Viewing Bills

To view your VOD bills and payment details, go to Tencent Cloud Billing Center  > Bills > Bill Details.
Bill Details
The Bill Details page includes the Bill by Instance and Bill Details tabs:
Bill by Instance: Displays aggregated bills by instance.
Bill Details: Displays one record per bill without performing aggregation.
Bill by Instance
Click All products and then select VOD to view the VOD bills.
Bill fields
Field
Description
Billing Cycle
Daily billing cycle: Fees are deducted daily
Monthly billing cycle: Fees are deducted monthly
Configuration Description
VOD sub-features and their usage in this month. VOD sub-features include:
VOD storage
VOD transcoding
VOD traffic
VOD bandwidth
VOD inappropriate content recognition
Original Cost
Total fees of the sub-features used in this month
Discount Rate
The user’s discount rate this month:
Users on the daily billing cycle do not receive discounts. Their discount rate is 0.
Users on the monthly billing cycle should contact sales to inquire about discounts.
Total Cost
Total cost = Original cost × (1 - Discount rate)
Other fields are assigned by Tencent Cloud. For details, see Bills.
Note: 
If the component type is VOD transcoding, the transcoding template type is indicated in the instance ID. For example:
XXX_h265_sd_640_480 indicates a general transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
XXX_h265_eshd_sd_640_480 indicates a TSC transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
Bill Details
Bill fields
Field
Description
Component Type
VOD sub-feature used in this month
Component Name
Sub-item under this component type
Component’s Published Unit Price
The component’s published unit price without discounts
Component’s Usage
The usage of this component
Discount Rate
The user’s discount rate this month:
Users on the daily billing cycle do not receive discounts. Their discount rate is 0.
Users on the monthly billing cycle will receive discounts and should contact sales for more information.
Usage Duration
Total usage duration of the component
Total Cost
Total cost = Component’s original cost x (1 - Discount rate). 
Component’s original cost = Component’s published unit price x Component’s price unit x Component’s usage x Usage duration
Other fields are assigned by Tencent Cloud. For details, see Bills.
Note: 
 If the component type is VOD transcoding, the transcoding template type is indicated in the instance ID. For example:
XXX_h265_sd_640_480 indicates a general transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
XXX_h265_eshd_sd_640_480 indicates a TSC transcoding template with codec set to H.265 and resolution set to SD (640 × 480) and below.
For example, suppose a user uses the template with codec set to H.264 and resolution set to HD (1280 × 720) and below, and the component’s published unit price is 0.0061 USD/min.
Component’s original cost = 0.00610000 × USD/Transcoding type 2/min × 2.00000000 min × 5.00000000 min = 0.03050000 (USD)
Discount rate = 0
Total cost = 0.0305 USD × 1 = 0.0305 (USD)
VOD bill-by-traffic
Billing mode: Bill-by-traffic
Valid days: The number of valid calendar days used for monthly billing
Billing traffic: The amount of consumed traffic used for billing
Traffic consumption is recorded every five minutes by calendar day, and the total billed traffic is the sum of the traffic of all recorded time points.
VOD pay-as-you-go storage
Date: A valid calendar day used for monthly billing
Usage: Peak VOD storage usage in the day
Note: 
 Monthly storage cost = Total daily peak storage usage × Unit price (the VOD console displays the peak storage usage of the current day)
VOD transcoding
Date: A calendar day
Appid: User account ID
Task ID: ID of the executed task
Transcoding type: General transcoding, TSC transcoding, audio transcoding, and video editing.
Codec: H.264, H.265
Definition: The definition as specified in the transcoding template
Transcoding duration: Transcoding duration of the day
VOD video inappropriate content recognition
Date: A calendar day
Usage: Video duration for inappropriate content recognition in the day

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Field	Description
Billing Cycle	Daily billing cycle: Fees are deducted daily Monthly billing cycle: Fees are deducted monthly
Configuration Description	VOD sub-features and their usage in this month. VOD sub-features include: VOD storage VOD transcoding VOD traffic VOD bandwidth VOD inappropriate content recognition
Original Cost	Total fees of the sub-features used in this month
Discount Rate	The user’s discount rate this month: Users on the daily billing cycle do not receive discounts. Their discount rate is 0. Users on the monthly billing cycle should contact sales to inquire about discounts.
Total Cost	Total cost = Original cost × (1 - Discount rate)

Field	Description
Component Type	VOD sub-feature used in this month
Component Name	Sub-item under this component type
Component’s Published Unit Price	The component’s published unit price without discounts
Component’s Usage	The usage of this component
Discount Rate	The user’s discount rate this month: Users on the daily billing cycle do not receive discounts. Their discount rate is 0. Users on the monthly billing cycle will receive discounts and should contact sales for more information.
Usage Duration	Total usage duration of the component
Total Cost	Total cost = Component’s original cost x (1 - Discount rate). Component’s original cost = Component’s published unit price x Component’s price unit x Component’s usage x Usage duration

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