1. Billing methods
Public Zone supports the following two billing methods:
Public Zone (Subscription): This is a prepaid subscription plan that provides the professional and global resolution capabilities of the paid version of Authoritative DNS.
Alibaba Cloud DNS (Pay-as-you-go): This is a postpaid pay-as-you-go service that lets you use advanced features, such as Authoritative Zone traffic analysis.
2. Billable items
1. Public Zone (subscription)
For instructions on how to purchase and attach domain names, see Purchase and attach domain names.
Plan 1: Personal Edition + DNS Security Protection (Optional)
Personal Edition can be purchased with optional DNS Security Protection. The billing formula is as follows: Total fee = (Unit price of Personal Edition + Unit price of DNS Security Protection) × Number of domain names
Billable item | Price | Description |
| 7 USD/domain name/year | Personal Edition: 7 USD/domain name/year Basic Protection: 86 USD/domain name/year Full Protection: 429 USD/domain name/year |
| 93 USD/domain name/year | |
| 436 USD/domain name/year |
Plan 2: Enterprise Ultimate Edition + DNS Security Protection (Required)
Enterprise Ultimate Edition requires DNS Security Protection. The billing formula is as follows: Total fee = (Unit price of Enterprise Ultimate Edition + Unit price of DNS Security Protection) × Number of domain names
Billable item | Price | Description |
| 167 USD/domain name/year | Enterprise Ultimate Edition: 81 USD/domain name/year Basic Protection: 86 USD/domain name/year Full Protection: 429 USD/domain name/year |
| 510 USD/domain name/year |
Plan 3: Exclusive Edition
Exclusive Edition includes Full DNS Protection by default. The billing formula is as follows: Total fee = Unit price of Exclusive Edition × Number of domain names
Billable item | Price |
| 4287 USD/domain name/year |
Expiration
For more information about instance expiration and renewal, see Instance expiration and renewal.
2. Authoritative Zone traffic analysis
Feature | Price | Description |
Authoritative Zone network traffic analysis | 0.03 USD/10,000 entries | Billing for Authoritative Zone traffic analysis is based on the number of authoritative resolution log entries and is settled daily. To use this service, enable or disable traffic analysis for your domain names. |
The billing formula is as follows: DNS traffic analysis fee = Number of authoritative log analysis entries × Unit price of traffic analysis
Billing example:
Assume that the total number of authoritative log analysis entries for the domain names of Account A on a given day is 1 million.
The total fee is calculated as follows: 3 USD = 1 million entries × 0.03 USD/10,000 entries.
Purchase a data transfer plan for Authoritative Zone traffic analysis
If your domain names receive a high volume of DNS queries, you can purchase a data transfer plan for Authoritative Zone traffic analysis for your pay-as-you-go items. The data transfer plan takes effect immediately after purchase and is valid for one year. During the validity period, the plan is used to offset your pay-as-you-go bills. Any unused resources in the plan automatically expire at the end of the validity period. The billing rules for the data transfer plan are as follows:
Plan size (10,000 queries) | Validity period (months) | Plan price | Unit price per 10,000 entries |
1000 | 12 | 21 USD | 0.021 USD |
10000 | 12 | 182 USD | 0.0182 USD |
100000 | 12 | 1680 USD | 0.0168 USD |
1000000 | 12 | 14000 USD | 0.014 USD |
Authoritative Zone traffic analysis is billed daily. If you purchase a data transfer plan during a billing cycle, the fees for that cycle are automatically deducted from the plan's quota when the bill is generated.
A data transfer plan cannot be used to offset fees for a billing cycle if the plan is purchased after the bill for that cycle has been generated. The plan can only be used to offset fees in the next billing cycle.
After the quota of the data transfer plan is exhausted, additional queries are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Overdue payments
Alibaba Cloud DNS provides service suspension protection, which lets you continue using Alibaba Cloud services within a specific credit limit or for a certain period. Your existing pay-as-you-go services, purchased resource plans, and subscription resources can continue to be used. The service suspension process is initiated only if your usage exceeds the protection scope. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go service suspension protection.