This topic describes how CLB is billed.
Adjustments are made to the billable items of CLB. Beginning 00:00:00 (UTC+8), December 1, 2024, the following new billable items are used by pay-as-you-go CLB instances:
Instance fee is renamed public IP retention fee.
A billable item instance fee is added.
For more information, see CLB billing adjustments.
Metering methods
Pay-as-you-go CLB instances support two metering methods: pay-by-LCU and pay-by-specification.
CLB supports the following metering methods for Internet data transfer: pay-by-bandwidth and pay-by-data-transfer
Billing method | Metering method | Instance type | Internet data transfer billing method | Scenarios |
Pay-by-LCU | Internet-facing | Pay-by-data-transfer |
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Internal-facing | N/A | |||
Pay-by-specification | Internet-facing | Pay-by-data-transfer |
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Pay-by-bandwidth | ||||
Internal-facing | N/A |
Billable items
The following figure shows the billable items of a pay-as-you-go CLB instance.
Billing cycles
The following table describes the billing cycles supported by CLB.
Billing cycle | Fee deduction time and bill generation time | Billable item |
Hourly | You are charged on an hourly basis. A bill is generated about 1 hour after the end of a billing cycle. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system. | A pay-as-you-go CLB instance is billed based on the following billable items:
For more information, see Pay-as-you-go. |
Daily | You are charged on a daily basis. A bill is typically generated in the early morning of the next day. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system. | Bandwidth fees (pay-as-you-go) For more information, see Pay-as-you-go. |
Pricing
For more information about the pricing of each CLB billable item, see Pay-as-you-go. The prices on the buy page shall prevail.
You can use the LCU calculator to calculate the number of LCUs consumed by a CLB instance.
References
Billing method:
Specification changes:
FAQs:
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Overdue payments
Payment status | Resource status | Solution |
Nearly due | The system calculates the average bill amount of the last 24 hours and checks whether the account balance can cover the estimated bill amount for the next three billing cycles. If the account balance is insufficient to cover the estimated bill amount for the next three billing cycles, the system sends notifications by text message and email. Warning You are notified if your service is about to be suspended due to an overdue payment. To ensure service continuity, renew your service at the earliest opportunity. | After you top up the account balance, your service is resumed. |
Overdue | If your Alibaba Cloud account has an overdue payment, all pay-as-you-go instances within your account are affected.
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Fifteen days after a CLB instance is suspended due to an overdue payment, the CLB instance is released. You are notified one day before the instance is released. The configurations and data of the instance are deleted and cannot be recovered. | In this case, you cannot restore the configuration or data. |
View amount due
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
On the Account Overview page, view overdue payments.
Expired instances
CLB instances that have overdue payments are moved to the Expired Instances list.
Background information
If a payment becomes overdue, the CLB instance continues to provide services within the following 15 days.
When the payment remains overdue for 15 days, the CLB instance is suspended and moved to the Expired Instances list.
If you top up your account and complete the overdue payment within 15 days after the CLB instance is suspended, the CLB instance is removed from the Expired Instances page and listed on the Instances page.
If you do not complete the overdue payment 15 days after the CLB instance is suspended, the CLB instance is released.
Renew an expired CLB instance
Log on to the CLB console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Expired Instances.
View the details of CLB instances that have overdue payments.
Find the CLB instance that you want to renew and click Renew in the Actions column. After the CLB instance is renewed, it is removed from the Expired Instances page and listed on the Instances page.
View resource usage
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
On the Bill Details page, click the Usage Records tab. Set Product to Server Load Balancer (SLB), specify a billable item, a time period, and a time unit, and then click Export CSV.
Set Billable Item to the load balancing service that you want to query. In this example, Classic Load Balancer is selected.
After you open the downloaded file, you can view the resource usage by instance ID, region, or IP address.
Query billing and spending details
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console and go to the Bill Details page.
On the Bill Details page, click the Consumption by Bill, Billing Details, or Usage Records tab to view the required information. For more information, see Consumption by bill, Billing details, and Usage records.