Billing
1 . Billing method
Global Traffic Manager (GTM) supports the subscription billing method.
2 . Billing cycle
GTM charges you based on a specified duration starting from the purchase date in your purchase plan. You can specify one month, three months, six months, one year, two years, or three years for the subscription duration.
3 . Billing formulas
Total cost = GTM instance + Detection task plan (optional) + SMS notification plan (optional)
GTM Standard Edition + 0 Detection task plan + 0 SMS notification plan = USD 20/month
GTM Standard Edition + 100 Detection task plans = USD 20/month + USD 12/month = USD 32/month
3.1 Pricing of GTM instances
Edition | Price | Description |
Standard Edition | USD 20/month | USD 20 per month is required to purchase a GTM Standard Edition instance. |
Ultimate Edition | USD 140/month | USD 140 per month is required to purchase a GTM Ultimate Edition instance. |
3.2 Pricing of detection task plans
If you enable the health check feature on the Internet, you must select a detection point for an IP address. Then, you can create a detection task. One detection task plan allows you to create 100 detection tasks. You must specify the number of detection tasks when you purchase a GTM instance. Detection task plans are used with the GTM instance. You cannot separately purchase and use detection task plans.
Version | Price |
Standard Edition | USD 12 per month for each 100 detection tasks |
Ultimate Edition | USD 48 per month for each 100 detection tasks |
Features of GTM editions
Feature | Standard Edition | Ultimate Edition |
Failover period | Assume that the health check interval is set to 1 minute, the global TTL is set to 60 seconds, and the number of consecutive failures is set to 3. GTM can identify failures within about 4 minutes and then initiate a switchover. The switchover takes effect across the network within about 60 seconds. The actual failover period depends on the caching time that is set by carriers. | Assume that the health check interval is set to 15 seconds, the global TTL is set to 10 seconds, and the number of consecutive failures is set to 3. GTM can identify failures within about 1 minute and then initiate a switchover. The switchover takes effect across the network within about 10 seconds. The actual failover period depends on the caching time that is set by carriers. |
Health check interval | 1 minute | 15 seconds |
Access policy | Access policy based on geographical locations | Access policy based on geographical locations and access policy based on latency |
Minimum global TTL | 60 seconds | 1 second |
Granularities of the location-based access policy | You can use GTM based on carriers. The Chinese carriers include China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, Dr. Peng, and Alibaba Cloud. You can also use GTM based on regions. Chinese regions include North China, South China, East China, Northeast China, Northwest China, Southwest China, and Central China. GTM is internationally provided based on continents. | You can use GTM based on carriers. The Chinese carriers include China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, Dr. Peng, China Education Network, China Broadcast Network, and Alibaba Cloud are supported in all Chinese provinces and municipalities. You can also use GTM based on regions. Chinese regions include North China, South China, East China, Northeast China, Northwest China, Southwest China, and Central China. Outside China, GTM is provided based on continents and countries. |
Maximum number of address pools for each instance | 10 | 20 |
Maximum number of access policies for each instance | 10 | 20 |
Default number of health check tasks | 100 per month | 100 per month |
Default number of SMS notifications | 1,000 per month | 2,000 per month |
Subscription expiration
GTM notifies you of instance expiration seven days, three days, and one day before the expiration date.
If you do not renew the subscription before it expires, GTM automatically stops.
GTM instance is released and data is deleted seven days after expiration.