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Content Recognition Fees

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Last updated: 2025-12-18 15:14:44
Based on the Cloud Infinite (CI), the Cloud Object Storage (COS) offers the content recognition capability, integrating a plethora of powerful features of Tencent Cloud AI. It provides value-added services like QR code recognition, image tagging, image quality assessment, and face recognition for data in Cloud Object Storage (COS). It has been widely used in many scenarios, including e-commerce websites, social apps, photo apps, video websites, etc., which facilitates effective content management for users.
The content recognition fees include fees of QR Code Recognition, Image tagging, Assess Quality and Face Recognition and other services. The details are as follows:
Billing Item
Description
Billing Cycle
Applicable Billing Mode
QR Code Recognition
Fees incurred by QR code recognition performed on images. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
Billed Monthly
Pay-as-you-go
Image Tagging
Fees incurred by using the image tagging service (displayed as content recognition fees in the bill). Such fees are charged by the number of identification times.
Assess Quality
Fees incurred as a result of performing a quality assessment on images, Such fees are charged by tthe number of evaluation times.
Face Recognition
Fees incurred for the recognition of faces depicted in the images, including face detection, special effects (beauty enhancement, gender switch, age transformation, portrait segmentation, etc.). Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
Liveness Recognition
Fees incurred for conducting Electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) on images. Such fees are charged by number of successful API calls.
Recognize Car
Fees incurred for the execution of VEHICLEOCR on images, which includes: license plate detection and vehicle detection. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
ID Card OCR
Fees incurred by executing OCR on images, encompassing General Text Recognition (General Basic OCR、General Accurate OCR、General Efficient OCR、Handwriting OCR). Such fees are charged by the number of identification times.
Image Search
Fees incurred by searching for images, including image indexing and image search. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
Image Repair
Fees incurred by image repair. Such fees are charged by the number of usages.
AI General Matting
Fees incurred by image matting performed on images. Such fees are charged by the number of usage times.
Logo Recognition
Fees incurred by recognizing logos in the images. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition times.
Speech Analysis
Fees incurred by analyzing textual content and offering functions such as word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging. Such fees are charged by the number of usage times.
Body Recognition
Fees incurred by recognizing human bodies in the images. Such fees are charged by the number of recognition.
Image Super Resolution
Fees incurred by reconstructing a high-resolution image from a low-resolution one. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.

Segment Video Body
Fees incurred by analyzing the input video, identifying the portrait area segmentation and generating output videos. Such fees are charged by the duration of the output video.
Image Enhance
Fees incurred by overall image enhancements. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
Colorize Image
Fees incurred by coloring black and white images with one click. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
Change Image Size
Fees incurred by using intelligent analysis to identify the main content in an image and cropping it to fit various size requirements. Such fees are charged by the number of image processing times.
Note:
The billing components of content recognition adopts a progressive tiered pricing structure, with prices varying with different usage volumes.
For instance: If User A has made 30,000 identity card recognition requests this month, the actual fee would be: 10,000 * 0.0237 + (30,000 - 10,000) * 0.0158 = 589 USD.

Pricing

Image tagging

Number of Monthly Reviewed Images(N)
Price
N ≤ 3 million
0.22 USD/1,000 images
3 million < N ≤ 15 million
0.2 USD/1,000 images
15 million < N ≤ 30 million
0.18 USD/1,000 images
N > 30 million
0.16 USD/1,000 images
Note:
Image tagging adopts a scoring mechanism, with a score of between 0 and 100 for each image.

Assess Quality

Monthly assessment volume
Price
0 < assessment volume ≤ 1 million
0.45 USD/1,000 times
1 million < assessment volume ≤ 3 million
0.37 USD/1,000 times
3 million < assessment volume ≤ 15 million
0.3 USD/1,000 times
Assessment volume > 15 million
0.22 USD/1,000 times

Face Recognition

Detect Face

Monthly Detection Volume
Price
0 < detection volume ≤ 3 million
0.5 USD/1,000 times
3 million < detection volume ≤ 15 million
0.4 USD/1,000 times
Detection volume > 15 million
0.3 USD/1,000 times

