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    Pay-As-You-Go

    Last updated: 2021-10-21 15:24:09
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      COS is billed at pay-as-you-go rates by default for all regions. Users are charged according to their actual storage usage, requests, traffic, and other billable items on a daily or monthly basis.

      Pricing

      COS is billed on demand. For detailed pricing, please see Product Pricing.

      Billing Items

      The billable items of COS and their calculation formulas are as follows:

      Billable Item Description Calculation Formula
      Storage usage Calculated based on the storage used at a unit price that varies by storage class
    • Storage usage fees = Unit price x Monthly storage usage
    • Monthly storage usage = Sum of "daily storage usage" in the month/Number of days in the month
    • Daily storage usage = Sum of "5-minute usage"/288 (number of statistical points)
      • Requests Calculated based on the number of requests at a unit price that varies by storage class Request fees = Unit price per 10,000 requests x Monthly accumulated number of requests/10,000
      Data retrievals Calculated based on the volume of data retrieved at a unit price that varies by storage class. This billable item applies when data in STANDARD_IA and ARCHIVE storage classes is downloaded Data retrieval fees = Unit price per GB x Monthly amount of data retrieved
      Traffic Calculated based on the public network downstream traffic, CDN origin-pull traffic, cross-region replication traffic, and global acceleration traffic at a unit price that varies by traffic type Traffic fees = Unit price per GB x Daily accumulated traffic
      Management feature fees Fees generated by management features that you enabled and used, including inventory, extraction, batch operation, and object tagging Inventory fees = Number of objects listed/One million x Unit price
      COS extraction fees = Unit price per GB x Daily accumulated extraction traffic
      Batch operation fees include job fees and object operation fees.
    • Job fees = Number of jobs created x Unit price
    • Object operation fees = Number of objects operations/10,000 x Unit price
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      Object tagging fees = Number of tags/10,000 x Unit price
      Note：

      For more information about billable items and the billing restrictions, please see Billable Items.

      Billing Cycle

      COS is billed on a daily or monthly basis. Different billable items might have different billing cycles as follows:

      Billable Item Billing Cycle Description
      Storage usage Monthly Fees incurred last month will be settled on the 1st day of the month
      Requests Monthly Fees incurred last month will be settled on the 1st day of the month
      Data retrievals Monthly Fees incurred last month will be settled on the 1st day of the month
      Traffic Daily Fees incurred yesterday (00:00−23:59:59) will be settled every day
      Management features Daily Fees incurred yesterday (00:00−23:59:59) will be settled every day
      Note：


      The bill in the system might have a certain delay. The daily or monthly bill will be generated at around 08:00.

      Examples

      John Smith uploaded 100 GB of objects in the STANDARD storage class on March 1, 2019, and downloaded 10 GB of data over a public network on March 15. Apart from these operations, John did not perform any other operations in March. The following fees were incurred in March:

      • STANDARD storage usage fees: The total storage used in the month was 100 GB.
      • Traffic fees: The total public network downstream traffic generated in the month was 10 GB.
      • Request fees: The number of uploading and downloading requests in the month.
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