Target User | Free Period | Free Tier | How to Get It |
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New user | Six months after COS service activation | A limited amount of STANDARD storage usage is provided automatically by COS free of charge after COS service activation. For more information, please see Free Tier | Activate COS |
Note:
The free tier only applies to STANDARD storage. It is not applicable to other billable items, including STANDARD_IA/ARCHIVE storage, requests and traffic.
COS is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis as detailed below:
Billing Method | Description |
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Pay-As-You-Go | This is the default COS billing method. For all the available regions, please see Regions and Access Endpoints |
COS adopts pay-as-you-go pricing. For more information on COS pricing, please see Product Pricing.
Billable items in COS include storage usage, requests, data retrievals, traffic, and management features as shown below. For more information, please see Billable Items.
The billing cycle and sequence of COS fees are as detailed below:
Billable Item | Billing Cycle | Description | Billing Sequence | |
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Storage usage fees | Monthly | The fees for one month are deducted on the 1st day of the following month and billed on the 3rd to 5th day of the following month | Free tier > Pay-as-you-go, or only pay-as-you-go in case of no free tier | |
Request fees | Read/Write request fees | Monthly | Pay-as-you-go | |
Retrieve request fees in DEEP ARCHIVE | Pay-as-you-go | |||
Object monitoring fees in INTELLIGENT TIERING | Pay-as-you-go | |||
Data retrieval fees | STANDARD_IA | Monthly | The fees for one month are deducted on the 1st day of the following month and billed on the 3rd to 5th day of the following month | Pay-as-you-go |
ARCHIVE | ||||
DEEP ARCHIVE | Daily | Fees for the day are calculated and billed on the following day | Pay-as-you-go | |
Traffic fees | Daily | Fees for the day are calculated and billed on the following day | Pay-as-you-go | |
Management feature fees | Inventory feature fees | Daily | Fees for the day are calculated and billed on the following day | Pay-as-you-go |
Select feature fees | Daily | Fees for the day are calculated and billed on the following day | Pay-as-you-go | |
Batch operation fees | Daily | Fees for the day are calculated and billed on the following day | Pay-as-you-go | |
Object tagging fees | Daily | Fees for the day are calculated and billed on the following day | Pay-as-you-go |
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