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Overview

• Billing mode: Daily pay-as-you-go
• Billing cycle: Daily billing cycle. Traffic fees generated each day are deducted the following day. For the actual fee deduction and bill generation time, see your billing statement.
• The default mode for new users of LVB is bill-by-traffic.
• Billing regions outside the Chinese mainland:
  • Asia Pacific 1: Hong Kong (China), Singapore, Macao (China), Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, Cambodia, Pakistan
  • Asia Pacific 2: Taiwan (China), Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea
  • Asia Pacific 3: Philippines, India, Australia
  • North America: United States, Canada, Mexico
  • Europe: Netherlands, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Spain, France
  • Middle East: United Arab Emirates, Türkiye, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq
  • Africa: South Africa
  • South America: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina
• The conversion factor for units of traffic/bandwidth is 1,000. For example, 1 TB = 1,000 GB.
• A CSS service day is 00:00-23:59 (UTC+08:00).
• At 00:00 (UTC+08:00), January 4, 2022, CSS adjusted the daily billing prices and pricing tiers of LVB’s basic services and started billing usage outside the Chinese mainland by region instead of at a unified price. For details, see Notice: CSS to Adjust Prices of Basic Services.

Note：

• By default, fees are billed based on downstream usage. However, upstream usage will also be billed if the ratio of downstream traffic to upstream traffic is smaller than 10:1 and the highest upstream bandwidth used in a day exceeds 100 Mbps.
• The billing method, tiered pricing rules, and billing regions (inside/outside the Chinese mainland) for upstream traffic are the same as those for LVB playback traffic. Upstream traffic has been billed since 00:00 (UTC+08:00), July 1, 2021.
• Billing example:

Take the Asia Pacific 1 billing region for example. Assume that the total downstream and upstream traffic used in a day are 9 GB and 1 GB respectively, and the highest upstream bandwidth used is 101 Mbps. Because the ratio of downstream traffic to upstream traffic is 9:1, which is smaller than 10:1, and the peak upstream bandwidth usage is higher than 100 Mbps, the traffic fee would be:
Upstream traffic fees + Downstream traffic fees = 0.0748 (USD/GB/Day) x (9 (GB) + 1 (GB)) = 0.748 USD.

Acceleration Outside the Chinese Mainland

Traffic/Bandwidth usage outside the Chinese mainland is the downstream traffic/bandwidth used when users connect to Tencent Cloud’s acceleration origin servers outside the Chinese mainland. You can choose to be billed by traffic or by bandwidth. By default, new users are billed by traffic.

Bill-by-traffic

Pricing

We bill traffic outside the Chinese mainland by region on a daily basis and adopt a tiered pricing approach. See below for the pricing tiers:

Traffic Tier	Price (USD/GB/Day)
	Asia Pacific 1	Asia Pacific 2	Asia Pacific 3	North America	Europe	Middle East	Africa	South America
0-2 TB	0.0748	0.1236	0.1138	0.0715	0.0715	0.1951	0.1951	0.1675
2 TB (inclusive) - 50 TB	0.0699	0.1138	0.1041	0.0634	0.0634	0.1789	0.1789	0.1593
50 TB (inclusive) - 100 TB	0.0585	0.1057	0.0911	0.0504	0.0504	0.1675	0.1675	0.1463
100 TB (inclusive) - 1 PB	0.0504	0.0911	0.0813	0.0325	0.0325	0.1545	0.1545	0.1382
≥ 1 PB	0.0455	0.0846	0.0715	0.0260	0.0260	0.1382	0.1382	0.1301

Billing details

• Billable item: Downstream traffic generated during LVB playback outside the Chinese mainland
• Billing rules: Fees are calculated by multiplying the total traffic consumed in a day in a billing region by the unit price of the corresponding tier.

Billing example

• Assume that you used the LVB service on January 4, 2022 and consumed 1 TB of downstream traffic in Hong Kong (China) and 6 TB of downstream traffic in Russia. On January 5, 2022, you would be charged:

0.0748 (USD/GB) x 1000 (GB) + 0.0634 (USD/GB) x 6000 (GB) = 445.2 USD.

• By default, fees are billed based on downstream usage. However, upstream usage will also be billed if the ratio of downstream traffic to upstream traffic is smaller than 10:1 and the peak upstream bandwidth used in a day exceeds 100 Mbps. The billing mode, list prices, and tiered pricing rules for upstream usage are the same as those for downstream usage.

Bill-by-bandwidth

Pricing

We bill bandwidth usage outside the Chinese mainland by region on a daily basis and adopt a tiered pricing approach. The fee is based on your peak bandwidth usage in a day. See below for the pricing tiers:

Bandwidth Tier	Price (USD/Mbps/Day)
	Asia Pacific 1	Asia Pacific 2	Asia Pacific 3	North America	Europe	Middle East	Africa	South America
0-500 Mbps	0.2049	0.6016	0.6228	0.1984	0.1984	0.9333	0.9333	0.8455
500 Mbps (inclusive) - 5 Gbps	0.1854	0.5415	0.6049	0.1805	0.1805	0.9203	0.9203	0.8276
5 Gbps (inclusive) - 20 Gbps	0.1707	0.4829	0.5561	0.1681	0.1681	0.9008	0.9008	0.8065
≥ 20 Gbps	0.1626	0.4228	0.5041	0.1593	0.1593	0.8911	0.8911	0.7967

Billing details

• Billable item: Downstream bandwidth used during LVB playback outside the Chinese mainland
• Billing rules: Fees are calculated by multiplying the highest bandwidth used in a day in a billing region by the unit price of the corresponding tier.

