPE instance must be at least 10 Mbit/s. | Subscription | The bandwidth unit prices for an SAG vCPE instance in different regions are different. The prices on the buy page shall prevail. |
Billing rules for an SAG app instance
The prices in the following table are for reference only. The prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Billing rule
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
SAG app instance fee | You are charged based on the number of client accounts by using a tiered pricing model. For example, if the number of client accounts is n:
| Subscription | For more information about the unit price of an SAG app instance, see Unit price of an SAG app instance (unit: USD/account /month). |
Data transfer fee for an SAG app instance | Each client account has a quota free of charge for 5 GB each month. If the data transfer exceeds 5 GB, you can purchase a data transfer plan to deduct the fee or pay the fee based on the pay-by-data-transfer metering method. | N/A | N/A |
When you use data transfer plans, you are charged based on the number of data transfer plans. Data transfer plans take effect immediately after you purchase them. The validity period of each data transfer plan is one month. | Subscription | Alibaba Cloud provides data transfer plans of various sizes. For more information about the prices, see Unit price of a data transfer plan (unit: USD/data transfer plan). | |
If you do not use data transfer plans or the data transfer plans are exhausted, you are charged based on the pay-by-data-transfer metering method. Data transfer fee = Unit price of data transfer (USD/GB × Amount of data transfer (GB) | Pay-as-you-go | For more information about the unit price of data transfer, see Unit price of data transfer (unit: USD/GB). |
Descriptions of the data transfer fee for an SAG app instance
Each client account on an SAG app instance has a quota free of charge for 5 GB each month. If the free quota is exhausted, the data transfer plans that you purchased are used to deduct the fee. If the data transfer plans are exhausted, you are charged based on the pay-by-data-transfer metering method.
Data transfer plans apply to all the client accounts of SAG app instances that belong to your Alibaba Cloud account. If the data transfer of a client account that belongs to your Alibaba Cloud account exceeds the free quota, you can purchase data transfer plans to offset the fee.
The free quota of a client account cannot be shared with another client account.
The free quota of 5 GB refers to the maximum amount of inbound or outbound traffic.
The unused free quota or data transfer plans in a month cannot be transferred to the next month.
Pricing
Number of client accounts | Chinese mainland | Outside the Chinese mainland (excluding Dubai) |
5 to 100 | 6.96 | 6.96 |
101 to 1,000 | 5.42 | 5.42 |
Data transfer plan size (unit: GB) | Chinese mainland | Outside the Chinese mainland (excluding Dubai) |
10 | 26 | 26 |
50 | 123 | 123 |
128 | 288 | 288 |
512 | 1,149 | 1,149 |
1,024 | 2,154 | 2,154 |
5,120 | 10,193 | 10,193 |
10,240 | 19,381 | 19,381 |
51,200 | 92,310 | 92,310 |
Unit price of data transfer | Chinese mainland | Outside the Chinese mainland (excluding Dubai) |
Unit price of data transfer | 3.10 | 3.10 |
Billing rules for application acceleration plans
The prices in the following table are for reference only. The prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
Bandwidth fee | You are charged based on the maximum bandwidth and the bandwidth usage duration of the application acceleration plan. Bandwidth fee = Bandwidth unit price (USD per month per Mbit/s × Maximum bandwidth (Mbit/s) × Usage duration (Month) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the bandwidth is used. | Subscription | Unit price of the bandwidth for the application acceleration plan: USD 95 per month per Mbit/s |