This topic describes the billing rules for the billable items of different Smart Access Gateway (SAG) resources.
Billing rules for SAG customer-premises equipment (CPE) instances
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
SAG CPE | One-off payment.
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SAG CPE instance bandwidth | You are charged based on the maximum bandwidth and the bandwidth usage duration of the SAG CPE instance. SAG CPE instance bandwidth fee = Bandwidth unit price (USD per Mbit/s-year) × Maximum bandwidth (Mbit/s) × Usage duration (years) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the bandwidth is used. Note
| Subscription | The bandwidth unit price for an SAG CPE instance varies based on the region. The prices on the buy page shall prevail. |
Billing rules for an SAG vCPE instance
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
SAG vCPE instance | You are charged based on the usage duration of the SAG vCPE instance. SAG vCPE instance fee = Instance unit price (USD/month) × Usage duration (months) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the SAG vCPE instance is used. | Subscription | The unit prices of SAG vCPE instances on the buy page shall prevail. |
SAG vCPE bandwidth | You are charged based on the maximum bandwidth and the bandwidth usage duration of the SAG vCPE instance. SAG vCPE bandwidth fee = Bandwidth unit price (USD per Mbit/s-month) × Maximum bandwidth (Mbit/s) × Usage duration (months) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the bandwidth is used. Note The maximum bandwidth for an SAG vCPE instance must be at least 10 Mbit/s. | Subscription | The bandwidth unit price of an SAG vCPE instance varies based on the region. The prices on the buy page shall prevail. |
Billing rules for an SAG app instance
The prices mentioned in this section are for reference only. The prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Billing rules
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
SAG app instance | You are charged based on the number of client accounts by using a tiered pricing model. For example, if the number of client accounts is n:
| Subscription | For more information about the unit price of an SAG app instance, see Unit price of an SAG app instance (unit: USD per account-month). |
Data transfer fee for an SAG app instance | Each client account is assigned a free quota of 5 GB per month. If the data transfer exceeds 5 GB, you can purchase a data transfer plan to deduct the fee or pay the fee based on the pay-by-data-transfer metering method. | N/A | N/A |
When you use data transfer plans, you are charged based on the number of data transfer plans. Data transfer plans take effect immediately after you purchase them. The validity period of each data transfer plan is one month. | Subscription | Data transfer plans are available in various sizes. For more information about pricing, see Unit prices of data transfer plans (Unit: USD/data transfer plan). | |
If you do not use data transfer plans or the data transfer plans are exhausted, you are charged based on the pay-by-data-transfer metering method. Data transfer fee = Unit price of data transfer (USD/GB) × Amount of data transfer (GB) | Pay-as-you-go | For more information about data transfer unit prices, see Unit prices of data transfer (Unit: USD/GB). |
Notes on the data transfer fee of an SAG app instance
Each client account on an SAG app instance is assigned a free quota of 5 GB per month. If the free quota is exhausted, the data transfer plans that you purchased are used to deduct the fee. If the data transfer plans are exhausted, you are charged based on the pay-by-data-transfer metering method.
Data transfer plans apply to all the client accounts of SAG app instances that belong to your Alibaba Cloud account. If the data transfer of a client account that belongs to your Alibaba Cloud account exceeds the free quota, you can purchase data transfer plans to offset the fee.
The free quota of a client account cannot be shared with another client account.
The free quota of 5 GB refers to the maximum amount of inbound or outbound traffic.
The unused free quota or data transfer plans in a month cannot be transferred to the next month.
Pricing
Table 1. Unit prices of SAG app instances (Unit: USD per account-month)
Number of client accounts | Chinese mainland | Outside the Chinese mainland (excluding Dubai) |
5~100 | 6.96 | 6.96 |
101~1,000 | 5.42 | 5.42 |
Table 2. Unit prices of data transfer plans (Unit: USD/data transfer plan)
Data transfer plan size (unit: GB) | Chinese mainland | Outside the Chinese mainland (excluding Dubai) |
10 | 26 | 26 |
50 | 123 | 123 |
128 | 288 | 288 |
512 | 1,149 | 1,149 |
1,024 | 2,154 | 2,154 |
5,120 | 10,193 | 10,193 |
10,240 | 19,381 | 19,381 |
51,200 | 92,310 | 92,310 |
Table 3. Unit prices of data transfer (Unit: USD/GB)
Unit price of data transfer | Chinese mainland | Outside the Chinese mainland (excluding Dubai) |
Unit price of data transfer | 3.10 | 3.10 |
Billing rules for application acceleration plans
The prices mentioned in this section are for reference only. The prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing method | Pricing |
Bandwidth fee | You are charged based on the maximum bandwidth and the bandwidth usage duration of the application acceleration plan. Application acceleration plan fee = Unit price of the application acceleration plan (USD per Mbit/s-month) × Maximum bandwidth of the application acceleration plan (Mbit/s) × Usage duration (months) The usage duration refers to the total time period during which the bandwidth is used. | Subscription | The unit price of an application acceleration plan is USD 95 per Mbit/s-month. |