VOD billing methods, billable items, and pricing-ApsaraVideo VOD(VOD)-阿里云帮助中心

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Billable items

VOD billable items: VOD billable items - China site

VOD supports pay-as-you-go (default) and subscription-based resource plans for common paid features.

Pay-as-you-go: You are charged based on actual usage. Suitable for variable workloads.
Resource plans (subscription): Purchase discounted plans in advance. Usage is deducted from plans at settlement. Suitable for stable workloads.

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Resource plans are discounted compared to pay-as-you-go.
If a resource plan expires or its quota is exceeded, overage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Purchase resource plans.

Billable item prices: VOD pricing. Short Video SDK Professional Edition: Short Video SDK Professional Edition pricing.

Resource plan prices: Resource plan pricing.

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Choose the resource plan that best fits your workload. Resource plans.
Data transfer plans apply only when the acceleration billing method is pay-by-data-transfer. Otherwise, the plans are frozen. Switch between billing methods.

Resource Plan	Description	Purchase
ApsaraVideo VOD storage plan	Deducts Standard storage usage. Region-specific.	Purchase
ApsaraVideo VOD transcoding plan	General-purpose transcoding plan: Covers Standard Transcoding (H.264 LD) fees. Other output specifications are deducted at a ratio. Available in all regions with region-specific ratios. Narrowband HD 1.0 transcoding plan: Covers Narrowband HD 1.0 (H.264 LD) fees. Other output specifications are deducted at a ratio. Available in all regions with region-specific ratios.	Purchase
ApsaraVideo VOD data transfer plan	Deducts acceleration traffic. Chinese mainland plans also cover storage outbound traffic; other regions cover acceleration traffic only. Region-specific.	Purchase
ApsaraVideo VOD Content Moderation Duration Package	Deducts automated review processing usage.	Purchase

VOD billing cycles:

Billing cycle	Fee deduction and bill generation	Applicable billable items
Hourly	Fees deducted hourly. Bills generated approximately 7 hours after each cycle.	Storage transfer acceleration (upload and download) Billing for media asset storage Storage outbound traffic
Hourly	Fees deducted hourly. Bills generated 3–4 hours after each cycle.	Billing for Video Composition Standard transcoding and Narrowband HD 1.0 transcoding (video transcoding) Pay-by-data-transfer (video acceleration) Automated review DataQ - Smart Tag Service Media fingerprint DRM Billing Billing for real-time logs
Daily	Previous day's bill generated and fees deducted after 00:00 daily.	Pay-by-peak-bandwidth (video acceleration)
Monthly	Previous month's bill generated and fees deducted after 00:00 on the 1st of each month.	Pay-by-95th-percentile-bandwidth (video acceleration)
Annual	Fees charged at purchase. Bills generated within 2–3 hours. Valid for one year.	Short Video SDK Billing

Pay-as-you-go	Resource plans	Other references
Billing of basic services Billing of value-added services	Resource plans Purchase resource plans Deduction rules for resource plans View the usage details of resource plans	Overdue payments Renewal policy Query usage Query bills Billing FAQ