Object Storage Service:Pay-as-you-go

Item

Description

Billing rule

You are charged based on the resource usage. Bills are generated and fees are deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account after a billing cycle ends.

Scenario

The pay-as-you-go billing method is suitable for the following scenarios:

• Resource usage frequently fluctuates.

• Your business has short-term requirements on resource usage.

Billable item

The following items support the pay-as-you-go billing method:

• Storage fees

• Traffic fees

• API operation calling fees

• Data processing fees

• Object tagging fees

• Transfer acceleration fees

• Temporary storage fees

• OSS DDoS protection fees

• Data indexing fees

• RTC traffic fees

Billing cycle

You are billed on an hourly basis. The fees are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account. Bills are generally generated after a billing cycle ends. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system.

Pricing

For more information about the pricing of the pay-as-you-go billing method, visit the OSS Pricing page.