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When you use Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) for network connectivity, you must first create a transit router in the CEN instance and then use the transit router to create network instance connections. Cloud Enterprise Network charges fees for these network instance connections, including:

For intra-region connections, connection fee and traffic processing fee are charged.
For inter-region connections, inter-region bandwidth fee is charged.

Billing item

Billing item	Billing rule	Calculation formula	Minimum billing cycle	Billing method
Connection fee	You are charged based on the number and usage duration of intra-region connections. Intra-region connections include VPC connections, ECR connections, VBR connections, and VPN connections. Usage duration refers to the period from when a network instance connection is created to when it is detached.	Unit price (CNY/unit/hour) × Number of intra-region connections × Usage duration (hours)	1 hour. If the usage duration is less than 1 hour, it is billed as 1 hour.	Pay-as-you-go
Traffic processing fee	You are charged based on the traffic of the transit router to which intra-region connections Inbound. Multicast traffic is not subject to this rule. For more information, see Multicast billing notes.	Unit price (CNY/GB) × Traffic of the transit router to which intra-region connections Inbound (GB)	1 hour
Inter-region bandwidth fee	Select pay-by-data-transfer billing: You are billed based on the inter-region traffic of each transit router Outbound, and the fees are settled by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) product.	Unit price (CNY/GB) × inter-region traffic of the transit router Outbound (GB)	1 hour
Inter-region bandwidth fee	Select pay-by-bandwidth billing: You must first purchase a bandwidth package, and then allocate bandwidth for inter-region connections from the bandwidth package. Each bandwidth package is billed based on the bandwidth value and the subscription duration.	Unit price (CNY/Mbps/month) × Bandwidth value (Mbps) × Subscription duration (month)	1 month	Subscription

How do I choose a billing method for inter-region bandwidth fees?

Pay-by-data-transfer billing: suitable for workloads with large and frequent traffic fluctuations, where bandwidth usage cannot be predicted. Examples: temporary scaling, testing, video conferencing, and real-time gaming.
Pay-by-bandwidth: suitable for businesses that run for a long period of time and have relatively stable traffic peaks. Examples: file transfer, data migration, and data synchronization.

Note

When you perform a POC (Proof of Concept) test on inter-region bandwidth, we recommend that you choose pay-by-traffic billing. Pay-by-traffic billing not only provides a default bandwidth of 1 Gbps, but also rounds the fee down to zero at settlement if the fee incurred within a billing cycle is less than CNY 0.01 (assuming that Link type is Gold, the unit price of the inter-region traffic fee is CNY 0.48/GB, and based on CNY 0.01 ÷ CNY 0.48/GB, the equivalent traffic is approximately 20 MB). This way, you can complete the test without paying the inter-region traffic fee. For more information, see How is the rounding adjustment amount in a bill produced, and what are the rounding rules?.

Connection fees and traffic processing fees are settled on an hourly basis at the top of each hour. If you delete a network instance connection at a time that is not on the hour, the fees for the billing cycle are still generated as usual until the end of the current hour. For example, if you delete a transit router connection at 10:35, the connection fee and traffic processing fee from 10:00 to 11:00 are still charged to your bill.

Pricing

The prices on this page are list prices. For actual purchase prices, refer to the product buy page.

Connection fee

Region	Unit price
China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Chengdu), China (Zhongwei), and China (Wuhan-Local Region)	CNY 0.35 per instance per hour
Singapore, China (Hong Kong), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia (Johor), Indonesia (Jakarta), the Philippines (Manila), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Thailand (Bangkok), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), France (Paris), US (Virginia), US (Silicon Valley), Mexico, UAE (Dubai)	0.40 CNY/instance/hour
Brazil (São Paulo)	0.48 CNY/instance/hour

Traffic processing fee

All regions worldwide except Brazil (São Paulo): 0.13 CNY/GB.
Brazil (São Paulo): CNY 0.156/GB.

Inter-region bandwidth fee

Pay-by-traffic

When pay-by-traffic billing is selected for inter-region bandwidth, the fees are settled by CDT.

Service level: Gold

	Inbound region
Outbound region	Chinese mainland	Asia-Pacific	Europe	North America	South America	Middle East
Chinese mainland	CNY 0.48 per GB	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 5.6 per GB
Asia-Pacific	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 0.525 per GB	CNY 0.525 per GB	CNY 0.525 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB
Europe	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 0.525 per GB	CNY 0.131 per GB	CNY 0.35 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB
North America	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 0.525 per GB	CNY 0.35 per GB	CNY 0.131 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB
South America	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB
Middle East	CNY 5.6 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB	CNY 2.5 per GB

The price from Region A to Region B is the same as the price from Region B to Region A.

Service level: Platinum

	Inbound region
Outbound region	Chinese mainland	Asia-Pacific	Europe	North America	South America	Middle East
Chinese mainland	CNY 0.72 per GB	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 8.4 per GB
Asia-Pacific	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 0.788 per GB	CNY 0.788 per GB	CNY 0.788 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB
Europe	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 0.788 per GB	CNY 0.197 per GB	CNY 0.525 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB
North America	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 0.788 per GB	CNY 0.525 per GB	CNY 0.197 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB
South America	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB
Middle East	CNY 8.4 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB	CNY 3.75 per GB

The price from region A to region B is the same as the price from region B to region A.

Note

For a list of supported regions, see Supported regions.
The prices on your bill are final.

Pay-by-bandwidth

When you select pay-by-bandwidth:

The inter-region link type supports only "Gold".
Tiered pricing is adopted, and the total fee is the sum of the fees of all tiers. You can go to bandwidth plan purchase page to directly view the price of a target bandwidth value.

