To view your VOD bills and payment details, go to Tencent Cloud Billing Center > Bills > View bills.
Bill Query
The Bill Details page includes the Bill Overview, Bill Summary, Bill by lnstance and Bill Details:
Bill Overview: A multi-dimensional overview of bill amounts, showing spending proportions by dimension.
Bill Summary: The total bill amount categorized by product, project, billing mode, region, and tag.
Bill by lnstance: The total bill amount summarized by resource ID.
Bill Details: Displays one record per bill without performing aggregation.
Bill by Instance
Click All products and then select Product Name > Video on Demand to view the VOD bills.
Bill fields
Field
Description
Instance ID/Name
VOD's different sub-products have different resource contents due to different resource forms. For details, see Instance ID Description.
Billing Mode
Pay-As-You-Go: In this mode, billing is settled daily based on actual usage.
Monthly Subscription: In this mode, billing is settled monthly for all usage within the billing cycle.
Annual and Monthly Subscription: VOD resource package plan.
Configuration Description
VOD sub-features and their usage in this month. VOD sub-features include:
VOD storage
VOD MPS duration
VOD transcoding
VOD traffic
VOD bandwidth
VOD inappropriate content recognition
Original Cost
Total cost of each sub-feature used on a daily/monthly basis.
Discount Rate
The user’s discount rate this month:
Users on the daily billing cycle do not receive discounts. Their discount rate is 0.
Users on the monthly billing cycle should contact sales to inquire about discounts.
Total Cost
Total cost = Original cost × (1 - Discount rate)
Other fields are assigned by Tencent Cloud. For details, see Bills.
Note:
If the component type is VOD transcoding, the transcoding template type is indicated in the instance ID. For example:
XXX_h265_sd_640_480 indicates a general transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
XXX_h265_eshd_sd_640_480 indicates a TSC transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
Bill Details
Bill fields
Field
Description
Instance ID/Name
VOD's different sub-products have different resource contents due to different resource forms. For details, see Instance ID Description.
Component Type
VOD sub-feature used in this month
Component Name
Sub-item under this component type
Component List Price
The component’s published unit price without discounts
Component’s Usage
The usage of this component
Component Price Unit
The price unit of this component is displayed as "currency/measurement unit/billing cycle".
Users on daily settlement will see "USD/XX(measurement unit)/day".
Users on monthly settlement will see "USD/XX(measurement unit)/month".
Discount Rate
The user’s discount rate this month:
Users on the daily billing cycle do not receive discounts. Their discount rate is 0.
Users on the monthly billing cycle will receive discounts and should contact sales for more information.
Usage Duration
Total duration used for each component this month.
Total Cost
Total cost = Component’s original cost x (1 - Discount rate).
Component’s original cost = Component’s published unit price x Component’s price unit x Component’s usage x Usage duration
Other fields are assigned by Tencent Cloud. For details, see Bills.
Note:
If the component type is VOD transcoding, the transcoding template type is indicated in the instance ID. For example:
XXX_h265_sd_640_480 indicates a general transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
XXX_h265_eshd_sd_640_480 indicates a TSC transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
For example, suppose a user uses the template with codec set to H.264 and resolution set to HD (1280 × 720) and below, and the component’s published unit price is 0.0061 USD/min.
Component’s original cost = 0.00610000 × USD/Transcoding type 2/min × 2.00000000 min × 5.00000000 min = 0.03050000 (USD)
Discount rate = 0
Total cost = 0.0305 USD × 1 = 0.0305 (USD)
Transcoding type
If the component price unit is for the following transcoding types, you may refer to the corresponding unit, codec, and resolution.
Standard Transcoding:
Transcoding type
Unit
Codec
Resolution
1 Transcoding Type
Every 1 basic unit
H.264
Standard Definition SD (short side ≤ 480 px)
2 Transcoding Types
Every 2 basic units
H.264
HD (short side ≤ 720 px)
3 Transcoding Types
Every 3 basic units
H.264
Full HD FHD (Short side ≤ 1080px)
4 Transcoding Types
Every 4 basic units
H.264
2K (short side ≤ 1440 px)
5 Transcoding Types
Every 5 basic units
H.264
4K (short side ≤ 2160 px)
6 Transcoding Types
Every 6 basic units
H.265
Standard Definition SD (short side ≤ 480 px)
7 Transcoding Types
Every 7 basic units
H.265
HD (short side ≤ 720 px)
8 Transcoding Types
Every 8 basic units
H.265
Full HD FHD (Short side ≤ 1080px)
9 Transcoding Types
Every 9 basic units
H.265
2K (short side ≤ 1440 px)
10 Transcoding Types
Every 10 basic units
H.265
4K (short side ≤ 2160 px)
21 Transcoding Types
Every 21 basic units
Audio transcoding
-
22 Transcoding Types
Every 22 basic units
Remux Transcoding
-
TSC :
Transcoding type
Unit
Codec
Resolution
11 Transcoding Types
Every 11 basic units
H.264
Standard Definition SD (short side ≤ 480 px)
12 Transcoding Types
Every 12 basic units
H.264
HD (short side ≤ 720 px)
13 Transcoding Types
Every 13 basic units
H.264
Full HD FHD (Short side ≤ 1080px)
14 Transcoding Types
Every 14 basic units
H.264
2K (short side ≤ 1440 px)
15 Transcoding Types
Every 15 basic units
H.264
4K (short side ≤ 2160 px)
16 Transcoding Types
Every 16 basic units
H.265
Standard Definition SD (short side ≤ 480 px)
17 Transcoding Types
Every 17 basic units
H.265
HD (short side ≤ 720 px)
18 Transcoding Types
Every 18 basic units
H.265
Full HD FHD (Short side ≤ 1080px)
19 Transcoding Types
Every 19 basic units
H.265
2K (short side ≤ 1440 px)
20 Transcoding Types
Every 20 basic units
H.265
4K (short side ≤ 2160 px)
23 Transcoding Types
Every 23 basic units
Audio transcoding
-
Instance ID Description
Tag-based Allocation Before
The structure of the Instance ID is: Account AppID_Resource Identifier_Resource Attribute_Billing Cycle
Instance ID Example: 132×××_standard_monthly_ml
Note:
The example indicates that a user with a monthly settlement account of 132××× used the "VOD Standard Storage - Chinese mainland" resource, and incurred usage and costs.
