This topic describes the billing methods, billable items, and billing rules for Alibaba Cloud CDN.
Usage notes
If the Business Type parameter is set to DCDN when you add a domain name to Alibaba Cloud CDN, you are billed based on the billing rules of Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN). You can log on to the DCDN console to view and manage domain names that are accelerated by DCDN.
Bills for Alibaba Cloud CDN are generated 3 to 4 hours after each billing cycle ends.
By default, pay-by-data-transfer meters the amount of outbound data transfer on points of presence (POPs) and pay-by-peak-bandwidth meters the peak bandwidth on POPs.
Alibaba Cloud CDN charges users by account ID.
The following figure shows the procedure of using Alibaba Cloud CDN.
Billing methods and pricing
Alibaba Cloud CDN supports the pay-as-you-go (default) and subscription billing methods. You can use resource plans to offset fees of commonly used resources.
Billing method | Description | Pricing |
Pay-as-you-go | You are charged for the actual usage of each billable item. Fees are paid after you use resources. This billing method is ideal for scenarios in which resource usage is difficult to predict. | For more information about the pricing of each billable item, visit the Alibaba Cloud CDN pricing page. |
Subscription | You can purchase resource plans that cover specific billable items at favorable prices. Resources are consumed before fees are offset by resource plans. Resource plans are ideal for scenarios in which resource usage is easy to predict. Note
| For more information about the pricing of resource plans, visit the resource plan buy page. |
Billable items
Alibaba Cloud CDN generates bills for basic services and value-added services. The following figure shows the billable items.
Basic services (required): You can choose between pay-by-data-transfer and pay-by-bandwidth. For more information, see Billing of basic services.
Value-added services (optional): You can use one or more value-added services, such as HTTPS requests for static content and QUIC requests. For more information, see Billing of value-added services.
Billing cycles
The following table describes the billing cycles of Alibaba Cloud CDN.
Billing cycle | Bill release time | Billable item | |
Hourly | You are charged on an hourly basis. A bill is issued about 3 to 4 hours after the end of a billing cycle. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system. | Basic services | |
Value-added services | |||
Daily | You are charged on a daily basis. The bill of the current day is issued around 04:00 on the next day. The time when bills are issued is determined by the system. | Basic services | |
Billable regions
The data transfer fee is calculated based on the unit price for the billable region where the data transfer is generated. Alibaba Cloud CDN has deployed sufficient redundant POPs in each billable region to ensure that each POP belongs only to one billable region.
Billable regions are listed in the following table. For more information about the distribution of main POPs, see POP distribution.
Billable region | Abbreviation | Region/Country |
Chinese mainland | CN | Chinese mainland |
North America | NA | United States |
Europe | EU | Ukraine, UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Germany, and Spain |
Asia Pacific 1 | AP1 | Hong Kong (China), Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and Malaysia |
Asia Pacific 2 | AP2 | Indonesia, India, Republic of Korea, and Pakistan |
Asia Pacific 3 | AP3 | Australia |
Middle East and Africa | MEAA | Türkiye, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Nigeria, and South Africa |
South America | SA | Brazil |
Pricing
For more information about the pricing of each billable item, visit the Alibaba Cloud CDN pricing page.
For more information about the pricing of resource plans, visit the resource plan buy page.
We recommend that you choose resource plans based on the features and services that you want to use, and your business volume. For more information, see Outbound data transfer plan, Guidelines for choosing resource plans, and Rules for applying resource plans.
Alibaba Cloud CDN outbound data transfer plans are applied only when the pay-by-data-transfer metering method is used. Otherwise, the data transfer plans are suspended until you switch back to the pay-by-data-transfer metering method. For more information about how to change the metering method, see Change the metering method.
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