Billing Overview
Last updated: 2024-01-31 16:39:39
Billing Modes
CI is pay-as-you-go (postpaid).
Fees are charged by the actual usage. Amounts are deducted and the bill for the previous month is generated on the first day of each month. When you start using CI, you will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis by default, so you do not need to purchase it.
Pricing
As the data storage service of CI is based on Cloud Object Storage (COS), the storage fees will be listed on COS bills. For more information, see COS Pricing Overview.
Amount Freezing Mechanism
After the bill for the current month is settled, 120% of its amount will be frozen for the next month. During settlement the next month, this frozen amount will be unfrozen first for deduction.
Billable Items
CI billable items include image processing fees, media processing fees, file processing fees, document processing fees, smart audio fees, and traffic fees.
Billing Cycle
The billing cycles and sequence of CI billable items are as detailed below:
Billable Item | Billing Cycle | Description | Billing Sequence | |
Image processing | Basic image processing fees | Monthly | Amounts are deducted and the bill for the previous month is generated on the first day of each month. | Free tier > pay-as-you-go, or only pay-as-you-go in case of no free tier. |
| Advanced image compression fees | | | |
| Guetzli image compression fees | | | |
| Blind watermark fees | | | |
| Abnormal image detection fees | | | |
| Smart image compression fees | | | |
Media processing | Audio/Video transcoding fees | Monthly | | |
| Top Speed Codec transcoding fees | | | |
| Video montage fees | | | |
| Video enhancement fees | | | |
| Super resolution fees | | | |
| SDR-to-HDR fees | | | |
| Video tagging fees | | | |
| Video metadata acquisition fees | | | |
| Digital watermark fees | | | |
| Video frame capturing fees | | | |
| Intelligent thumbnail fees | | | |
| Video quality scoring fees | | | |
| Video frame interpolation fees | | | |
| Video splitting fees | | | |
Document processing | Document-to-image conversion fees | Monthly | | |
| Document-to-HTML conversion fees | | | |
| Privacy protection fees | | | |
Smart audio | Voice/Sound separation fees | Monthly | | |
| Text-to-speech fees | | | |
| Audio noise reduction fees | | | |
| Speech recognition fees | | | |
File processing | File hash calculation fees | Monthly | | |
| File decompression fees | | | |
| Multi-file zipping fees | | | |
Traffic | CDN origin-pull traffic fees | Monthly | | |
| Public network outbound traffic fees | | | |
Related documentation
1. Currently, CI offers free tiers for various features such as image processing, media processing, and document processing. For more information, see Free Tier. For feature or discount details, contact us.
2. For more information on the COS overdue policy (data retention and destruction), see COS Payment Overdue.
3. You can estimate the usage of billable items based on your own business needs and then use the CI price calculator to calculate fees and export the cost estimate.
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