Once you have a paid account, you are charged for Information Query Service API calls.
Usage notes
-
The pay-as-you-go (post-paid) model charges you based on actual usage. Alibaba Cloud generates bills daily and automatically deducts the fees from your account.
-
If the discrepancy between your billing data and ours is 1% or greater, technical contacts from both parties will review the data. If the discrepancy is less than 1%, Alibaba Cloud's billing data is final.
Reconciling bills
-
Go to the IQS console - Bills page. In the upper-right corner of the page, click "View Bill", then filter bills for the Information Query Service product.
-
On the Alibaba Cloud bill details page, review your billing details.
-
Important
Usage details: This field shows the name of the billable item and is crucial for reconciling your bill.
The following describes the fields on the Alibaba Cloud bill details page:
-
A product feature is a component of an edition (the billable item). One edition can include multiple product features.
-
The following table maps each product feature to its billable edition.
Product feature
Edition (billable item)
Unit price
Internet Search (Standard)
Internet Search (Standard)
Tiered pricing applies
Internet Search (Express)
Internet Search (Express and Lightweight)
12
Internet Search (Deep)
Vertical Search
50
Multimodal Search (Express)
Multimodal Search (Express)
25
Value-added package
Value-added package
2.8
Webpage Parsing (Standard)
Webpage Parsing (Standard)
2
Webpage Parsing (Enhanced)
Webpage Parsing (Enhanced)
10
POI search (Enhanced)
POI search (Enhanced)
30
Vertical Search (Medical QA)
Internet Search (Standard)
Tiered pricing applies
based on Internet Search (Standard)
Vertical Search (Health Knowledge Graph)
Vertical Search
2
-
-
IQS supports usage tracking by sub-account or caller ID. This lets you allocate costs across multiple sub-accounts or caller IDs under a single main account.
-
On the IQS console - Bills page, go to the Billing Summary section. Select the desired sub-account or caller ID to view its usage statistics. (Usage data for a given day is available the next day.)
-