Billing example

• Assume that you used the LVB service on January 4, 2022 for playback in Macao (China) and your bandwidth usage reached 600 Mbps at the highest. On January 5, 2022, you would be charged:

0.1854 (USD/Mbps) x 600 (Mbps) = 111.24 USD.

• By default, fees are billed based on downstream usage. However, upstream usage will also be billed if the ratio of downstream traffic to upstream traffic is smaller than 10:1 and the peak upstream bandwidth used in a day exceeds 100 Mbps. The billing mode, list prices, and tiered pricing rules for upstream usage are the same as those for downstream usage.

Traffic/Bandwidth Usage in the Chinese Mainland

LVB is a basic service of CSS and is billed based on the downstream traffic/bandwidth consumed during live streaming. LVB provides two daily pay-as-you-go billing modes: bill-by-traffic and bill-by-bandwidth. You can choose whichever suits your needs.

Bill-by-traffic

Pricing

We bill LVB traffic on a daily basis and adopt a tiered pricing approach. See below for the pricing tiers:

Traffic Tier	Price (USD/GB/Day)
0-2 TB	0.0423
2 TB (inclusive) - 10 TB	0.0407
10 TB (inclusive) - 50 TB	0.0390
50 TB (inclusive) - 100 TB	0.0358
100 TB (inclusive) - 1 PB	0.0309
≥ 1 PB	0.0260

Billing details

• Billable item: Downstream traffic consumed during LVB playback in the Chinese mainland
• Billing rules: Fees are calculated by multiplying the total traffic consumed in a day by the unit price of the corresponding tier.
• Calculation formula:
  • Consumed traffic = Bitrate/8 x Total playback duration.

Note：

Total playback duration = Daily number of online viewers x Average playback duration per viewer. That is to say, the total playback duration is the same if 1 viewer watches for 60 minutes and 60 viewers watch for 1 minute each.

• Traffic fees = Consumed traffic x Unit price of the corresponding tier

Billing example

• Assume that a live streaming session lasted for 2 hours and the bitrate was 1 Mbps (This is the sum of the audio bitrate and video bitrate. If you transcode the stream to a specific video bitrate, the sum of this video bitrate and the audio bitrate will be used for billing). If 100 viewers watched the live stream for 1 hour each and 50 viewers watched it for 2 hours each, the consumed traffic would be:
  1 (Mbps)/8 x 7,200 (s) x 50 (Viewers) + 1 (Mbps)/8 x 3,600 (s) x 100 (Viewers) = 90,000 (MB) = 90 GB.
• Assume that you used the LVB service on January 4, 2022 and consumed 90 GB of downstream traffic. On January 5, 2022, you would be charged:
  0.0423 (USD/GB) x 90 (GB) = 3.807 USD.
• By default, fees are billed based on downstream usage. However, upstream usage will also be billed if the ratio of downstream traffic to upstream traffic is smaller than 10:1 and the peak upstream bandwidth used in a day exceeds 100 Mbps. The billing mode, list prices, and tiered pricing rules for upstream usage are the same as those for downstream usage.
  

Bill-by-bandwidth

Pricing

We bill LVB bandwidth usage on a daily basis and adopt a tiered pricing approach. The fee is based on your peak bandwidth usage in a day. See below for the pricing tiers:

Bandwidth Tier	Price (USD/Mbps/Day)
0-500 Mbps	0.1057
500 Mbps (inclusive) - 5 Gbps	0.1024
5 Gbps (inclusive) - 20 Gbps	0.0992
≥ 20 Gbps	0.0943

Billing details

• Billable item: Downstream bandwidth used during LVB playback in the Chinese mainland
• Billing rules: Fees are calculated by multiplying the highest bandwidth used in a day by the unit price of the corresponding tier.

Billing example

• Assume that the bitrate of a live streaming session was 500 Kbps (This is the sum of the audio bitrate and video bitrate. If you transcode the stream to a specific video bitrate, the sum of this video bitrate and the audio bitrate will be used for billing), and there were 100 concurrent viewers at the peak, the highest bandwidth used would be:
  500 (Kbps) × 100 = 50,000 (Kbps) = 50 Mbps.
• Assume that you used the LVB service on January 4, 2022 and your bandwidth usage reached 50 Mbps at the highest. On January 5, 2022, you would be charged:
  0.1057 (USD/Mbps/Day) x 50 (Mbps) = 5.285 USD.
• By default, fees are billed based on downstream usage. However, upstream usage will also be billed if the ratio of downstream traffic to upstream traffic is smaller than 10:1 and the peak upstream bandwidth used in a day exceeds 100 Mbps. The billing mode, list prices, and tiered pricing rules for upstream usage are the same as those for downstream usage.

Note：

If you have a large-scale live streaming business and your spending on Tencent Cloud resources has exceeded or is expected to exceed 10,000 USD, then a daily billing mode may not meet your needs. Please contact the Tencent Cloud sales team or submit a ticket for other billing options.