Billable Items of ApsaraVideo Live
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Downstream Traffic
You are charged for the downstream traffic of ApsaraVideo Live. You can choose the pay-as-you-go billing method or purchase data transfer plans.
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Video Transcoding
You are charged for the bitrates used for transcoding videos and the total time consumed. You can choose the pay-as-you-go billing method or purchase transcoding plans.
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Billing of Production Studio
Production studio is billed based on the output specifications, transcoding specifications, and corresponding duration. You can use this service based on your business scenarios. You are not charged if you do not use this service.
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Other Services
ApsaraVideo Live supports more features such as screenshot and time shifting. These features are billed separately. They are not billed if disabled.
ApsaraVideo Live Pricing
The pricing of ApsaraVideo Live service consists of live video traffic, transcoding, and screenshot fees.
| Traffic Tier (USD/GB) | Mainland China-CN | North America-NA | European Union-EU | Asia Pacific 1-AP1 | Asia Pacific 2-AP2 | Asia Pacific 3-AP3 | Middle East & Africa-MEAA | South America-SA |
| 0GB-10TB (inclusive) | 0.042 | 0.070 | 0.070 | 0.081 | 0.108 | 0.096 | 0.200 | 0.200 |
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| 10TB-50TB (inclusive) | 0.040 | 0.070 | 0.070 | 0.081 | 0.108 | 0.096 | 0.200 | 0.200 |
| 50TB-100TB (inclusive) | 0.037 | 0.060 | 0.060 | 0.062 | 0.094 | 0.083 | 0.180 | 0.180 |
| 100TB-1PB (inclusive) | 0.032 | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.053 | 0.079 | 0.070 | 0.150 | 0.140 |
| >1PB | 0.026 | 0.025 | 0.025 | 0.048 | 0.072 | 0.064 | 0.140 | 0.130 |
Note: To avoid causing a loss to users due to abnormal and malicious traffic, the upper bandwidth limit for Pay-By-Traffic is set to 10 Gbps by default.
Asia-Pacific Regions:
Asia-Pacific 1: China(Hong Kong), Japan, China(Taiwan), China(Macau), and Southeast Asia Countries (excluding Vietnam and Indonesia)
Asia-Pacific 2: India, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam
Asia-Pacific 3: Australia, New Zealand
| Traffic Tier (USD/GB) | Mainland China-CN | North America-NA | European Union-EU | Asia Pacific 1-AP1 | Asia Pacific 2-AP2 | Asia Pacific 3-AP3 | Middle East & Africa-MEAA | South America-SA |
| 0GB-10TB (inclusive) | 0.084 | 0.140 | 0.140 | 0.162 | 0.216 | 0.192 | 0.400 | 0.400 |
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| 10TB-50TB (inclusive) | 0.080 | 0.140 | 0.140 | 0.162 | 0.216 | 0.192 | 0.400 | 0.400 |
| 50TB-100TB (inclusive) | 0.074 | 0.120 | 0.120 | 0.124 | 0.188 | 0.166 | 0.360 | 0.360 |
| 100TB-1PB (inclusive) | 0.064 | 0.060 | 0.060 | 0.106 | 0.158 | 0.140 | 0.300 | 0.280 |
| >1PB | 0.052 | 0.050 | 0.050 | 0.096 | 0.144 | 0.128 | 0.280 | 0.260 |
| Transcoding Tier | Mainland China Price (USD/Min) | Singapore Price (USD/Min) | Japan Price (USD/Min) | Germany Price (USD/Min) | India Price (USD/Min) | Indonesia Price(USD/Min) |
| 480P (inclusive) and lower【LD】 | 0.0097 | 0.0099 | 0.0099 | 0.0056 | 0.0099 | 0.0099 |
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| 480P-720P (inclusive)【SD】 | 0.0191 | 0.0198 | 0.0198 | 0.0112 | 0.0198 | 0.0198 |
| 720P-1080P (inclusive)【HD】 | 0.0382 | 0.0396 | 0.0396 | 0.0224 | 0.0396 | 0.0396 |
| 1080P-2K (inclusive) | 0.0775 | 0.0792 | 0.0792 | 0.0448 | 0.0792 | 0.0792 |
| 2K-4K (inclusive) | 0.155 | 0.1584 | 0.1584 | 0.0896 | 0.1584 | 0.1584 |
| Type | Mainland China Price (USD/Min) | Singapore Price (USD/Min) | Japan Price (USD/Min) | Germany Price (USD/Min) | India Price (USD/Min) | Indonesia Price(USD/Min) |
| Audio-only Transcoding | 0.0015 | 0.0046 | 0.0046 | 0.003 | 0.0046 | 0.0046 |
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Billing Rules: The different bit rate specifications used on the day and their corresponding durations are added up as the settlement standard.
| Item | Price (USD/stream/day) |
| Billing of transfer from a live center | 0.62 |
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Billing rules: You are charged per day based on the peak number of streams transferred from live centers. The price differs with the live center. If your streams are transferred from different live centers, you are charged separately based on the peak number of streams transferred from each live center.
| Type | Mainland China Price (USD/1000 Pieces/Day) | Singapore Price (USD/1000 Pieces/Day) | Japan Price (USD/1000 Pieces/Day) | Germany Price (USD/1000 Pieces/Day) | India Price (USD/1000 Pieces/Day) | Indonesia Price (USD/1000 Pieces/Day) |
| Screenshots | 0.015 | 0.024 | 0.024 | 0.019 | 0.025 | 0.025 |
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Billing Rules: The live video screenshot service is billed by the number of screenshots taken for live videos on a daily basis.
| Duration | Price (USD/GB) |
| 1 Day | 0.039 |
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| 3 Days | 0.047 |
| 7 Days | 0.063 |
| 15 Days | 0.095 |
| 30 Days | 0.155 |
Note:You are charged based on the size of the content stored on the day for playback and time shifting and the number of days selected for playback. ApsaraVideo Live supports 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 15 days, and 30 days. Content playback generates downstream bandwidth values and traffic of Alibaba Cloud CDN. You are charged for the downstream bandwidth and traffic. Storage fees of the stored content are already included in the pricing of time shifting.
