This topic describes the billable items and pricing for Cloud-native API Gateway dedicated instances and networks. You can use this information to understand and estimate your costs.You can receive a 40% discount on your first subscription purchase.
Billing methods
Cloud-native API Gateway supports the following billing methods.
Pay-as-you-go (post-paid): You are billed hourly, and partial hours are billed as full hours. Fees are settled hourly, and a bill is generated every 24 hours. Charges are automatically deducted from your Alibaba Cloud account balance. The actual billing time may vary.
Subscription (pre-paid): You are billed on a monthly basis. A yearly subscription is billed as 12 months. Charges are automatically deducted from your Alibaba Cloud account balance. The actual billing time may vary.
Billable items
The prices in this document are for reference only. For official pricing, see the product purchase page.
The cost of Cloud-native API Gateway consists of three billable items: gateway instance fees, data processing fees, and Internet traffic fees.
Gateway instance fee
Gateway instances support both pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods. Each gateway instance includes a built-in Server Load Balancer (SLB), so you do not need to purchase an SLB separately.
For more information about how to select a gateway instance type, see Capacity overview.
Region | Instance type | Pay-as-you-go unit price (CNY/hour) | Subscription unit price (CNY/month) |
Chinese mainland | apigw.dev.x1 | 0.826 | 416 |
apigw.small.x1 | 1.935 | 975 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 3.702 | 1,866 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 7.007 | 3,531 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 14.025 | 7,069 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 27.621 | 13,921 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 41.216 | 20,773 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 54.812 | 27,625 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 109.193 | 55,033 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 163.575 | 82,442 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 217.956 | 109,850 | |
Finance Cloud | apigw.dev.x1 | 1.57 | 790.4 |
apigw.small.x1 | 3.677 | 1,852.5 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 7.034 | 3,545.4 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 13.313 | 6,708.9 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 26.648 | 13,431.1 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 52.48 | 26,449.9 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 78.31 | 39,468.7 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 104.143 | 52,487.5 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 207.467 | 104,562.7 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 310.793 | 156,639.8 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 414.116 | 208,715 | |
China (Hong Kong) and Japan (Tokyo) | apigw.dev.x1 | 1.239 | 624 |
apigw.small.x1 | 2.903 | 1,462.5 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 5.553 | 2,799 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 10.511 | 5,296.5 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 21.038 | 10,603.5 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 41.432 | 20,881.5 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 61.824 | 31,159.5 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 82.218 | 41,437.5 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 163.789 | 82,549.5 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 245.363 | 123,663 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 326.934 | 164,775 | |
Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), and Germany (Frankfurt) | apigw.dev.x1 | 1.14 | 574.08 |
apigw.small.x1 | 2.67 | 1,345.5 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 5.109 | 2,575.08 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 9.67 | 4,872.78 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 19.355 | 9,755.22 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 38.117 | 19,210.98 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 56.878 | 28,666.74 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 75.641 | 38,122.5 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 150.686 | 75,945.54 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 225.734 | 113,769.96 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 300.779 | 151,593 | |
US (Virginia) and US (Silicon Valley) | apigw.dev.x1 | 0.991 | 499.2 |
apigw.small.x1 | 2.322 | 1,170 | |
apigw.small.x2 | 4.442 | 2,239.2 | |
apigw.small.x4 | 8.408 | 4,237.2 | |
apigw.medium.x1 | 16.83 | 8,482.8 | |
apigw.medium.x2 | 33.145 | 16,705.2 | |
apigw.medium.x3 | 49.459 | 24,927.6 | |
apigw.large.x1 | 65.774 | 33,150 | |
apigw.large.x2 | 131.032 | 66,039.6 | |
apigw.large.x3 | 196.29 | 98,930.4 | |
apigw.large.x4 | 261.547 | 131,820 |
Billing formulas
Pay-as-you-go (post-paid): Fee per instance = Unit price of the instance type × Hours of use.
For example, if you run an
apigw.small.x1instance in the Chinese mainland region for 5 hours, the fee is CNY 1.935 × 5 = CNY 9.675.Subscription (pre-paid): Fee per instance = Unit price of the instance type × Number of months.
For example, if you subscribe to an
apigw.small.x1instance in the Chinese mainland region for one year, the fee is CNY 975 × 12 = CNY 11,700.
Data processing fee
When you create a gateway instance, you can select one of the following network types: Internet, VPC, or Internet + VPC. Data processed over different network types is billed separately. Within a billing cycle, the data processing volume is the total data volume of requests and responses.
Region | Network type | Unit price (CNY/GB/hour) |
Public cloud | Internet | 0.037 |
VPC | 0.049 | |
Finance Cloud | Internet | 0.07 |
VPC | 0.093 |
Billing formulas
Internet: Hourly fee = Data processing volume × Unit price.
For example, if you use a gateway instance for 2 hours and it processes 5 GB of data in the first hour and 10 GB in the second hour, the total data processing fee is (CNY 0.037 × 5) + (CNY 0.037 × 10) = CNY 0.555.
VPC: Hourly fee = Data processing volume × Unit price.
For example, if you use a gateway instance for 2 hours and it processes 5 GB of data in the first hour and 10 GB in the second hour, the total data processing fee is (CNY 0.049 × 5) + (CNY 0.049 × 10) = CNY 0.735.
Internet traffic fee
Internet traffic is billed by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT). For more information, see CDT Internet traffic pricing.