Billing Overview
Last updated:2026-03-13 09:45:14
Billing Modes
Instance
An instance determines its host hardware configuration. Each instance type provides different computing and storage capabilities. You can select the computing capacity, storage space, and network access method based on the scale of services you need to provide.
Based on the differences in underlying hardware, Tencent Cloud currently provides a wide range of instance types. For more details, see Instance Specifications.
Billing Modes
Tencent Cloud offers five types of CVM billing modes: yearly/monthly subscription, pay-as-you-go, spot instances, reserved instances, and underwriting, meeting various user needs across different scenarios. For detailed information, see Billing Modes.
Storage
Tencent Cloud provides a wide range of data storage devices for CVM instances. Different storage types have different price and performance. They are categorized as follows:
Use case: System disk and data disk.
Architecture: Cloud disk, local disk and COS bucket.
Currently, Tencent Cloud offers a variety of cloud disk types: Premium Disk, Balanced SSD, Cloud SSD, Enhanced SSD, and Tremendous SSD.
Cloud Disk Billing Modes
Currently, two billing modes are supported: yearly/monthly subscription, and pay-as-you-go. For details, see Billing Overview.
Network Bandwidth
Tencent Cloud provides high-quality multi-line BGP networks to ensure optimal network experience.
Two billing options are available: Bill-by-traffic and bill-by-bandwidth.
Bill-by-bandwidth: Billed based on the public network transmission rate (in Mbps). It’s applicable to scenarios with the bandwidth utilization over 10%.
Bill-by-traffic: Billed based on the total size of data transmission (in GB). It’s applicable to scenarios with the bandwidth utilization lower than 10%.
Image
Image Type | Description |
Public image | It includes open-source images and commercial images. You do not need to pay for licenses when you use open-source images. You will be charged for licenses to use commercial images. |
Custom image | The billing consists of the following two parts: Snapshot fee: The image use the CBS snapshot service. As a result, retaining custom images incurs a snapshot fee. A 80 GB free tier is provided for Chinese regions For billing details of CBS service, see Billing Overview. Image fee: If the custom image is sourced from a paid image, using it incurs fees. |
Shared image | A shared image is a custom image shared from another Tencent Cloud account. If the shared image is sourced from a paid image, using it incurs fees. |
Product Pricing
You can directly use Price Calculator to view the combined prices of the products you need and estimate resource costs. It also supports adding target products to a purchase budget list and enables one-click purchase.
Note:
To ensure price accuracy, please log in to view details in the Price Calculator.
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