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This topic describes the billing for Intelligent Search.

Note

The actual prices are subject to the official pricing on the Alibaba Cloud website. For more information, see Alibaba Cloud Pricing.

Intelligent Search billing

Billing description

After you enable the index service, the system allocates storage space and begins to charge storage fees.
After your index service subscription (Trial or Enterprise Edition) expires, your search library enters a 7-day grace period. After this period, the library is automatically deleted and you can no longer perform searches.

Billing rules

Intelligent search is billed based on storage volume, storage days, and search times. For the storage unit of each search type, see the pricing table below. If the storage capacity is less than one storage unit, it is calculated as one storage unit, and if the storage time is less than one day, it is calculated as one day. The storage capacity of each picture retrieved by the large model is calculated as the media duration of 3 seconds. If the number of searches per hour is less than 1,000, it is calculated as 1,000. No charge for search or storage failure.

Billing cycles

Storage is billed on a daily basis. Alibaba Cloud measures your usage from the previous day and generates a bill on the following day. The actual billing time is determined by the system.
Searches are billed on an hourly basis. Alibaba Cloud measures your usage from the previous hour and generates a bill in the following hour. The actual billing time is determined by the system.

Pricing

Search type	Billable item	Price	Unit
LLM search - Shared instance for up to 1,000 hours of media assets	Vector feature storage	48	CNY/day/1,000 hours of storage/library
	Search	0.08	CNY/1,000 searches
LLM search - Dedicated instance (up to 10,000 hours of media assets)	Vector feature storage	550	CNY/day/10,000 hours of storage/library
	Search	0.08	CNY/1,000 searches
LLM search - Dedicated instance (more than 10,000 hours of media assets)	Vector feature storage	650	CNY/day/10,000 hours of storage/library
	Search	0.08	CNY/1,000 searches
Tag search	Tag information storage	0.025	CNY/day/10,000 media assets/library
Tag search	Search	0.04	CNY/1,000 searches
Face search - Shared (up to 1 million faces)	Face information storage	3.00	CNY/day/1 million faces/library
Face search - Shared (up to 1 million faces)	Search	0.05	CNY/1,000 searches
Face search - Dedicated (more than 1 million faces)	Face information storage	5.00	CNY/day/1 million faces/library
Face search - Dedicated (more than 1 million faces)	Search	0.05	CNY/1,000 searches

Billing examples

Example 1

Assume you enabled the Intelligent Search service in a region in China. The search type is 'LLM search - Dedicated instance (more than 10,000 hours of media assets)'. You have stored 19,000 hours of media assets. According to the billing rules, this is rounded up to 20,000 hours of storage resources, which is equivalent to two 10,000-hour units. The vector storage fee for one day is calculated as follows: CNY 650 (per day per 10,000 hours of storage) × 1 day × 2 units = CNY 1,300.

Example 2

Assume you use the Intelligent Search service in the Chinese mainland region between 8:00 and 9:00 on a given day. The search type is 'LLM search - Dedicated instance (more than 10,000 hours of media assets)'. You perform 900 LLM searches. According to the billing rules, this is rounded up to 1,000 searches. The search fee is calculated as follows: CNY 0.08 (per 1,000 searches) × 1 units = CNY 0.08.

Example 3

Assume you enabled the Intelligent Search service in a region in China. The search type is 'Face search - Dedicated (more than 1 million faces)'. You have stored 1.99 million faces. According to the billing rules, this is rounded up to 2 million faces, which is equivalent to two 1-million-face units. The face storage fee for one day is calculated as follows: CNY 5.00 (per day per 1 million faces) × 1 day × 2 units = CNY 10.00.