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    Billing Overview

    Last updated: 2024-03-29 11:23:59
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      Note:
      You can refer to Billing Examples to estimate your cost of using VOD services.

      Billable Items

      VOD billable items include Media Management, Media Processing, Acceleration Service, Data Retrieval, Media AI, Copyright Protection and other value-added services.
      
      
      

      Billing Modes

      VOD supports daily and monthly billing cycles. You can pay as you go or buy prepaid packages. Upon service activation, the default billing mode will be daily pay-as-you-go.

      Billing time

      Daily billing cycle: Fees incurred each day are billed and deducted between 12:00 and 18:00 (UTC+8:00) the following day.
      Monthly billing cycle: Fees incurred each month are billed and deducted between the 1st and 3rd day of the following month.
      Difference: With daily billing, fees are calculated each day and billed the following day. With monthly billing, fees are calculated each day and billed at the beginning of the following month.
      Note:
      The monthly billing cycle supports bill-by-bandwidth. If you want to switch to the monthly billing cycle, please contact sales.

      Billing modes

      Pay-as-you-go: You only pay for your actual usage of different services. Fees are deducted after use.
      Packages: You buy packages in advanced. When usage occurs, the packages will be used for deduction first.
      Note:
      In the daily billing mode, the system will deduct your usage from your packages first. The additional usage will be billed at pay-as-you-go rates. For more information about packages, see Prepaid Packages.
      In the monthly billing mode, the system will deduct your usage from valid packages first. The additional usage will be billed at pay-as-you-go rates. For more information about packages, see Prepaid Packages.
      About valid packages in the monthly billing mode: In the monthly billing mode, a package can only deduct usage that occurs when the package is still valid. For example, suppose a package expires on January 20, 2023. It can deduct usage that occurs between January 1 and January 20. The additional usage will be billed at pay-as-you-go rates. The billing details will be included in your January 2023 bill.

      Details

      Item
      Description
      Payment Mode
      Storage
      Fees are calculated based on the storage time, region, type, and peak storage used.
      Fees for regions inside and outside the Chinese mainland are calculated separately.
      The minimum storage time for the storage class ARCHIVE is 90 days. Even if a file is stored for less than 90 days, storage fees for 90 days will be charged.
      The minimum storage time for the storage class DEEP ARCHIVE is 180 days. Even if a file is stored for less than 180 days, storage fees for 180 days will be charged.
      Daily/Monthly pay-as-you-go
      Prepaid packages
      Media processing
      General transcoding
      Fees are calculated based on the transcoding resolution and duration.
      Transcoding durations are rounded to the next minute.
      Daily/Monthly pay-as-you-go
      Prepaid packages
      Top Speed Codec transcoding
      Adaptive bitrate streaming
      Video editing
      Watermark removing
      Remaster
      Acceleration
      Client upload acceleration
      Fees are calculated based on the traffic consumed.
      Playback acceleration
      Fees are calculated based on the traffic consumed for playback acceleration and the acceleration region.
      Daily/Monthly pay-as-you-go
      Prepaid packages
      Data retrieval
      Fees are calculated based on the retrieval mode and the amount of data retrieved.
      DEEP_ARCHIVE storage does not support expedited retrieval.
      Media AI
      Content moderation
      Fees are calculated based on the length of the moderated file. If moderation fails, no fees will be incurred.
      Daily/Monthly pay-as-you-go
      Prepaid packages
      Copyright protection
      DRM playback licenses
      Fees are based on the number of license requests to play DRM-encrypted videos.
      Value-added services
      Application Management
      In application management, the created applications are charged according to the number of applications, free of charge within 20, and the part exceeding 20 is calculated according to the peak number of applications per day (including the applications destroyed on the day).
      Live Clipping
      Charges are based on the length of the edited video output.
      If the billing time is less than one minute, it will be calculated as one minute.
      Client Upload Acceleration
      When uploading files, the client upload acceleration function is used and the upload acceleration traffic generated is billed.
      If the billing time is less than one minute, it will be calculated as one minute.
      VOD resources used by the UGSV SDK
      The fees incurred may include storage fees, media processing fees, acceleration fees, and media AI fees.

      See Also

      For the pricing of VOD services, see Pay-As-You-Go.
      For the pricing of VOD packages, see Prepaid Packages.
      For the pricing of VOD value-added services, see Value-Added Services.
      For examples of how VOD services are billed, see Billing Examples.
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