Examples:Time shifting and playback are set to 3 days for a stream under a domain name. Living streaming starts at 20:00:00 (UTC+8) on June 9 and lasts for one hour. The bitrate is 1 Mbit/s. In this case, the bill for June 9 is: 1×60×60/1024/8×0.33=USD 0.145. From 20:00:00 (UTC+8) on June 9 to 21:00:00 (UTC+8) on June 12, time shifting and playback for the stream are supported.
Billing of Streaming (Pay-as-you-go)
| Streaming Specifications | Template Name | Studio Mode(USD/Min) | Near VOD Mode(USD/Min) |
| 480P(inclusive) | LD | 0.025 | 0.020 |
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| 480P-720P(inclusive) | SD and HD | 0.050 | 0.030 |
| 720P-1080P(inclusive) | Ultra HD | 0.10 | 0.050 |
Billing of Transcoding
| Transcoding Tier | Template Name | Mainland China Price (USD/Min) | Singapore Price (USD/Min) | Japan Price (USD/Min) | Germany Price (USD/Min) | India Price (USD/Min) | Indonesia Price(USD/Min) |
| 480P(inclusive) | LD | 0.0097 | 0.0099 | 0.0099 | 0.0056 | 0.0099 | 0.0099 |
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| 480P-720P(inclusive) | SD and HD | 0.0191 | 0.0198 | 0.0198 | 0.0112 | 0.0198 | 0.0198 |
| 720P-1080P(inclusive) | Ultra HD | 0.0382 | 0.0396 | 0.0396 | 0.0224 | 0.0396 | 0.0396 |
Billing rule: You are charged based on the output specifications and transcoding specifications that are specified for your streaming panels and the streaming length on the current day. The unit of streaming length is minutes.
Billing example: You have a streaming panel in mainland China. The output specifications of streams are 720p in high definition, and the streams are transcoded to 480p in low definition. On March 20, 2018, the streaming length of the streaming panel is 100 minutes. The expense of the streaming panel on that day is calculated based on the following formula: USD 0.05/minute × 100 minutes + USD 0.0097/minute × 100 minutes = USD 5.97.
Billing of Queen SDK
You are charged for Queen SDK based on the license that you use. Different editions have different prices and provide different features. For more information about the features, see Download Queen SDK.
| Edition or feature | Price (USD/year) |
| Basic Edition | 0.00 |
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| Pro Edition | 23500 |
| Ultimate Edition | 47000 |
| Auto chroma key | 16000 |
| Standard edition of gesture recognition | 32000 |
| Customized edition of gesture recognition | 47000 |
Billing policy: You are charged for Queen SDK based on the license that you use. Billing method: The subscription billing method is used.
Billing example: You want to use the features provided by Queen SDK Ultimate Edition. From the pricing table, you learn that the price of Ultimate Edition is USD 47,000 per year. Therefore, you need to pay USD 47,000 for using the features provided by Queen SDK Ultimate Edition for one year.
Outbound data transfer plan
Description: The data transfer plan uses the subscription billing method, and supports the one-off payment. The plan takes effect immediately after the payment. The excess data transfer is billed by traffic.
Live Traffic Package Released
| Traffic Specification(USD/GB) | Mainland China-CN | North America-NA | European Union-EU | Asia Pacific 1-AP1 | Asia Pacific 2-AP2 | Asia Pacific 3-AP3 | Middle East & Africa-MEAA | South America-SA |
| 100GB | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 20 | 20 |
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| 500GB | 19 | 33 | 33 | 38 | 49 | 44 | 94 | 94 |
| 1TB | 37 | 65 | 65 | 75 | 98 | 88 | 185 | 185 |
| 5TB | 180 | 315 | 315 | 365 | 485 | 430 | 900 | 900 |
| 10TB | 350 | 620 | 620 | 720 | 960 | 850 | 1780 | 1780 |
| 50TB | 1740 | 3040 | 3040 | 3520 | 4700 | 4700 | 8700 | 8700 |
• Billed item: outbound traffic.
• Billing method: subscription.
• Billing cycle: The system calculates billing on a daily basis, and deducts consumed traffic from the data transfer plan.
• Validity period: one year.
• To use the outbound traffic purchased in the data transfer plan, you must use the Pay by Traffic billing method. If the current billing method is Pay by Bandwidth, the unused data in your data transfer plan is unavailable. Therefore, you must switch to the Pay by Traffic billing method.
• You can choose a target region from eight available regions to accelerate the content delivery.
• A data transfer plan can be used only by the Alibaba Cloud account that purchased the plan.
• Multiple data transfer plans are sorted in ascending order of expiration time. The plan with the least remaining validity days has higher payment priority.
• To check the balance of your outbound traffic quota and view the details of your data transfer plan, choose Billing Management > Billing Management > Resource Packages > Overview, and select Live Traffic Package from the Product drop-down list.
• The outbound traffic quota in the data transfer plan is only available within the validity period. The unused traffic quota is invalid after the plan expires. No alternatives or complementary measures will be provided.
