Pay-as-you-go billing for computing power (user-level, deprecated)

Usage notes

• Creating an instance reserves computing resources. You are billed for reserved resources even when they are idle.

• ENS supports two metering methods for pay-as-you-go instances: pay-by-daily-peak and pay-by-monthly-peak. To switch between them, contact your account manager.

• All pay-as-you-go resources in your account — bandwidth, instances, and cloud disks — share one billing cycle and metering method. If you select pay-by-monthly-95th-percentile-bandwidth for public bandwidth when you first create an instance, the monthly cycle applies to all existing and new pay-as-you-go resources, including NIC bandwidth charges.

• For billing rules for bare metal and heterogeneous computing instances, submit a ticket.

Billable items and pricing

Pay-as-you-go instances are billed for two items: edge vCPUs and edge memory. Prices vary by region.

Pay-by-daily-peak

ENS samples total edge vCPUs and memory across your account every 5 minutes (288 data points per day). The highest value is the daily peak.

Billing method: Pay-as-you-go

Formula:

Fees for an instance of a day = Daily peak vCPUs x Daily vCPU unit price + Daily peak memory (GB) x Daily memory unit price

Billing cycle: Daily. Bills are generated and deducted after 00:00 the next day. Exact timing is system-determined.

Pay-by-monthly-peak

ENS samples total edge vCPUs and memory every 5 minutes (288 data points per day). The highest value is the daily peak. The highest daily peak in the month becomes the monthly peak.

Billing method: Pay-as-you-go

Formula:

Fees for an instance of a month = Monthly peak vCPUs x Monthly vCPU unit price + Monthly peak memory (GB) x Monthly memory unit price x Effective factor

Billing cycle: Monthly. Bills are generated on the first day of the next month. Exact timing is system-determined.

Effective factor = Effective days / Total days in the month