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Billing Example

Last updated: 2023-12-23 11:57:06
    To understand the related fees incurred by LVB recording more easily, you can use the following examples to estimate the resource usage and costs of the overall plan. The examples describe the postpaid billing mode for your reference.

    Background

    User A runs an ecommerce platform. An ecommerce live streaming event was held for 10 days in November, and the live streams were recorded for playback on the purchase pages. The specific requirements are as follows:
    Estimated LVB Resource Usage
    Estimated VOD Resource Usage
    10 concurrent live streams per day
    Live streaming bitrate: 1 Mbps
    Watch duration per viewer: 2 hours
    Average number of viewers: 1,000
    All live streams were recorded in both HLS and MP4 formats
    Average daily number of viewers: 100
    Video duration: 1 hour
    Video bitrate: 500 Kbps
    Video size: 10 GB
    Video storage duration: 3 months

    Postpaid Billing

    This example mainly involves resource usages of LVB, LVB recording, and VOD as detailed below:

    LVB fees

    Billing formula: traffic = bitrate * average duration * average number of viewers.
    Example analysis:
    Daily traffic usage ≈ 10 (streams) * 1 (Mbps) / 8 * 7200 (s) ** 1000 (viewers) = 9000000 (MB) = 9000 (GB).
    10-day LVB traffic fees ≈ 9000 (GB) * 0.0406 (USD/GB) * 10 (days) = 3654 (USD).

    LVB recording fees

    Billing formula:
    Percentage of valid recording days = number of days when the recording feature is used in a calendar month / total number of days in the month.
    Recording fees = peak number of concurrent recording channels in a calendar month * percentage of valid recording days * recording channel unit price.
    Example analysis:
    Percentage of valid recording days = 10 (days) / 30 (days) = 1/3.
    Recording fees for November = 10 (channels) * 2 (formats) * 1/3 * 5.2941 (USD/channel/month) = 35.294 (USD).

    VOD fees

    Billing formula:
    Traffic = bitrate * duration * number of viewers.
    Storage = storage volume * storage unit price.
    Note:
    You can query the bitrate of the preset template in Template Settings. You can also define the bitrate of the template.
    Example analysis:
    Daily traffic usage ≈ 500/8 (Kbps) * 3600 (s) * 100 (viewers) = 22500000 (KB) = 22.5 (GB); approximate traffic fees for 30 days ≈ 22.5 GB * 0.038 USD/GB * 30 = 25.65 USD.
    Storage fees ≈ 10 (GB) * 0.0009 (USD/GB/day) * 90 (days) = 0.81 USD. Total VOD fees ≈ 25.65 + 0.81 = 26.46 USD.
    Note:
    Total fees = LVB resource fees + LVB recording fees + VOD resource fees = 3654 + 35.294 + 26.46 = 3715.754 USD.
    
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