Billing Overview
Last updated:2026-03-11 10:17:52
This document describes the billing and pricing of connection, dedicated tunnel and direct connect gateway.
Note:
The bandwidth units are 1000-based, which means 1 Tbps is equal to 1,000 Gbps and 1 Gbps is equal to 1,000 Mbps.
The traffic units are 1024-based, which means 1 TB is equal to 1,024 GB and 1 GB is equal to 1,024 MB.
Billing Details
Tencent Cloud Direct Connect is billed on the basis of connection, dedicated tunnel, and direct connect gateway.The specific components are shown in the following figure:
Connections
A connection is the connection between your local IDC and the Tencent Cloud Direct Connect access point. You need to pay both Tencent Cloud billable items and non-Tencent Cloud billable items.
Tencent Cloud billable items
You need to pay the monthly resource occupation fee for a dedicated access port.
You do not need to pay the resource occupation fee for a shared access port by partners.
Non-Tencent Cloud billable items
Leased-line fee: you should pay your ISP for the leased line between your local IDC and the Tencent Cloud Direct Connect access point.
In-house wiring (IHW) rental fee: Direct Connect access points are generally deployed in neutral IDCs. Therefore, fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) or IHW rental fee may incur. For more information, consult your property operator or wiring provider.
Dedicated tunnels
A dedicated tunnel is the Tencent Cloud private network connection between the Direct Connect access point and the Tencent Cloud direct connect gateway.
For a shared dedicated tunnel created using a partner's connection, the resource occupation fee for shared dedicated tunnel will be charged based on the specifications. For more information, see Shared dedicated tunnel fee.
Note:
Tencent Cloud has discontinued the Direct Connect - Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel Service from December 31, 2022. For more information, see Migration of Direct Connect Cross-Region Tunnel Service to CCN. If you need cross-region tunnels, use Cloud Connect Network (CCN).
If you are an existing user of the Direct Connect - Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel Service, migrate your cross-region dedicated tunnels to CCN as instructed in Migrating Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel to CCN.
Direct connect gateways
A direct connect gateway is your gateway object in Tencent Cloud, and the traffic fee will be billed.
Inbound traffic fee: traffic from your local IDC to a Tencent Cloud IDC over Direct Connect is free of charge.
Outbound traffic fee: traffic from a Tencent Cloud IDC to your local IDC over Direct Connect is charged based on actual traffic usage. For detailed pricing, see Direct connect gateway traffic fee.
Pricing Description
Direct Connect is billed as follows.
Physical port occupancy fee
Resource occupation fee for dedicated access port: monthly pay-as-you-go. The fee incurred in the current month will be charged from your account between 8 and 10 AM on the first day of the next month.
Billing time: the billing starts on the day when the connection goes to Running status, and stops when the connection is deleted on the Direct Connect console. The connection used less than one month will be billed on the basis of valid days.
Billing formula: Total fee = (Number of valid days in the month/Number of calendar days in the month) × Monthly price for the port.
Note:
400G ports are currently only supported in the Beijing region. For other regions, you can Submit a ticket feedback.
Billable Item | Specification | Price (USD/month) |
Resource occupation fee (in the Chinese mainland) | 1 GbE or below | 90 |
| 10 GbE | 746 |
| 100 GbE | 5224 |
| 400GbE | 19750 |
Resource occupation fee (outside the Chinese mainland) | 1 GbE or below | 205 |
| 10 GbE | 1539 |
| 100 GbE | 11940 |
| 400GbE | 45143 |
Direct connect gateway traffic fee
Billing description: the direct connect gateway will be charged starting from December 1, 2020. The inbound traffic is free of charge, while the outbound traffic billing will be accurate to MB at the price as shown below. The outbound traffic less than 1 MB will not be charged.
Billing object: the total outbound traffic of all direct connect gateways under a Tencent Cloud account.
Billing mode: monthly pay-as-you-go. The fee incurred in the current month will be charged from your account between 8 and 10 AM on the first day of the next month.
Billing formula: Total fee = Total outbound traffic of all direct connect gateways × Unit price.
Note:
A new region-based pricing plan will be introduced on June 1, 2023 for the outbound traffic of direct connect gateways. For more information, see Discontinuing the Free Tier of Outbound Traffic and Introducing a New Pricing Plan.
Billable Item | Total Outbound Traffic | Price (USD/GB) | ||
| | | Starting from June 1, 2023 | Before June 1, 2023 |
Inbound traffic | - | | Free of charge | Free of charge |
Outbound traffic | Chinese mainland | | 0.014 | 0.014 |
| Asia | Taiwan (China), Hong Kong (China), Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok | 0.036 | |
| | Jakarta | 0.071 | |
| Europe and America | Frankfurt, Virginia, Silicon Valley | 0.017 | |
| | Brazil | 0.036 | |
| Middle East | Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) | 0.083 | - |
Shared dedicated tunnel fee
Resource occupation fee for shared dedicated tunnel: The fee is billed in pay-as-you-go mode monthly. The fee incurred in the current month will be deducted from your account between 8 and 10 AM on the first day of the next month.
Billing time: The billing starts on the day when the shared dedicated tunnel enters the Connected state, and stops when the tunnel is deleted in the Direct Connect console. The tunnel used less than one month will be billed on the basis of valid days.
Billing formula: Total fee = (Number of valid days in the month/Number of calendar days in the month) × Monthly price for the shared dedicated tunnel.
Tunnel specification | Occupation fee in the Chinese mainland (USD/month) | Occupation fee outside the Chinese mainland (USD/month) |
50 Mbps | 23 | 23 |
100 Mbps | 31 | 46 |
200 Mbps | 38 | 57 |
300 Mbps | 46 | 92 |
400 Mbps | 54 | 120 |
500 Mbps | 62 | 146 |
1 Gbps | 92 | 231 |
2 Gbps | 169 | 523 |
5 Gbps | 400 | 1,169 |
8 Gbps | 631 | 1,508 |
10 Gbps | 769 | 1,692 |
40 Gbps | 2,769 | 5,846 |
100 Gbps | 5,385 | 12,308 |
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