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    Server Load Balancer:CLB billing overview

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    Server Load Balancer:CLB billing overview

    Last Updated:Nov 08, 2024

    Classic Load Balancer (CLB) supports the pay-as-you-go billing method. This topic describes the metering methods and billable items of CLB.

    Metering methods

    • Pay-as-you-go CLB instances support two metering methods: pay-by-LCU and pay-by-specification.

    • CLB supports the following metering methods for Internet data transfers: pay-by-bandwidth and pay-by-data-transfer.

    Note

    Adjustments are made to the billable items of CLB. Beginning 00:00:00 (UTC+8), December 1, 2024, the following new billable items are used by pay-as-you-go CLB instances:

    • Instance fee is renamed public IP retention fee.

    • A billable item instance fee is added.

    For more information, see CLB billing adjustments.

    Billing method

    Metering method

    Instance type

    Metering method of Internet data transfer

    Scenario

    Pay-as-you-go

    Pay-by-LCU

    Internet-facing

    Pay-by-data-transfer

    • Scenarios in which workloads expect periodic or large fluctuations, such as the gaming and video industries.

    • Scenarios that expect temporary traffic spikes.

    Internal-facing

    N/A

    Pay-by-specification

    Internet-facing

    Pay-by-data-transfer

    • Scenarios in which traffic volumes remain relatively stable.

    • Workloads expect temporary traffic spikes.

    Pay-by-bandwidth

    Internal-facing

    N/A

    Billable items

    The following figure shows the billable items of a pay-as-you-go CLB instance.

    Billing_items

    Billing cycles

    The following table describes the billing cycles supported by CLB.

    Billing cycle

    Fee deduction time and bill generation time

    Billable item

    Hourly

    You are charged on an hourly basis. A bill is generated about 1 hour after the end of a billing cycle. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system.

    A pay-as-you-go CLB instance is billed based on the following billable items:

    • Instance fee

    • LCU fee

    • Specification fee

    • Data transfer fee

    For more information, see Pay-as-you-go.

    Daily

    You are charged on a daily basis. A bill is typically generated in the early morning of the next day. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system.

    Bandwidth fee (pay-as-you-go)

    For more information, see Pay-as-you-go.

    Pricing

    For more information about the pricing of each CLB billable item, see Pay-as-you-go. The prices on the buy page shall prevail.

    You can use the CLB LCU Calculator to estimate the number of LCUs consumed by your CLB service.

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