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Billable Items

The service fees for TKE consists of two parts, cluster management fees and Tencent Cloud service resources fees.

• Cluster management fees

  Note：

  Tencent Cloud starts charging for managed clusters from 10:00, March 21, 2022 (UTC +8). See Starting Charging for Managed Clusters.

Managed clusters incur the cluster management fees based on their cluster models. For more information, see Cluster Management Fees.

• Tencent Cloud service resources fees
  Other Tencent Cloud services resources (such as CVM, CBS and CLB) created during the usage of TKE will be charged based on the billing mode for each resource. For more information, see Tencent Cloud Services Resources Fees.

Cluster Management Fees

Billing mode

The billing mode of pay-as-you-go is usually adopted for TKE.

Recommendations for small clusters

• If your cluster has only a few nodes (less than 20), we highly recommend you use Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). With EKS, you can deploy workloads and pay for actual container usage, with no need to purchase nodes and pay cluster management fees.
• You can choose to migrate your existing TKE clusters as needed in the following ways:
  • Conduct smooth business migration through virtual nodes to reduce the number of nodes in the TKE cluster and thereby lower the cluster management fees (such fees are not charged for virtual nodes; for more information, see Pricing below).
  • Completely migrate the TKE cluster to the EKS cluster through the migration tool. You can submit a ticket for assistance.

Pricing

Note：

• The unit prices are varied depending on the region. Please refer to the prices displayed in the console.

• Please read the Purchase Instructions carefully before you choose the specification.

Tencent Cloud Service Resources Fees

Other Tencent Cloud service resources (such as CVM, CBS and CLB) created during the usage of TKE will be charged based on each billing mode. For more information, see billing description for each resource.

Note：

TKE is a declarative service based on Kubernetes. When you do not need CLB, CBS or other IaaS service resources created by TKE, you must delete them in TKE console, otherwise, TKE will re-create them and continue to charge fees. For example, if you delete a CLB instance in CLB console instead of in TKE console, TKE will re-create a CLB instance based on declarative APIs.