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Content Recognition Expenses

Last updated: 2024-01-31 16:39:39
    Integrating a plethora of powerful features from Tencent Cloud AI, the Cloud Infinite (CI) provides value-added services like QR code recognition, image tagging, image quality assessment, and face recognition for data in Cloud Object Storage (COS). It has been widely used in many scenarios, including e-commerce websites, social apps, photo apps, video websites, etc., which facilitates effective content management for users.
    The content recognition fees include fees of QR Code Recognition, Image tagging, Assess Quality and Face Recognition and other services. The details are as follows:
    Billing Item
    Description
    Billing Cycle
    Applicable Billing Mode
    QR Code Recognition
    Fees incurred by QR code recognition performed on images. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
    Billed Monthly
    Pay-as-you-go
    Image Tagging
    Fees incurred by using the image tagging service (displayed as content recognition fees in the bill). Such fees are charged by the number of identification times.
    Assess Quality
    Fees incurred as a result of performing a quality assessment on images, Such fees are charged by tthe number of evaluation times.
    Face Recognition
    Fees incurred for the recognition of faces depicted in the images, including face detection, special effects (beauty enhancement, gender switch, age transformation, portrait segmentation, etc.). Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
    Liveness Recognition
    Fees incurred for conducting Electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) on images. Such fees are charged by number of successful API calls.
    Recognize Car
    Fees incurred for the execution of VEHICLEOCR on images, which includes: license plate detection and vehicle detection. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
    ID Card OCR
    Fees incurred by executing OCR on images, encompassing General Text Recognition (General Basic OCR、General Accurate OCR、General Efficient OCR、Handwriting OCR). Such fees are charged by the number of identification times.
    Image Search
    Fees incurred by searching for images, including image indexing and image search. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
    Image Repair
    Fees incurred by image repair. Such fees are charged by the number of usages.
    AI General Matting
    Fees incurred by image matting performed on images. Such fees are charged by the number of usage times.
    Logo Recognition
    Fees incurred by recognizing logos in the images. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
    Speech Analysis
    Fees incurred by analyzing textual content and offering functions such as word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging. Such fees are charged by the number of usage times.
    Body Recognition
    Fees incurred by recognizing human bodies in the images. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition.
    Text Translation
    Fees incurred by the translation of documents and text. Such fees are charged by the number of translated characters.
    Image Translation
    Fees incurred by translating images. Such fees are charged by the number of image translation times.
    Image Super Resolution
    Fees incurred by reconstructing a high-resolution image from a low-resolution one. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
    
    Segment Video Body
    Fees incurred by analyzing the input video, identifying the portrait area segmentation and generating output videos. Such fees are charged by the duration of the output video.
    Image Enhance
    Fees incurred by overall image enhancements. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
    Colorize Image
    Fees incurred by coloring black and white images with one click. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
    Change Image Size
    Fees incurred by using intelligent analysis to identify the main content in an image and cropping it to fit various size requirements. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
    Note:
    The billing components of content recognition adopts a progressive tiered pricing structure, with prices varying with different usage volumes.
    For instance: If User A has made 30,000 identity card recognition requests this month, the actual fee would be: 10,000 * 0.0237 + (30,000 - 10,000) * 0.0158 = 589 USD.

    Pricing

    Image tagging

    Number of Monthly Reviewed Images(N)
    Price
    N ≤ 3 million
    0.22 USD/1,000 images
    3 million < N ≤ 15 million
    0.2 USD/1,000 images
    15 million < N ≤ 30 million
    0.18 USD/1,000 images
    N > 30 million
    0.16 USD/1,000 images
    Note:
    Image tagging adopts a scoring mechanism, with a score of between 0 and 100 for each image.

    Assess Quality

    Monthly assessment volume
    Price
    0 < assessment volume ≤ 1 million
    0.45 USD/1,000 times
    1 million < assessment volume ≤ 3 million
    0.37 USD/1,000 times
    3 million < assessment volume ≤ 15 million
    0.3 USD/1,000 times
    Assessment volume > 15 million
    0.22 USD/1,000 times

    Face Recognition

    Detect Face

    Monthly Detection Volume
    Price
    0 < detection volume ≤ 3 million
    0.5 USD/1,000 times
    3 million < detection volume ≤ 15 million
    0.4 USD/1,000 times
    Detection volume > 15 million
    0.3 USD/1,000 times

    Face Effects

    Monthly Call Volume
    Price
    0 < calls ≤ 10,000
    1.58 USD/1,000 times
    10,000 < calls ≤ 100,000
    1.42 USD/1,000 times
    100,000 < calls ≤ 1 million
    1.27 USD/1,000 times
    Calls > 1 million
    1.11 USD/1,000 times

