Learn about NLB billing methods, billable items, billing cycles, and pricing.
Billing methods
NLB supports pay-as-you-go and subscription billing.
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Pay-as-you-go: Billed by actual usage of each billable item. Fees are deducted after resources are consumed. Best for unpredictable workloads.
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Subscription (resource plans): Prepurchased resource plans that offset usage fees. Best for predictable workloads.
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Subscription is more cost-effective than pay-as-you-go.
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Overages beyond the resource plan are billed at pay-as-you-go rates. Purchase resource plans based on your estimated usage.
Billable items
The following figure shows NLB billable items.
Billing cycle
NLB instance fees and LCU fees are calculated hourly. Bills are typically generated 1 hour after each billing cycle ends.
Internet-facing NLB instances incur an Internet data transfer fee. By default, these NLB instances use elastic IP addresses (EIPs) for Internet access.
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If an NLB instance uses an EIP for Internet access, the EIP manages the data transfer fee. EIP billing cycles and fee schedules apply. For more information, see Billing.
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If an NLB instance uses an Anycast EIP for Internet access, the Anycast EIP manages the data transfer fee. Anycast EIP billing cycles and fee schedules apply, as described in Supported regions and Billing rules.
Pricing
For more information about the pricing of each NLB billable item, see NLB billing and NLB resource plans. The prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Use the NLB LCU Calculator to estimate your LCU consumption.
Overdue payment policy
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Suspension policy |
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Near due |
The system checks whether your account balance covers the next three billing cycles based on the average payable amount over the last 7 hours. If the balance is insufficient, you are notified by text message or email. Warning
If your service is about to be suspended due to an overdue payment, renew at the earliest opportunity to ensure service continuity. |
Top up the account balance to resume your service. |
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Overdue |
If your account has an overdue payment, all pay-as-you-go instances are affected:
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If an NLB instance remains stopped for 15 days due to an overdue payment, the instance is released and all configurations and data are permanently deleted. |
You cannot restore these instances. |
View amount due
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Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
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On the Account Overview page, view overdue payments.
View resource usage
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Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
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In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
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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.
For Billable Item, select Network Load Balancer in this example.
The downloaded file shows resource usage by instance ID, region, or IP address.
Query billing and spending details
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Log on to the Expenses and Costs console and go to the Bill Details page.
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On the Bill Details page, click the Consumption by Bill, Billing Details, or Usage Records tab. For more information, see Consumption by bill, Billing details, and Usage records.