VAU Fee (Pay-as-You-Go)
Last updated:2026-02-09 14:49:50
EdgeOne value-added services are billed on Value-Added Service Usage Unit (VAU).
Pricing
VAU price: 0.0143 USD
Scope of use: All EdgeOne value-added services except dedicated DDoS mitigation and edge functions (see the table below).
VAU Conversion
Personal Edition/Basic Version/Standard Version: hourly settlement, use linear price postpaid.
Enterprise Edition varies based on the selected billing mode.
Prepaid monthly subscription: hourly settlement, use linear price postpaid.
Pay-as-you-go monthly subscription: monthly settlement, using linear price postpaid.
This table describes how to convert value-added service usage to VAUs:
Category | Item | Description | Conversion rate |
Usage-based | QUIC requests | 100 VAU/million requests | |
| Smart acceleration requests | 100 VAU/million requests | |
| Bot requests | 100 VAU/million requests | |
quota-based (Only for Enterprise plan) | Precise access control rule quotas in Web Protection - Custom Rules | 100 VAUs/rule/month | |
| Rate limiting rule quotas | 100 VAUs/rule/month | |
| Site quota | Quota of sites included in a plan. | 100 VAUs/site/month |
| Quota for L4 proxy instances in Chinese mainland and Global service areas | Contact us for the quotes | |
| Quota of L4 proxy instances in Global (MLC excluded) service area | | Free of charge |
Note
1. Number of VAUs = Usage of the service x Usage per VAU.VAU fees = Total VAUs x VAU unit price.
2. After adjustment on the calculation unit of VAU, the conversion rate for QUIC is doubled from 0.5 VAU/10,000 requests to 100 VAU/million requests. To prevent this change from affecting QUIC settlement fees, the unit price of the QUIC business will have a 50% discount by default during VAU settlement, that is, the price is reduced to 0.00715 USD/VAU. For details, see Example 1 at the end of this document.
3. For enterprise edition (using prepaid monthly billing mode) subscription sites, when setting the rate limiting rule and custom rule precision matching strategy quota, the subscription duration will automatically align with the remaining duration of the package, and the quota lifecycle will remain consistent with the package lifecycle. See detailed explanation in example 3 and example code 4.
4. Site quota, rate limiting rule quotas, and Precise access control rule quotas in Web Protection additional purchase do not support self-service deletion. If you need to delete quota, contact Tencent Cloud technical support.
Example 1: During a billing cycle, 10M QUIC requests and 20M smart acceleration requests are consumed.
For usage-based services, VAUs are calculated depending on the actual usage.
10M QUIC requests= 100 VAU/million requests × 10 = 1000 VAUs = 1000 x 0.0143 * 50%（discount）= 7.15 USD.
20M smart acceleration requests = ****100 VAU/million requests x 20 = 2000 VAUs = 2000 × 0.0143 = 28.6 USD.
So these numbers add up to 35.75 USD.
Example 2: An Enterprise user(Pay-as-you-go monthly subscription) purchased one more rate limiting rule and one site at different times within the current month.
For quota-based services, VAUs are calculated depending on the proportion of usage days in the current calendar month.
Assume that the quota for one rate limiting rule is purchased at 00:00 on April 1. By the point of 23:59 on April 30, the quota is still valid. The rule quota is converted to 100 VAUs and costs 1.43 USD (100 VAUs × 0.0143 USD). Note that to delete a quota, you need to Contact us.
Assume that the quota of one site is purchased at 00:00 on April 11. By the point of 23:59 on April 30, the quota is still valid. The billable period of this quota usage is 20 days (30 days – 10 days), that is, 20/30 in the proportion of usage days in the calendar month. The site quota is converted to 66.7 VAUs (1 quota × (20/30) × 100 VAUs), which is rounded down to 66 VAUs, resulting in a cost of 0.9438 USD (66 VAUs × 0.0143 USD).
Example 3: The enterprise edition (prepaid monthly subscription) purchases additional 1 rate limiting rule quota and 1 site quota.
Assuming a user purchases the enterprise edition (prepaid monthly subscription) at 00:00 on December 1 with a purchase period of 3 months, they can immediately purchase additional 1 rate limiting rule quota and 1 site quota after package activation.
1 rate limiting rule is settled as 100 VAU, with a monthly fee of 0.0143 * 100 * 1 = 1.43 USD. The remaining duration of the package is 3 months, so the subscription fee is: 1.43 * 3 = 4.29 USD;
1 site quota is settled as 100 VAU, with a monthly fee of 0.0143 * 100 * 1 = 1.43 USD. The remaining duration of the package is 3 months, so the subscription fee is: 1.43 * 3 = 4.29 USD;
15 days after package activation, 1 rate limiting rule quota and 1 site quota were purchased additional. At this point, the remaining duration of the package is only 2.5 months.
1 rate limiting rule is settled as 100 VAU, with a monthly cost of 0.0143 * 100 * 1 = 1.43 USD. The remaining duration of the package is 2.5 months, so the subscription fee is: 1.43 * 2.5 = 3.575 USD;
1 site quota is settled as 100 VAU, with a monthly fee of 0.0143 * 100 * 1 = 1.43 USD. The remaining duration of the package is 2.5 months, hence the subscription fee is: 1.43 * 2.5 = 3.575 USD;
Example 4: The enterprise edition (with prepaid monthly subscription billing mode) purchases additional 1 rate limiting rule quota and 1 site quota, and the package goes to renew.
Assuming a user purchases the enterprise edition (using prepaid monthly billing mode) with a monthly package cost of X USD, and subscribes to 1 rate limiting rule quota (1.43 USD/month) and 1 site quota (1.43 USD/month) for the package. See example 3 for the calculation process.
At this point, if the user initiates manual renewal or automatic renewal for the enterprise edition (prepayment), the quota will automatically follow the package to renew.
Renewal fee = package cost + rate limiting rule quota fee + site quota fee = X + 1.43 + 1.43 (USD)
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