Bill Management

Pay-as-you-go Cloud Firewall bills

Bills for the previous day are generated and settled after 18:00 each day (T+1).

1. Log on to the Cloud Firewall console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Settings > Bill Management.

2. Today’s Estimated Bill: The Today’s Estimated Bill section displays the estimated cost for today. Click View Details to view a detailed cost breakdown.

   Note

   This data is an estimate based on usage within the current day and is for reference only. The final charges are subject to the actual bill generated on a T+1 basis.

3. In the Actual Usage section, view the activation status of each billable Cloud Firewall feature, including firewall instance, processed traffic, Log Analysis, Sensitive Data Leak Detection, and Threat Intelligence.

4. View your historical bills at the bottom of the page.

   Item	Description
   Date	The date covered by the bill.
   Instance Fee	The total fee for created Internet Firewall, NAT Firewall, and VPC Firewall instances, including instances managed by the multi-account management feature.
   Traffic Processing Fee	The fee for traffic processed by the firewall, which includes traffic from Internet Firewall, NAT Firewall, and VPC Firewall.
   Feature Fee	The fee for enabled firewall features, including sensitive data leakage detection, threat intelligence, and log analysis.
   Theoretical Fee	The theoretical amount for pay-as-you-go billing. If you have purchased a pay-as-you-go savings plan, charges are deducted from the plan first.
   Bill Details	In the Actions column, click View Details to open the Bill Details page, which shows usage and cost information categorized by hour and feature.

Post-paid bills for Cloud Firewall subscriptions

For Cloud Firewall subscription plans, the Elastic Traffic Inspection and Sensitive Data Leak Detection features are billed post-paid. You can view the billing details on the Bill Management page.

Bills for the previous day are generated and settled after 18:00 each day (T+1).

Procedure

1. Log on to the Cloud Firewall console.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Settings > Bill Management.

3. On the Bill Management page, view the following information.

   Elastic Traffic Inspection

   On the Elastic Traffic Inspection tab, view the post-paid bills generated for this feature.

   Note

   Under the Subscription 2.0 billing method, the burstable protected traffic feature is enabled by default. If your actual service bandwidth exceeds your subscribed bandwidth, the excess traffic is billed post-paid at CNY 0.36 per GB.

   You can configure Burstable Billing Alerts on the Settings > Alert Notification page to receive notifications when your peak bandwidth approaches the subscribed limit.

   Item	Description
   Date	The date covered by the bill.
   Peak Processing Bandwidth	The total peak bandwidth processed by Internet Firewall, NAT Firewall, and VPC Firewall.
   Peak Bandwidth Time	The specific time when the peak bandwidth occurred.
   Provisioned Throughput Capacity	The subscribed firewall bandwidth limit.
   Elastic Traffic	The amount of traffic that exceeded the subscribed bandwidth limit.
   Theoretical Fee	The fee calculated based on the Elastic Traffic. This amount is for reference only. Final charges are shown on the Billing Management console. For more information, see View and analyze bills.

   Sensitive Data Leak Detection

   When you enable the sensitive data leakage detection feature, you receive a monthly quota of free traffic. Traffic that exceeds this quota is billed post-paid.

   Item	Description
   Date	The date covered by the bill.
   Remaining Free Quota	The remaining free traffic quota for the month.
   Daily Inspected Traffic	The amount of detection traffic used today.
   Billed Traffic	The amount of traffic billed for the day after the free quota was exhausted.
   Theoretical Fee	The fee calculated based on the Billed Traffic.