Billing methods
Recursive Gateway uses a pay-as-you-go billing method. You can purchase resource plans to reduce your costs.
Bills for Recursive Gateway are generated daily.
On the first day of each month, active Recursive Gateway services receive a free quota of 10 million standard HTTP requests, which is equivalent to 20 million UDP/TCP queries. Usage within this quota is free. Any usage that exceeds the free quota is charged.
The free quota is granted monthly and does not roll over to the next month.
Billing rules
Recursive Gateway is billed based on the number of UDP/TCP queries:
Usage that exceeds the free quota is billed at a rate of 0.02 CNY per 10,000 queries.
If you purchase a resource plan, usage is deducted from the plan after being converted to HTTP queries using the formula:
Number of queries * 0.5.
Deduction priority
Data plan billing
You can purchase a Public DNS resource plan to cover pay-as-you-go HTTP request usage.
The prices of the resource plans in the following table are based on the volume of HTTP requests. For billing purposes, two UDP/TCP queries are counted as one HTTP request. To calculate the number of UDP/TCP queries that a plan can cover, multiply its HTTP request quota by two.
Resource plan type | HTTP data plan size (10,000s of requests) | Validity (months) | Data plan price (CNY) | Unit price per HTTP query |
(CNY per 10,000 requests) | ||||
Standard data plan | 1,000 | 12 months | 30 | 0.03 |
Standard data plan | 10,000 | 12 months | 280 | 0.028 |
Standard data plan | 100,000 | 12 months | 2,400 | 0.024 |
Standard data plan | 500,000 | 12 months | 10,000 | 0.02 |
Extra-large data plan | Extra-large capacity | 12 months | For greater discounts, contact us on DingTalk: behladu | |
Resource plans cannot be used to cover pay-as-you-go charges that were incurred before the plan was purchased.
Overdue payments
Alibaba Cloud DNS provides a grace period for overdue payments. During this period, you can continue to use your existing pay-as-you-go services, resource plans, and subscription resources. Service is suspended only after the grace period ends. For more information, see Overdue payment and service suspension.