Bill features
Bills provide a monthly summary of your consumption on Alibaba Cloud, detailing the usage of cloud resources. Bill management provides the following features: bill overview and bill details.
Bill type | Scenarios | Description | Issuance time |
The bill overview provides a monthly summary of your bills by aggregating the usage details of your cloud resources. It serves as the primary credential for cost reviews, reconciliation, invoicing, and payments. | You can view an overview of your bills for each billing month. This includes viewing the bill amount for a specific month, aggregating bill reports by different dimensions, exporting monthly bills, and performing unified settlement. | The amount and status of the bill for the current month are continuously updated. The final monthly bill is generated after 12:00 on the 2nd of the following month. Repayments and invoicing must be based on the final bill generated after this time. | |
Bill details provide itemized usage data for your cloud resources within a billing cycle. You can use these details to verify usage, pricing, and discounts, and to understand how your costs are calculated. | Bill details provide the most granular billing information. Each charge corresponds to a separate bill record. You can use bill details to view your detailed spending on Alibaba Cloud. This includes information about cloud product instances, pricing for billable items, discounts, usage, and payable amounts. | Bill details for the current month are continuously updated based on your pay-as-you-go resource usage and subscription resource purchases. For example, a detailed bill record is generated every hour for a pay-as-you-go resource that is billed hourly. The complete and final bill details for the month are generated after 12:00 on the 3rd of the following month. Data queried before this time is for reference only and must not be used for reconciliation. |
If you have other requirements for bills, such as secondary bill splitting or cost analysis for enterprise management, refer to the following table.
Feature | Scenario | Description | Issuance time |
Download cloud resource usage details. | You can export the original usage details of cloud resources. |
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This feature displays fine-grained bills after you perform bill splitting. This feature is suitable for secondary bill splitting or cost analysis for enterprise management. | You can split bills in a fine-grained manner to allocate cloud resource fees to meet requirements such as enterprise management, cost analysis, or resource-level cost control. Note
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