For the unit price of each tier, see the following table:

Interconnected areas	Unit price of inter-region bandwidth tiers (CNY/Mbps/month)
Interconnected areas	(0~100Mbps]	(101~1000Mbps]	>1000Mbps
Chinese mainland-Chinese mainland	220	80	50
Asia Pacific-Asia Pacific	180	120	100
Asia Pacific-North America	470	280	240
Asia Pacific-Europe	470	280	240
Asia Pacific-Middle East	1100	670	580
North America-North America	180	120	100
North America-Europe	470	280	240
North America-Middle East	1100	670	580
Europe-Europe	180	120	100
Europe-Middle East	1100	670	580
Chinese Mainland-Asia Pacific	860	540	480
Chinese mainland-North America	1110	670	580
Chinese mainland-Europe	1000	610	530
Chinese mainland-Middle East	1100	670	580
South America-Asia Pacific	1100	670	580
South America-North America	1100	670	580
South America-Europe	1100	670	580
South America-Middle East	1100	670	580

Inter-region bandwidth tiered pricing example

Assume that you purchased a bandwidth plan instance whose areas to connect are Chinese mainland and Chinese mainland, with a peak bandwidth of 110 Mbps and a subscription duration of 1 month. The fee of the bandwidth plan is:

CNY 220/Mbps/month × 100 Mbps × 1 month + CNY 80/Mbps/month × 10 Mbps × 1 month = CNY 22800

Note

From March 31, 2021, Alibaba Cloud offers a free trial of Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) bandwidth plans for first-time buyers who have Alibaba Cloud accounts. The free trial lasts for 1 month, and the free bandwidth is 5 Mbps or less. For more information about the promotion, see Free trial: subscription bandwidth plans for CEN.

Link type

Inter-region links support two types: "Gold" and "Platinum", which provide traffic transmission services at different service levels:

Link type	Service availability	Applicable business scenarios
Gold	99.95%	Suitable for services that are not sensitive to link quality, such as data synchronization and file transfer.
Platinum	99.995%	Suitable for services that are highly sensitive to link jitter and latency and require high link quality, such as securities trading, online voice services, video conferencing, and real-time gaming.

Billing examples

Example 1: Intra-region VPC interconnection

As shown in the preceding figure, assume that you have created a transit router in the China (Hangzhou) region and connected two VPCs (VPC1 and VPC2) in the region through the transit router. Within one month, VPC1 sent 100 GB of traffic to VPC2 through the transit router, and VPC2 did not send data to VPC1. In this scenario, the fees are calculated as follows:

Connection fee:

2 VPC connections, which are intra-region connections. The unit price of the connection fee is CNY 0.35 per connection per hour (Chinese mainland)
Assume that one month has 30 days, that is, 30 days × 24 hours = 720 hours
CNY 0.35 per connection per hour × 2 VPC connections × 720 hours = CNY 504

Data processing fee:

Unit price of data processing fee CNY 0.13/GB
The traffic that flows from VPC1 to Transit router is 100 GB, and the traffic that flows from VPC2 to Transit router is 0 GB
CNY 0.13/GB×(100 GB+0 GB)=CNY 13

Total for 1 month:

Connection fee CNY 504
Data processing fee CNY 13
Total amount payable: CNY 504 + CNY 13 = CNY 517

Example 2: Inter-region VPC connectivity

As shown in the preceding figure, assume that you have created two transit routers in one Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN), which are located in the China (Hangzhou) and China (Shanghai) regions, respectively. Each region contains one VPC (VPC1 and VPC2), and each VPC is attached to the transit router in the same region. The transit routers in the two regions are connected through an inter-region connection. Within one month, VPC1 sent 100 GB of traffic to VPC2, and VPC2 did not send data to VPC1. In this scenario, the fees are calculated as follows:

Connection fee:

The two VPC connections are intra-region connections, and the unit price of the connection fee is CNY 0.35 per connection per hour (Chinese mainland)
Assume that a month has 30 days, that is, 30 days × 24 hours = 720 hours
CNY 0.35 per connection per hour × 2 VPC connections × 720 hours = CNY 504

Data processing fee:

Data processing fee unit price CNY 0.13 per GB
The traffic that flows from VPC1 into Transit router 1 is 100 GB, and the traffic that flows from VPC2 into Transit router 2 is 0 GB
CNY 0.13/GB × (100 GB + 0 GB) = CNY 13

Inter-region bandwidth fee:

If you select the pay-by-data-transfer billing method and set the link type to Gold, the unit price of Inter-region data transfer is CNY 0.48/GB (for connectivity within the Chinese mainland)
The inter-region traffic that flows from Transit router 1 to Transit router 2 is 100 GB, and the inter-region traffic that flows from Transit router 2 to Transit router 1 is 0 GB
CNY 0.48/GB×(100 GB+0 GB)=CNY 48

Total for 1 month:

Connection fee CNY 504
Data transfer fee CNY 13
Inter-region bandwidth fee CNY 48 (pay-by-traffic)
Total amount to pay: CNY 504 + CNY 13 + CNY 48 = CNY 565

Note

In the same scenario, if inter-region bandwidth is billed based on bandwidth, according to the unit price of bandwidth for communication between regions in the Chinese mainland CNY 220/Mbps/month, assume that the bandwidth value of the bandwidth plan is 10 Mbps. In this case, the inter-region bandwidth fee is CNY 220/Mbps/month × 10 Mbps = CNY 2200. Adding the connection fee and data transfer fee, the total for one month is: CNY 504 + CNY 13 + CNY 2200 = CNY 2717.

FAQ

Although a CCN connection is an intra-region connection, it can be created only by using a basic transit router, and no connection fee or data processing fee is charged.
For questions about cross-account, basic transit routers, and other related topics, see FAQ about billing.