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    Web Application Firewall:View bills

    Last Updated:Apr 15, 2025

    After you purchase a Web Application Firewall (WAF) 3.0 instance, you can view the resource usage details and fees of the instance on the Bills page in the WAF 3.0 console. You can view bills in the Expenses and Costs console. This topic describes how to view the daily bills and billing details of WAF 3.0.

    Prerequisites

    A WAF 3.0 instance is purchased. For more information, see Purchase a subscription WAF 3.0 instance and Purchase a pay-as-you-go WAF 3.0 instance.

    View daily bills

    Daily bills are generated based on your resource usage. You can view the daily bills in the WAF console. You can view the billing details in the Expenses and Costs console. For more information, see View billing details.

    Pay-as-you-go WAF instances

    If you use a pay-as-you-go WAF instance, you are charged traffic processing fees and feature fees. Hourly bills are generated every hour. Daily bills are generated at the end of each billing cycle. All fees are calculated based on security capacity units (SeCUs). You can also view the fees in USD.

    Important

    • The daily bills of pay-as-you-go WAF instances do not include fees for the Simple Log Service for WAF feature. The fees for the Simple Log Service for WAF feature are included in Simple Log Service (SLS) bills. For information about how to query Simple Log Service bills, see Query bills.

    • If you enable WAF protection for an Application Load Balancer (ALB) instance, WAF and ALB charge you fees. For information about how to query ALB bills, see Query billing and spending details.

    • For information about the billing details of pay-as-you-go WAF instances, see Billing overview.

    Procedure

    1. Log on to the WAF 3.0 console. In the top navigation bar, select the resource group and region of the WAF instance. You can select Chinese Mainland or Outside Chinese Mainland.

    2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Bills.

    3. On the Bills page, you can query the billing details.

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      • Estimated Bill for Today

        Displays the estimated fees from 00:00:00 on the current day to the current time. It is calculated hourly. For example, if the current time is 17:07:02, the fees from 00:00:00 to 16:59:59 are displayed.

        Note

        This estimated bill is generated based on your previous resource usage. The final daily bill is generated the next day based on your actual resource usage.

        To view traffic processing and feature fees, click View Billing Details. Green features are charged. Gray features are free.

      • Estimated Bill for Previous Day

        Displays the estimated fees from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 on the previous day.

        To view traffic processing and feature fees, click View Billing Details. Green features are charged. Gray features are free.

    Subscription WAF instances

    When you purchase a subscription WAF instance, Expenses and Costs charges you fees before you can use the instance.

    • If you upgrade the instance, purchase a value-added service, upgrade the specification of a value-added service, or renew the instance after you purchase a subscription WAF instance, Expenses and Costs also charges you fees. In this case, daily bills are not generated. For more information, see Upgrade or downgrade a WAF instance and Renewal policy.

    • If you enable the burstable QPS (pay-as-you-go) feature and your peak QPS exceeds the purchased QPS quota, WAF calculates the fees for excess QPS and generates daily bills. For more information, see the "Billable items" and "Manage bills" sections in the Burstable QPS (pay-as-you-go) topic.

    View billing details

    1. Log on to the WAF 3.0 console. In the top navigation bar, select the resource group and region of the WAF instance. You can select Chinese Mainland or Outside Chinese Mainland.

    2. In the top navigation bar, choose Expenses > Expenses and Costs.

    3. In the Expenses and Costs console, view billing details on the Overview of Monthly Bill and Bill Details pages. For more information, see Billing Management.

      Note

      • When you view WAF 3.0 billing details, select Web Application Firewall from the All products drop-down list and Web Application Firewall 3.0 (Subscription), Web Application Firewall 3.0 (Pay-as-you-go), or Web Application Firewall 3.0 SeCU Resource Plan from the All product sub-types drop-down list.

      • If you purchased SeCU resource plans, you can view the usage details of the resource plans on the Manage Reserved Instances page. For more information, see View the usage details of a SeCU resource plan.

      • WAF billing details are not viewable by protected objects.