Face Effects

Monthly Call Volume
Price
0 < calls ≤ 10,000
1.58 USD/1,000 times
10,000 < calls ≤ 100,000
1.42 USD/1,000 times
100,000 < calls ≤ 1 million
1.27 USD/1,000 times
Calls > 1 million
1.11 USD/1,000 times

Liveness Recognition

Monthly Call Volume
Price
0 < calls ≤ 1000
0.1582 USD/call
1000 < calls ≤ 10,000
0.1345 USD/call
10,000 < calls ≤ 100,000
0.1187 USD/call
Calls > 100,000
0.1076 USD/call

Recognize Car

Monthly Recognition Volume
Price
0 < recognition volume ≤ 1 million
0.43 USD/1,000 times
1 million < recognition volume ≤ 3 million
0.36 USD/1,000 times
3 million < recognition volume ≤ 15 million
0.29 USD/1,000 times
Recognition volume > 15 million
0.21 USD/1,000 times

ID Card OCR

General Text Recognition

Recognition Type
0 < Calls ≤ 10,000
10,000 < Calls ≤ 100,000
Above 100,000
General basic OCR
0.021 USD/call
0.014 USD/call
0.0085 USD/call
General accurate OCR
0.071 USD/call
0.05 USD/call
0.028 USD/call
General efficient OCR
0.012 USD/call
0.007 USD/call
0.0045 USD/call
Handwriting OCR
0.0224 USD/call
0.0149 USD/call
0.009 USD/call
Note:
The price varies with different recognition types.

Card Certificate Recognition (General Billable Item)

Monthly Recognition Volume
Price
0 < recognition volume ≤ 10,000
0.0237 USD/call
10,000 < recognition volume ≤ 100,000
0.0158 USD/call
Recognition volume > 100,000
0.009 USD/call
Note:
Both ID card recognition and driving license recognition utilize the card recognition billable item.

Image Search

Image Indexing

Monthly Detection Volume
Price
0 < detection volume ≤ 999,999
0.00194 USD/image
999,999 < detection volume ≤ 2,999,999
0.00149 USD/image
2,999,999 < detection volume ≤ 14,999,999
0.00119 USD/image
Detection volume > 14,999,999
0.00112 USD/image

Image Search

Monthly Detection Volume
Price
0 < detection volume ≤ 999,999
0.00224 USD/call
999,999 < detection volume ≤ 2,999,999
0.00201 USD/call
2,999,999 < detection volume ≤ 14,999,999
0.00179 USD/call
Detection volume > 14,999,999
0.00149 USD/call

Other

Billable Item
Price
QR Code Recognition
0.1493 USD/1,000 times
Image Repair
0.0052 USD/call
AI General Matting
0.003 USD/call
Logo Recognition
0.4478 USD/1,000 times
Speech Analysis
0.0003 USD/call
Body Recognition
0.2985 USD/1,000 times
Pet Identification
0.1493 USD/1,000 times
Image Super Resolution
0.0009 USD/call
Segment Video Body
0.1791 USD/min
Colorize Image
0.8955 USD/1,000 times
Image Enhance
1.194 USD/1,000 times
Change Image Size
0.2985 USD/1,000 times

Billing Examples

Requirements

Suppose that user A uploads a batch of images into a bucket, utilizes the content recognition service of CI, and activates the CDN acceleration service. According to usage statistics, the content recognition service has performed 30,000 times of QR code recognition, 10,000 times of face effects, and 10,000 times of ID card recognition, generating 100 GB of CDN origin-pull traffic this month.

Monthly Fees Calculation

Billable Item
Free Usage
Unit Price
Billable Usage
Fees (Unit Price * Billable Usage)
QR Code Recognition Fees
No
0.1493 USD/1,000 times
30,000 times
4.479 USD
Face Effect Fees
No
1.58 USD/1,000 times
10,000 times
15.8 USD
ID Card Recognition Fees
No
0.0237 USD/call
10,000 times
237 USD
CDN Origin-Pull Fees
10 GB
0.02 USD/GB
100GB
2 USD
Monthly Fees
-
-
-
259.279 USD
Note:
The billing sequence for CI is: free usage > pay-as-you-go.
Storage fees are charged by COS billing.
After understanding the structure of content recognition fees and instructions regarding billable items, you can assess the amount of resources according to your business needs, then use the CI price calculator for calculation, and finally export the budget list.


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