Starting from December 7, 2020, 21:30 (UTC +8), only bill-by-hourly-traffic is available for new CDN users. The billing mode cannot be changed after service activation.
The pricing tier of bill-by-hourly traffic is the same as it of the bill-by-daily traffic. See Billing Overview.
Note
Different products have different billing methods. If you are using Tencent Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) related business services, you can view this document. If you are using the ECDN related business services, please view the ECDN product billing overview.
Billing Overview
Area Division
Regions inside the Chinese mainland and outside the Chinese mainland have different billing plans.
In the Chinese mainland, fees are the same for all regions.
Regions outside the Chinese mainland are divided into eight billing areas according to the location of Tencent Cloud CDN node servers, namely, Asia Pacific Region 1, Asia Pacific Region 2, Asia Pacific Region 3, Middle East, Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, as shown below:
Areas
Covered Countries and Regions
Asia Pacific 1
Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand
Asia Pacific 2
Taiwan (China), Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia
Asia Pacific 3
Philippines, India, Australia, other Asia-Pacific countries and regions
Middle East
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey
Europe
United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Spain
North America
United States, Canada
South America
Brazil
Africa
South Africa
Note
CDN service fees for the Chinese mainland and regions outside the Chinese mainland are charged separately based on corresponding unit prices and usages.
Billing Mode
Billing Mode
Description
Billing Settlement
Billing Rules
Reference
Bill-by-bandwidth
Fees are charged based on daily peak bandwidth. Bandwidth values are collected once every five minutes to generate a total of 288 bandwidth statistical points per day, among which the highest is the daily peak bandwidth.
It is pay-as-you-go on the daily basis. Fees incurred between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 on a day will be billed before 18:00 on the following day.
If the actual or estimated consumption of your CDN service is more than USD 20,000, please contact Tencent Cloud sales for a more flexible and cost-saving monthly billing plan.
Billing Mode
Description
Use Case
Reference
Average daily peak bandwidth
A total of 288 CDN bandwidth statistical points are collected each day, among which the highest is the daily peak bandwidth. Then the daily peak bandwidth points of all valid days in a month are calculated to get the average peak bandwidth, i.e., the billable bandwidth value. Finally, the result value is used for billing based on the price in your service contract.
If the actual or estimated consumption of your CDN service is more than USD 20,000, please contact Tencent Cloud sales.
A total of 288 CDN bandwidth statistical points are collected each day, then the statistical points of all valid days in a month (starting from the 1st day) are sorted in descending order. Next, the top 5% points are discarded. Finally, the remaining statistical point with the greatest value is used as the bandwidth for billing based on the price in your service contract.
If the actual or estimated consumption of your CDN service is more than USD 20,000, please contact Tencent Cloud sales.
The traffic generated in a month is accumulated for billing based on the price in your service contract.
If the actual or estimated consumption of your CDN service is more than USD 20,000, please contact Tencent Cloud sales.
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Note
Each CDN node collects traffic data in real time and reports it to the billing center which aggregates the data entries into total traffic data. For bill-by-bandwidth, the bandwidth values are collected in 5-minute granularity, i.e., bandwidth value = 5-minute total traffic / 300 s. For example, if the total traffic generated in 5 minutes is 30 MB, the corresponding bandwidth will be (30 * 8) / 300 = 0.8 Mbps (1 MB = 8 Mbps).
CDN bandwidth adopts the tiered pricing as follows:
Bandwidth Tier (USD/Mbps/day)
Chinese mainland (CN)
North America (NA)
Europe (EU)
Asia Pacific Region 1 (AP1)
Asia Pacific Region 2 (AP2)
Asia Pacific Region 3 (AP3)
Middle East (ME)
Africa (AA)
South America (SA)
0 Mbps - 500 Mbps
0.0815
0.2069
0.2069
0.3647
0.3928
0.5140
0.7391
0.5612
0.5612
500 Mbps - 5 Gbps
0.0800
0.1964
0.1964
0.3216
0.3402
0.4679
0.6754
0.5137
0.5137
5 Gbps - 50 Gbps
0.0754
0.1491
0.1491
0.2703
0.2859
0.3828
0.6075
0.4702
0.4702
≥ 50 Gbps
0.0738
0.1055
0.1055
0.2436
0.2545
0.3267
0.5301
0.4281
0.4281
Note
If your CDN peak bandwidth is equal to or more than 50 Gbps, please contact us for discount information.
