- Release Notes
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Console Guide
- Console Overview
- Bucket Management
- Bucket Overview
- Creating Buckets
- Deleting Buckets
- Querying Buckets
- Empty Buckets
- Setting Access Permission
- Setting Bucket Encryption
- Setting Hotlink Protection
- Setting Origin-Pull
- Setting Cross-Origin Access
- Setting Versioning
- Setting up a Static Website
- Setting Lifecycle
- Setting Logging
- Accessing Bucket List Using Sub-Account
- Adding Bucket Policies
- Setting INTELLIGENT TIERING
- Enabling Inventory
- Domain Name Management
- Setting Bucket Tags
- Setting Cross-Bucket Replication
- Enabling Global Acceleration
- Object Management
- Uploading Objects
- Downloading Objects
- Copying Objects
- Viewing Object Information
- Searching for Objects
- Sorting and Filtering Objects
- Direct Upload Archiving
- Modifying Storage Class
- Deleting File Fragments
- Setting Object Access Permission
- Setting Object Encryption
- Custom Headers
- Deleting Objects
- Restoring an Archived Object
- Folder Management
- Data Extraction
- Setting Object Tags
- Batch Operation
- Monitoring Reports
- Data Processing
- Application Integration
- User Tools
- Best Practice
- Overview
- Access Control and Permission Management
- ACL Practices
- Cloud Access Management Practices
- Granting Sub-accounts Access to COS
- Cases of Permission Setting
- Working with COS API Access Policies
- Temporary Key Security Guide for Frontend Direct Upload to COS
- Generating and Using Temporary Keys
- Grant Sub-account Permissions to Pull Tag List
- Granting Sub-account Under One Root Account Permission to Manipulate Buckets Under Another Root Account
- Performance Optimization
- Data Migration
- Accessing COS Using the AWS S3 SDK
- Data Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Direct Data Upload
- Domain Name Management Practice
- Data Security
- Data Verification
- Big Data Practice
- Using COS in the Third-party Applications
- Introduction to COS Data Security Solution
- Developer Guide
- Creating Request
- Bucket
- Object
- Data Management
- Data Disaster Recovery
- Data Security
- Cloud Access Management (CAM)
- Batch Processing
- Monitoring and Alarms
- Global Acceleration
- Data Processing
- Troubleshooting
- API Documentation
- Introduction
- Common Request Headers
- Common Response Headers
- Error Codes
- Request Signature
- Operation List
- Service APIs
- Bucket APIs
- Basic Operations
- Access Control List (acl)
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (cors)
- Lifecycle
- Bucket policy(policy)
- Hotlink protection（referer)
- Tag (tagging)
- Static website(website)
- Intelligent Tiering
- Bucket inventory(inventory)
- Versioning
- Cross-Bucket Replication（replication）
- Log Management(logging)
- Global Acceleration (Accelerate)
- Bucket Encryption (encryption)
- Object APIs
- Batch Operation APIs
- Data Processing APIs
- SDK Documentation
- Android SDK
- SDK Overview
- C SDK
- C++ SDK
- .NET SDK
- Go SDK
- iOS SDK
- Java SDK
- JavaScript SDK
- Node.js SDK
- PHP SDK
- Python SDK
- Mini Program SDK
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Service Level Agreement
- Glossary
- Release Notes
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Console Guide
- Console Overview
- Bucket Management
- Bucket Overview
- Creating Buckets
- Deleting Buckets
- Querying Buckets
- Empty Buckets
- Setting Access Permission
- Setting Bucket Encryption
- Setting Hotlink Protection
- Setting Origin-Pull
- Setting Cross-Origin Access
- Setting Versioning
- Setting up a Static Website
- Setting Lifecycle
- Setting Logging
- Accessing Bucket List Using Sub-Account
- Adding Bucket Policies
- Setting INTELLIGENT TIERING
- Enabling Inventory
- Domain Name Management
- Setting Bucket Tags
- Setting Cross-Bucket Replication
- Enabling Global Acceleration
- Object Management
- Uploading Objects
- Downloading Objects
- Copying Objects
- Viewing Object Information
- Searching for Objects
- Sorting and Filtering Objects
- Direct Upload Archiving
- Modifying Storage Class
- Deleting File Fragments
- Setting Object Access Permission
- Setting Object Encryption
- Custom Headers
- Deleting Objects
- Restoring an Archived Object
- Folder Management
- Data Extraction
- Setting Object Tags
- Batch Operation
- Monitoring Reports
- Data Processing
- Application Integration
- User Tools
- Best Practice
- Overview
- Access Control and Permission Management
- ACL Practices
- Cloud Access Management Practices
- Granting Sub-accounts Access to COS
- Cases of Permission Setting
- Working with COS API Access Policies
- Temporary Key Security Guide for Frontend Direct Upload to COS
- Generating and Using Temporary Keys
- Grant Sub-account Permissions to Pull Tag List
- Granting Sub-account Under One Root Account Permission to Manipulate Buckets Under Another Root Account
- Performance Optimization
- Data Migration
- Accessing COS Using the AWS S3 SDK
- Data Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Direct Data Upload
- Domain Name Management Practice
- Data Security
- Data Verification
- Big Data Practice
- Using COS in the Third-party Applications
- Introduction to COS Data Security Solution
- Developer Guide
- Creating Request
- Bucket
- Object
- Data Management
- Data Disaster Recovery
- Data Security
- Cloud Access Management (CAM)
- Batch Processing
- Monitoring and Alarms
- Global Acceleration
- Data Processing
- Troubleshooting
- API Documentation
- Introduction
- Common Request Headers
- Common Response Headers
- Error Codes
- Request Signature
- Operation List
- Service APIs
- Bucket APIs
- Basic Operations
- Access Control List (acl)
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (cors)
- Lifecycle
- Bucket policy(policy)
- Hotlink protection（referer)
- Tag (tagging)
- Static website(website)
- Intelligent Tiering
- Bucket inventory(inventory)
- Versioning
- Cross-Bucket Replication（replication）
- Log Management(logging)
- Global Acceleration (Accelerate)
- Bucket Encryption (encryption)
- Object APIs
- Batch Operation APIs
- Data Processing APIs
- SDK Documentation
- Android SDK
- SDK Overview
- C SDK
- C++ SDK
- .NET SDK
- Go SDK
- iOS SDK
- Java SDK
- JavaScript SDK
- Node.js SDK
- PHP SDK
- Python SDK
- Mini Program SDK
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Service Level Agreement
- Glossary
Free Tier
| Target User | Free Period | Free Tier | How to Get It |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Billing Method
COS is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis as detailed below:
| Billing Method | Description |
|---|---|
| Pay-As-You-Go | This is the default COS billing method. For all the available regions, please see Regions and Access Endpoints |
Pricing
COS adopts pay-as-you-go pricing. For more information on COS pricing, please see Product Pricing.
Billable Items
Billable items in COS include storage usage, requests, data retrievals, traffic, and management features as shown below. For more information, please see Billable Items.
Billing Cycles
The billing cycle and sequence of COS fees are as detailed below:
| Billable Item | Billing Cycle | Description | Billing Sequence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
Related Links
- For more information on COS fee calculation and billing in different scenarios, please see Billing Examples.
- For more information on arrears processing in COS, data retention and the purge schedule, please see COS Arrears.
- You can estimate the usage of and calculate your pay-as-you-go COS fees using the COS Price Calculator.
- If you have any further questions about COS billing, please see Billing FAQs for answers.
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