Overview
COS offers a limited free tier resource pack to all new users(i.e.users activating COS for the first time) to deduct the fees incurred by data stored in the STANDARD storage class, as detailed below:
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| 50 GB STANDARD storage usage | |
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The storage usage is calculated in binary, for example, 1 TB = 1024 GB.
Free Tier
By region, The free tier is only applicable to public cloud regions, excluding financial cloud regions.
Note:
Public cloud regions include Chengdu, Chongqing, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong (China), Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Virginia, Frankfurt, and São Paulo.
Financial cloud regions include Beijing Finance, Shanghai Finance, Shenzhen Finance.
The free tier offered by COS can be used to deduct only STANDARD storage usage as detailed below. For more information, see Billable Items. Note:
The free tier cannot be used to deduct billable items other than STANDARD storage usage, such as STANDARD_IA storage usage, ARCHIVE storage usage, requests, and traffic. For more information, see Billable Items. If your service is suspended due to violations or overdue payment, you will not be eligible for the free tier even within its validity period before the service is resumed.
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Storage usage fees | STANDARD storage usage | Yes. New users are entitled to a free tier of 50 GB STANDARD storage usage for 6 months (180 days). |
| MAZ_STANDARD storage usage | No.The free tier cannot be used to deduct billable items other than STANDARD storage usage. |
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| STANDARD_IA / MAZ_STANDARD_IA storage usage |
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| INTELLIGENT TIERING / MAZ_INTELLIGENT TIERING storage usage |
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| ARCHIVE / MAZ_ARCHIVE storage usage |
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| DEEP ARCHIVE storage usage |
| Requests | Number of requests |
| Data retrievals | Amount of retrieved data |
| Traffic fees | Public network downstream traffic, CDN origin-pull traffic, cross-region replication traffic, global acceleration traffic |
| Management feature fees | Inventory feature, COS Select feature, batch operation feature, object tagging feature |
Samples
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For more information on billing after the free tier term ends, see Billing Examples. Assume that individual user A activated the COS service on March 10, 2019, uploaded 50 GB of files to the STANDARD storage class in Beijing region on March 16 generating 100 requests, and downloaded 10 GB of data over the public network on March 20 generating 100 requests. Apart from these operations, user A did not perform any other operations before the end of September.
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| User A received a monthly free tier of 50 GB STANDARD storage usage valid for 6 months (180 days). | | | |
March 17–September 5, 2019 | Starting from March 17, 2019, the STANDARD storage usage fees were settled daily. As user A had a free tier of 50 GB STANDARD storage usage valid between March 10 and September 5, 2019 (180 days), there were no charges. | | | |
| The fees for 100 STANDARD requests were settled. | 0.024 USD/10,000 requests | | 0.024 * 100 / 10000 = 0.00024 USD |
| The fees for 10 GB public network downstream traffic were settled. | | | |
| The fees for 100 STANDARD requests were settled. | | | 0.01 * 100 / 10000 = 0.0001 USD |
| User A's free tier expired on September 6, 2019, so the storage usage from September 6 to September 30, 2019 (25 days) became pay-as-you-go. Fees for 50 GB STANDARD storage usage were settled daily. | | | 0.024 / 30 * 50 * 25 = 1 USD |
Access and Query
After you sign up for a Tencent Cloud account as instructed in Signing Up and log in to the COS console to activate the COS service, the system will automatically issue the free tier to your account. Validity Period
The free tier is valid for 6 months (180 days) after the activation of your COS service.
For example, if you activated COS at 17:13:14 on March 10, 2019, and assume that 6 months is equal to 180 days, then the free tier would cover your STANDARD storage usage between March 10 and September 5, 2019.
Billing Sequence
During the free tier term, you may still be charged for other fees, such as request fees and traffic fees. Therefore, the billing sequence varies by scenario.
By default, COS bills are settled in a pay-as-you-go manner.
If you are eligible for the free tier of STANDARD storage usage, then your bills will be settled in the order of free tier > pay-as-you-go billing, that is, you will be charged in a pay-as-you-go manner for the usage in excess of the free tier.
Troubleshooting
If you have any questions about the free tier or your bills, see Billing or contact us.