Purchase data transfer plans

Data transfer plans are easy to use and cost-effective. A data transfer plan immediately takes effect after you complete the payment. After a data transfer plan takes effect, it automatically offsets data transfer that is generated by certain cloud services until the data transfer plan is used up or expires. The services are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.

Background information

Before you purchase data transfer plans, take note of the following rules:

Each Alibaba Cloud account can own up to 200 valid data transfer plans. You cannot increase the quota. When you purchase data transfer plans, specify the specifications of the data transfer plans based on your business requirements.

When you purchase data transfer plans, you must specify the area where the data transfer plans are applied. Each area consists of different regions.

View the areas and regions that support data transfer plans.

Area	Region
Chinese mainland	China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), and China (Nanjing - Local Region)
Hong Kong (China)	China (Hong Kong)
Outside China	US (Virginia), US (Silicon Valley), Germany (Frankfurt), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Philippines (Manila), UK (London), Indonesia (Jakarta), Japan (Tokyo), Thailand (Bangkok), and South Korea (Seoul)

Data transfer plans can be used to offset data transfer that is generated by multiple cloud services. The cloud services are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.

View the services and data transfer types that are supported by data transfer plans.

Supported service	Data transfer type	Description
Elastic Compute Service (ECS)	IPv4 data transfer	IPv4 data transfer that is generated by the static public IP addresses of ECS instances. The IP addresses are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.
Elastic IP Address (EIP)		IPv4 data transfer that is generated by EIPs when the EIPs are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis and are associated with cloud resources described in the following section. Data transfer plans do not apply to IPv4 data transfer that is generated by EIPs of BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro. ECS instances in virtual private clouds (VPCs) Secondary elastic network interfaces (ENIs) Server Load Balancer (SLB) instances which include Classic Load Balancer (CLB) instances in VPCs Application Load Balancer (ALB) instances Network Load Balancer (NLB) instances NAT gateways High-availability virtual IP addresses (HAVIPs)
CLB		IPv4 data transfer that is generated by the public IP addresses of CLB instances. The IP addresses are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.
Internet Shared Bandwidth		IPv4 data transfer that is generated by Internet Shared Bandwidth instances. The Internet Shared Bandwidth instances are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.
IPv6 Gateway	IPv6 data transfer	IPv6 data transfer that is generated by IPv6 Internet bandwidth. The IPv6 Internet bandwidth is billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.

Go to the buy page of data transfer plans.

On the buy page, specify the required parameters of data transfer plans described in the following table, click Buy Now, and then complete the payment.

Parameter	Description
Traffic Package Size	Specify the specification of the data transfer plans. The specification that you can select depends on the subscription duration of the data transfer plans. The actual price displayed on the buy page shall prevail.
Plan	Specify the area to which the data transfer plans are applied. Valid values: China mainland: The data transfer plans are applied to regions within the Chinese mainland. Hong Kong: The data transfer plans are applied to the China (Hong Kong) region. Overseas: The data transfer plans are applied to regions outside China.
Expiry Date	Specify the subscription duration of the data transfer plans. Valid values: 1Month 1Year You cannot request a refund for an expired data transfer plan. After a data transfer plan expires, the remaining amount of data transfer is cleared and cannot be transferred to other data transfer plans.
Quantity	Specify the number of data transfer plans that you want to purchase.

References

For more information about how to query the usage details of data transfer plans, see Query bills and resource usage.