Tag-based Allocation After
The structure of the Instance ID is: VOD Application ID.
The structure of the Instance Name is: Instance Identifier_Instance Attribute_Billing Mode.
Detailed Instance Description
Instance Name
Instance Identifier
Instance Attribute
Standard Storage
Standard
Instances are region-specific. For region descriptions, please view.
At the end of the resource ID, fields such as ml, oml, etc., often appear. These mainly refer to the regional attributes of instance consumption. The mapping of fields for global regions is as follows:
Attribute - Chinese Name
Attribute - English Name
Attribute - Field Identifier
Chinese mainland
Mainland
ml
Outside Mainland China
Outsidemainland
oml
North America
North America
na
Europe
Europe
eu
Asia Pacific 1
Asia Pacific Zone 1
ap1
Asia Pacific 2
Asia Pacific Zone 2
ap2
Asia Pacific 3
Asia Pacific Zone 3
ap3
Middle East
Middle East
me
Africa
Africa
aa
South America
South America
sa
Bill download
Note:
Detail download is only supported for bills from December 2018 onwards. For the download of historical bills from November 2018 and earlier, please visit Resource Billing 1.0.
The bill self-confirmation feature is now online. From October 2019, users can self-confirm bills. After confirming the bill, you can request a PDF invoice with an electronic seal.
Official website's latest bill download feature documentation: Billing Export Center
1. Access the Billing Center console by clicking the Billing button in the upper right corner.
2. In the Cost Center console, navigate to Bills > Bill Export Center, where you can selectively download L0, L1, L2, or L3 bills as needed.
L0 - PDF Bill Summary: Provides PDF electronic bills for financial reimbursement purposes, including cost overview and payment collection information.
L1 - Aggregated by Project and Product: Supports aggregation by product, by project, or by both product and project.
L2 - Resource ID-based Bill: Supports aggregation by resource ID.
L3 - Detailed Bill Records: Each transaction is listed as an individual record.
3. Click on Export bill package, select the billing period, and initiate the export process. Please note that generating the bill may require some time. Once completed, you may retrieve the results from the Download Records page under Billing Center.
4. Click Download.
Usage Detail Download
Currently, only some pay-as-you-go (monthly settlement) products are supported. To enable monthly settlement, please contact your account manager. You can navigate to the "Usage Details Export" page under the "Billing Center" console - "Bills" section. Select "VOD (Video on Demand)" in the product name field to obtain the usage details for VOD services.
Supported monthly settlement user detail download sub-product categories are as follows:
VOD Pay-per-use Bandwidth
VOD Pay-per-use Traffic
VOD Pay-per-use Storage
VOD MPS duration
VOD Image Auditing
The user can download usage details in the Product Report by selecting the respective category. If the category is not present, it indicates that there is no such consumption for the account.
VOD Pay-per-use Bandwidth
VOD Pay-per-use Bandwidth is divided into two tables:
sheet1: Daily data of VOD Pay-per-use Bandwidth (consistent with the number of days in the month).
sheet2: Detailed data of VOD Pay-per-use Bandwidth every five minutes daily.
Billing method: The current billing method for user's bandwidth.
Valid days: Valid natural days in monthly settlement.
Billing bandwidth value: The bandwidth value used for billing.
Note:
The general valid natural days for monthly settlement is one month. If the user switches from daily to monthly billing in the middle of the month or starts using Tencent Cloud, the usage details for that month will be recorded from the day of the switch. The next month's records will cover the entire month.
VOD Pay-per-use Traffic
Billing method: Bill-by-traffic.
Valid days: Valid natural days in monthly settlement.
Billing traffic value: Traffic billing value for billing purposes.
Records the traffic consumption for every five minutes of each natural day. The total billing traffic is the sum of traffic values at all recorded time points.
VOD Pay-per-use Storage
Date: Valid natural days in monthly settlement.
Usage: The peak storage space used for VOD on that day.
Note:
Monthly storage fee = Daily peak value × Unit price (The console shows the peak storage space of the day).
VOD MPS duration
Date: Natural day.
Resource ID: The identifier of the MPS resources used.
MPS duration: The duration after proportional deduction of various MPS capabilities used on that day.
VOD Image Auditing
Date: Natural day.
Usage: The number of Image Auditing instances used on that day.
