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Data Transfer Plan:Purchase data transfer plan

Last Updated:Jan 16, 2026

Data Transfer Plans are easy-to-use and cost-effective resource plans. After purchase, a data transfer plan takes effect immediately and automatically offsets the data transfer fees for multiple pay-by-traffic cloud services until the plan is depleted or expires.

Before you begin

Before purchasing a data transfer plan, note the following:

  • Each Alibaba Cloud account is limited to 200 active data transfer plans. This quota cannot be increased. Select a plan size that meets your requirements.

  • The regions that a data transfer plan covers are as follows:

    Click to view the mapping between areas and regions

    Data Transfer Plan Area

    Available In

    Chinese Mainland

    China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Nanjing - Local Region), China (Wuhan - Local Region), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu)

    Excluded: China (Fuzhou - Local Region)

    China (Hong Kong)

    China (Hong Kong)

    Outside Chinese Mainland

    Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Thailand (Bangkok), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London)

  • A data transfer plan offsets data transfer fees for multiple pay-by-traffic cloud products.

    Click to view supported products and traffic types

    Product

    Traffic type

    Description

    ECS

    IPv4

    IPv4 traffic from static public IP addresses of Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances that are billed by data transfer.

    EIP

    IPv4 traffic from Elastic IPs (EIPs) that are billed by data transfer and bound to the following cloud resources (excluding EIPs of BGP Multi-ISP Pro):

    • ECS instances in a virtual private cloud (VPC)

    • Secondary elastic network interfaces (ENIs)

    • SLB instances, including the following:

      • Private-facing Classic Load Balancer (CLB) instances in a VPC

      • Application Load Balancer (ALB) instances

      • Network Load Balancer (NLB) instances

    • NAT Gateway instances

    • High-availability virtual IP addresses (HaVips)

    CLB

    IPv4 traffic from public IPs of public-facing CLB instances that are billed by data transfer.

    Internet Shared Bandwidth

    IPv4 traffic from Internet Shared Bandwidth instances that are billed data transfer. This does not include Data Transfer over BGP Pro Lines.

    IPv6 gateway

    IPv6

    Public IPv6 traffic from IPv6 Internet bandwidth that is billed by data transfer.

Purchase a plan

  1. Log on to the Data Transfer Plan buy page.

  2. On the buy page, configure the as follows. Then, click Buy Now and complete the payment.

    Parameter

    Description

    Traffic Package Size

    Select a plan size.

    Available sizes vary based on the selected validity period. For specific options, see the buy page.

    Plan

    Select the package for the Data Transfer Plan.

    • China mainland: Covers regions in the China mainland.

    • Hong Kong: Covers the China (Hong Kong) region.

    • Overseas: Covers overseas regions.

    Expiry Date

    Select the validity period for the plan

    • 1 Month

    • 1 Year

    After a data transfer plan expires, it is not eligible for a refund. Any unused data allowance will be cleared and cannot be transferred to another plan.

    Quantity

    Enter the number of plans you want to purchase.

Reference

To view the usage details for your data transfer plan, see Query usage and bills.