Calculation method
Assuming that the peak bandwidth of CDN in the Chinese mainland is X and there is no consumption outside the Chinese mainland, the calculation method for tiered pricing is as follows:
1. If X < 500 Mbps, the bill amount will be X * 0.0815.
2. If 500 Mbps ≤ X < 5,000 Mbps, the bill amount will be X * 0.0800.
3. If 5,000 Mbps ≤ X < 50,000 Mbps, the bill amount will be X * 0.0754.
4. If X ≥ 50,000 Mbps, please contact us for off-line contracting. We have more discount options for you.
CDN traffic pricing is based on a monthly cumulative tier as follows:
Traffic Tier (USD/GB)
the Chinese mainland (CN)
North America (NA)
Europe (EU)
Asia Pacific Region 1 (AP1)
Asia Pacific Region 2 (AP2)
Asia Pacific Region 3 (AP3)
Middle East (ME)
Africa (AA)
South America (SA)
0 TB - 2 TB
0.0323
0.0452
0.0452
0.0665
0.0798
0.0897
0.1080
0.1039
0.1039
2 TB - 10 TB
0.0308
0.0378
0.0378
0.0592
0.0737
0.0780
0.1000
0.0970
0.0970
10 TB - 50 TB
0.0277
0.0319
0.0319
0.0533
0.0677
0.0723
0.0940
0.0907
0.0907
50 TB - 100 TB
0.0231
0.0261
0.0261
0.0475
0.0590
0.0654
0.0863
0.0842
0.0842
≥ 100 TB
0.0169
0.0200
0.0200
0.0446
0.0503
0.0577
0.0794
0.0781
0.0781
Note
If your CDN traffic is equal to or more than 100 TB, please contact us for discount information.
Calculation method
Unlike bill-by-bandwidth, bill-by-traffic is based on a monthly cumulative tier. Here is an example describing how the bill-by-daily traffic mode works:
As shown in the figure below, assume that the traffic generated in the Chinese mainland on January 1 is 3 TB, and there is no consumption outside the Chinese mainland. The gray zone represents the actual billing tier and the green zone shows the traffic generated on January 1. As 2 TB lays in the 0 TB - 2 TB billing tier and the remaining 1 TB lays in the 2 TB - 10 TB tier, the actual fees for January 1 will be 2 * 1000 * 0.0323 + 1 * 1000 * 0.0308.
As shown in the figure below, assume that the traffic generated in the Chinese mainland on January 2 is also 3 TB, and there is no consumption outside the Chinese mainland. As bill-by-traffic is based on monthly cumulative traffic, all the 3 TB lays in the 2 TB - 10 TB tier, so the actual fees for January 2 will be 3 * 1000 * 0.0308.
As shown in the figure below, assume that the traffic generated in the Chinese mainland on January 3 is 7 TB and there is no consumption outside the Chinese mainland. Of this 7 TB, 4 TB lays in the 2 TB - 10 TB tier and the remaining 3 TB lays in the 10 TB - 50 TB tier, so the actual fees for January 3 will be 4 * 1000 * 0.0308 + 3 * 1000 * 0.0277.
In this way, you can calculate the fee for each day in a month. When it is February 1, the consumption will be accumulated from 0 for tier calculation. You can use the Price Calculator for a price estimation.
Bill-by-average daily peak bandwidth
1. Assume that a CDN billing officially starts on January 1 and the contracted price is P USD/Mbps/month.
2. A valid day refers to a day when more than 0 Kbps of bandwidth is consumed.
3. Assuming there are 14 valid days in January, we take the maximum value of the 288 statistical points for each of those 14 days as Max_1, Max_2, Max_3…and Max_14, respectively. The billable bandwidth will be Average (Max_1, Max_2, Max_3…and Max_14), so the January fee is: Average (Max_1, Max_2, Max_3…and Max_14) * P * 14 / 31.
Bill-by-monthly 95th percentile bandwidth
1. Assume that a CDN billing officially starts on January 1 and the contracted price is P USD/Mbps/month.
2. A valid day refers to a day when more than 0 Kbps of bandwidth is consumed.
3. Assuming there are 14 valid days in January, then 14 * 288 statistical points will be collected and sorted in descending order. The highest 5% statistical points are discarded, so that Max95 is the highest point in the remaining statistical points, which is the billable bandwidth. The fee for January is: Max95 * P * 14 / 31.
Choosing a Billing Mode
Note
If you noticed that the selected billing mode is not suitable for your business needs during use, you can change it. For more information, please see Changing Billing Mode.
Options:
CDN provides two billing modes: bill-by-traffic and bill-by-bandwidth. You can choose the billing mode as needed.
Calculation example:
Assuming that the traffic consumed between 00:00 and 23:59 yesterday was 200 GB, and there was no consumption in the regions outside the Chinese mainland. The peak bandwidth was 40 Mbps as the curve below:
If you select bill-by-traffic mode, you will need to pay: 200 * 0.037 = 7.4 USD
If you select bill-by-bandwidth mode, you will need to pay: 40 * 0.094 = 3.76 USD
In this specific example, bill-by-bandwidth is a more cost-effective billing model.
Value-added Services
QUIC support is a value-added service, which is billed based on the number of QUIC requests.
Tencent Cloud will notify you through multiple channels including email and SMS for overdue payments. A 24-hour grace period is provided. If you fail to top up your account within 24 hours, your CDN service will be suspended. After your account is topped up, the domain name status will be automatically restored to the one before service suspension (this process takes some time).
Note
When your acceleration service is suspended due to overdue payment, all your domain names will be disabled and all access requests will be forwarded to the origin server. You can query information but cannot modify configurations in the CDN console. Your CDN-related domain names and configurations will be retained for 12 months.
If you are a customer of a Tencent Cloud partner, the rules regarding resources when there are overdue payments are subject to the agreement between you and the partner.
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