Metering method

• Pay-by-peak-bandwidth

• Pay-by-data-transfer

• Pay-by-requests

• Pay-by-real-time-log-entries

• Pay-by-WebSocket-data-transfer or pay-by-WebSocket-bandwidth

• Pay-by-IPA-data-transfer or pay-by-peak-bandwidth

Note: The bandwidth usage is calculated based on the following formula: Bandwidth usage = Data usage (GB)/[Peak bandwidth (Mbit/s) × 10.54]. If the bandwidth is 1 Mbit/s and the daily bandwidth usage is 100%, the data usage is 10.54 GB.

Pay-by-data-transfer description

Billable item: outbound traffic

• Billing method: pay-as-you-go

• Billing rule: The data transfer in each region is billed separately by using tiered pricing. Monthly data transfer overages are accumulated and calculated on a calendar month basis.

• Billing cycle: billed on an hourly basis. Fees are deducted in real time.

Note: To protect users from losses due to malicious traffic, the default maximum bandwidth for the pay-by-data-transfer metering method is 10 Gbit/s.

• Asia Pacific 1 consists of Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China), Japan, and Southeast Asian countries and regions except Vietnam and Indonesia.

• Asia Pacific 2 consists of India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam.

• Asia Pacific 3 consists of Australia and New Zealand.

Pay-by-peak-bandwidth description

Billable item: peak bandwidth

• Billing method: pay-as-you-go

• Billing rule: The peak bandwidth is billed based on tiered pricing in each region.

• Billing cycle: billed on a daily basis. Fees are deducted in real time. The bill of the current day is issued and the bandwidth fee is deducted from your account balance after 00:00 (UTC+8) on the next day. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system.

Note: You are charged based on the daily peak bandwidth values, which are measured in Mbit/s, reached by CDN nodes that are deployed inside and outside the Chinese mainland separately.

• Asia Pacific 1 consists of Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China), Japan, and Southeast Asian countries and regions except Vietnam and Indonesia.

• Asia Pacific 2 consists of India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam.

• Asia Pacific 3 consists of Australia and New Zealand.

Pay-by-requests description

You are charged for the following two parts when you use DCDN: network traffic or bandwidth and the number of requests.

The following two metering methods are available for network traffic or bandwidth: pay-by-data-transfer or pay-by-daily-peak-bandwidth.

If you are billed based on the number of requests, the charges are based on the number of requests for dynamic content. If HTTPS acceleration is enabled, you are also charged for HTTPS requests.

• Billing method: pay-as-you-go

• Billing cycle: billed on an hourly basis. Fees are deducted in real time.

• A bill is issued at the end of the current billing cycle. The billing cycle is counted based on the calendar day. In most cases, a bill is issued within 1 hour after the current billing cycle ends. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system. The amount due is then automatically deducted from your account balance.

Billing by number of real-time log entries

Billing method: pay-as-you-go

Billing cycle: billed on an hourly basis. Fees are deducted in real time.

WebSocket billing description

WebSocket connections are billed separately in each region based on data transfer or bandwidth by using tiered pricing. Monthly data transfer or traffic overages are accumulated and calculated on a calendar month basis.

• Billable items: traffic or bandwidth

• Billing method: pay-as-you-go

• Billing rule: You are charged based on tiered pricing in each region. Monthly overages are accumulated and calculated on a calendar month basis.

• Billing cycle: billed on an hourly basis. Fees are deducted in real time. If the metering method is pay-by-bandwidth, the bandwidth is billed on a daily basis. Fees are deducted in real time.

• A bill is issued at the end of the current billing cycle. In most cases, a data transfer bill is issued within 3 hours after the current billing cycle ends. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system. The amount due is then automatically deducted from your account balance. If the metering method is pay-by-bandwidth, the bill of the current day is issued and the bandwidth fee is deducted from your account balance after 00:00 (UTC+8) on the next day. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system.

• If you use the pay-by-bandwidth metering method, the bandwidth cap is 10 Gbit/s. To request a higher bandwidth value, submit a ticket.

• Asia Pacific 1 consists of Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China), Japan, and Southeast Asian countries and regions except Vietnam and Indonesia.

• Asia Pacific 2 consists of India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam.

• Asia Pacific 3 consists of Australia and New Zealand.

IPA billing description

IP Application Accelerator (IPA) supports billing by data transfer and billing by peak bandwidth.

Pay-by-data-transfer (default): You are charged for outbound data transfer on DCDN POPs based on tiered pricing on a monthly basis.

Pay-by-peak-bandwidth: You are charged based on daily peak bandwidth values. A bandwidth value is calculated every 5 minutes. A total of 288 values are collected every day. The maximum bandwidth value is used as the daily peak bandwidth value.

Asia Pacific 1 consists of Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China), Japan, and Southeast Asian countries and regions except Vietnam and Indonesia.

Asia Pacific 2 consists of India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam.

Asia Pacific 3 consists of Australia and New Zealand.

Billing of DDoS mitigation

When you enable DDoS mitigation, you are charged for Anti-DDoS instances that you purchase. The price varies with the instance edition. After you enable DDoS mitigation and add a domain name, you are charged for all outbound traffic generated for domain names with DDoS mitigation enabled based on the unit price of scrubbed traffic. The following table describes the fees for instances of different specifications and scrubbed traffic.

a. Scrubbed traffic: You are charged for all outbound traffic generated for domain names with DDoS mitigation enabled based on the unit price of scrubbed traffic.
b. Protection scope: global.
c. Domain names: All 10 domain names are subdomains in the format of a.b.com and must belong to the same top-level domain b.com. You can add a top-level domain such as c.com for every additional 10 domain names.
d. Limits: DDoS mitigation can be enabled for only customers whose clean bandwidth is 10 Gbit/s and whose peak QPS is below 100,000. If your clean bandwidth exceeds 10 Gbit/s, submit a ticket.

Billing of WAF protection

In the new version of WAF, the number of requests for domain names that are protected by WAF and the number of configured rules are converted into SeCUs for billing. The price of 1 SeCU is USD 0.008. The following sections describe the conversion between the number of rules or the number of requests and the number of SeCUs.

Billing cycle: billed on a daily basis. Fees are deducted in real time.

a. Every 5,000 requests are equivalent to 1 SeCU. SeCUs generated by requests for the entire account are counted every 1 hour. You are charged for 1 SeCU if the number of SeCUs is less than 1.
b. Billing cycle: billed on an hourly basis. Fees are deducted in real time.