Purchase Guide
Last updated: 2025-07-17 17:16:40
Billing Mode
Pay-as-you-go
The pay-as-you-go (postpaid) method is the default billing mode for GooseFSx. Billing is based on the specific dosage of billing items, with fees deducted from the user account on an hourly basis.
Billing Formula
Storage capacity fee = storage capacity unit price × storage capacity × storage duration.
Data flow bandwidth cost = unit price x data flow bandwidth x duration.
Billing Cycle
Billed hourly, with settlement for the previous hour's generated costs. Less than 1 hr is billed as 1 hr.
Instance Creation Time | Terminate Instance Time | Billing duration | Description |
11:28 (UTC+8) | 11:58 (UTC+8) (same date as the instance creation date) | 1 hour | 1 transaction The usage start time is 11:00 and the usage end time is 11:59. Total billing duration: 1 hour |
11:28 (UTC+8) | 12:18 (UTC+8) (same date as the instance creation date) | 2 hour | 2 transactions Transaction 1: The usage start time is 11:00 and the usage end time is 11:59. The second transaction: usage start time is 12:00, usage end time is 12:59. Billing duration: total 2 hours |
11:28 (UTC+8) | 13:08 (UTC+8) (same date as the instance creation date) | 3 hours | 3 transactions The first transaction: usage start time is 11:00, usage end time is 11:59. The second transaction: usage start time is 12:00, usage end time is 12:59. The third transaction: usage start time is 13:00, usage end time is 13:59. Total billing duration: 3 hours |
Billing Items and Pricing
GooseFSx Storage Capacity Fee
GooseFSx storage capacity refers to the storage space purchased by the user. The storage capacity fee is calculated based on storage capacity and duration.
Billing Mode | Billing Item | Unit Price | Applicable Region | Description |
Pay-as-you-go | GooseFSx C50 storage capacity fee | $0.000114/GB/hour (approx. $0.082/GB/month) | Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing | Hourly pay-as-you-go billing, hourly storage capacity fee = storage capacity unit price x storage capacity x hour (billing duration) |
| GooseFSx C60 storage capacity fee | $0.000258/GB/hour (approx. $0.186/GB/month) | Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing | |
| GooseFSx C70 storage capacity fee | $0.000386/GB/hour (approx. $0.278/GB/month) | Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing | |
GooseFSx Data Flow Bandwidth Fee
GooseFSx data flow bandwidth refers to the data flow bandwidth purchased by the user. The data flow bandwidth fee is calculated based on data flow bandwidth and duration.
Notes:
GooseFSx C50, C60, and C70 have the same data flow bandwidth cost.
Billing Mode | Billing Item | Unit Price | Applicable Region | Billing Mode | Description |
Pay-as-you-go | GooseFSx data flow bandwidth fee | $0.000429/MB/s/hour | Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing | Hourly pay-as-you-go billing. Data flow bandwidth fee per hour = unit price x data flow bandwidth x hr (billing duration). | Cost per hour, rounded to six decimal places |
Billing Example
User A in the Beijing region uses GooseFSx C60 with a capacity of 4.5TB. The billing duration is 1 hr, and the fee calculation is $0.000258/GB/hour × 4.5TB × 1024 × 1 hr = $1.189.
User A in the Beijing region uses GooseFSx data flow bandwidth of 600MB/s. The billing duration is 2 hr, and the fee calculation is $0.000429/MB/s/hour × 600MB/s × 2 hr = $0.515.
Querying Bills
You can view the payment information generated by your account's usage of the GooseFSx service in the Billing Center on the Tencent Cloud console.
GooseFSx is a subproduct of GooseFS and belongs to the product GooseStorage. GooseFSx appears in the order list of order management, with the product field registered as GooseStorage and the subproduct registered as GooseFS. Click Details to query specific information about GooseFSx.
Overdue Payment Instructions
When your account is in payment overdue status, the system will push an overdue notification. After receiving the arrears notification, you can go to the Payment Management in time to recharge to avoid affecting your business.
Service Status after Pay-As-You-Go Overdue
The service can still be used normally within 24 hours of account arrears. You need to top up promptly during this period to ensure the account balance is at least 0, so as not to affect your business operation.
Your account will be suspended 24 hours after falling into arrears. The service will stop running automatically, and data will not be readable or writable, during which time fees will be incurred.
If the account remains in arrears for 8 days, it will be deemed as active abandonment of this service. Tencent Cloud does not guarantee to retain your data, and your data will be terminated and cannot be recovered.
Overdue Duration | Service Status | Whether to Bill | Restorable to Normal State |
24 hours | normal usage | normal billing | recoverable |
1-8 days | unavailable | normal billing | recoverable |
8 days later | unavailable | free of charge | Terminate, cannot be restored |
Client Management Node Billing Rules
Enable POSIX client will automatically create 3 Cloud Virtual Machine (CVM) instances under your Tencent Cloud account. The CVM instance specification is not less than 4C16G, deployed as POSIX client management nodes. The cost of POSIX client management nodes will be charged by CVM product. In the expense center, you can query the cost by the Host ID of the POSIX client management node. Retrieve the Host ID from the GooseFSx console (log in to GooseFSx console, enter the POSIX client page of the GooseFSx instance, and view the Host ID of the 3 POSIX client management nodes).
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