    Liveness Recognition

    Monthly Call Volume
    Price
    0 < calls ≤ 1000
    0.1582 USD/call
    1000 < calls ≤ 10,000
    0.1345 USD/call
    10,000 < calls ≤ 100,000
    0.1187 USD/call
    Calls > 100,000
    0.1076 USD/call

    Recognize Car

    Monthly Recognition Volume
    Price
    0 < recognition volume ≤ 1 million
    0.43 USD/1,000 times
    1 million < recognition volume ≤ 3 million
    0.36 USD/1,000 times
    3 million < recognition volume ≤ 15 million
    0.29 USD/1,000 times
    Recognition volume > 15 million
    0.21 USD/1,000 times

    ID Card OCR

    General Text Recognition

    Recognition Type
    0 < Calls ≤ 10,000
    10,000 < Calls ≤ 100,000
    Above 100,000
    General basic OCR
    0.021 USD/call
    0.014 USD/call
    0.0085 USD/call
    General accurate OCR
    0.071 USD/call
    0.05 USD/call
    0.028 USD/call
    General efficient OCR
    0.012 USD/call
    0.007 USD/call
    0.0045 USD/call
    Handwriting OCR
    0.0224 USD/call
    0.0149 USD/call
    0.009 USD/call
    Note:
    The price varies with different recognition types.

    Card Certificate Recognition (General Billable Item)

    Monthly Recognition Volume
    Price
    0 < recognition volume ≤ 10,000
    0.0237 USD/call
    10,000 < recognition volume ≤ 100,000
    0.0158 USD/call
    Recognition volume > 100,000
    0.009 USD/call
    Note:
    Both ID card recognition and driving license recognition utilize the card recognition billable item.

    Image Search

    Image Indexing

    Monthly Detection Volume
    Price
    0 < detection volume ≤ 999,999
    0.00194 USD/image
    999,999 < detection volume ≤ 2,999,999
    0.00149 USD/image
    2,999,999 < detection volume ≤ 14,999,999
    0.00119 USD/image
    Detection volume > 14,999,999
    0.00112 USD/image

    Image Search

    Monthly Detection Volume
    Price
    0 < detection volume ≤ 999,999
    0.00224 USD/call
    999,999 < detection volume ≤ 2,999,999
    0.00201 USD/call
    2,999,999 < detection volume ≤ 14,999,999
    0.00179 USD/call
    Detection volume > 14,999,999
    0.00149 USD/call

    Other

    Billable Item
    Price
    QR Code Recognition
    0.1493 USD/1,000 times
    Image Repair
    0.0052 USD/call
    AI General Matting
    0.003 USD/call
    Logo Recognition
    0.4478 USD/1,000 times
    Speech Analysis
    0.0003 USD/call
    Body Recognition
    0.2985 USD/1,000 times
    Pet Identification
    0.1493 USD/1,000 times
    Text Translation
    4.478 USD per 1 million characters
    Image Translation
    0.004478 USD/call
    Image Super Resolution
    0.0009 USD/call
    Segment Video Body
    0.1791 USD/min
    Colorize Image
    0.8955 USD/1,000 times
    Image Enhance
    1.194 USD/1,000 times
    Change Image Size
    0.2985 USD/1,000 times

    Billing Examples

    Requirements

    Suppose that user A uploads a batch of images into a bucket, utilizes the content recognition service of CI, and activates the CDN acceleration service. According to usage statistics, the content recognition service has performed 30,000 times of QR code recognition, 10,000 times of face effects, and 10,000 times of ID card recognition, generating 100 GB of CDN origin-pull traffic this month.

    Monthly Fees Calculation

    Billable Item
    Free Usage
    Unit Price
    Billable Usage
    Fees (Unit Price * Billable Usage)
    QR Code Recognition Fees
    No
    0.1493 USD/1,000 times
    30,000 times
    4.479 USD
    Face Effect Fees
    No
    1.58 USD/1,000 times
    10,000 times
    15.8 USD
    ID Card Recognition Fees
    No
    0.0237 USD/call
    10,000 times
    237 USD
    CDN Origin-Pull Fees
    10 GB
    0.02 USD/GB
    100GB
    2 USD
    Monthly Fees
    -
    -
    -
    259.279 USD
    Note:
    The billing sequence for CI is: free usage > pay-as-you-go.
    Storage fees are charged by COS billing.
    After understanding the structure of content recognition fees and instructions regarding billable items, you can assess the amount of resources according to your business needs, then use the CI price calculator for calculation, and finally export the budget list.
    
    
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