Billing Mode | Description |
Pay-as-you-go (postpaid) | This is the default billing mode of COS supported in all regions as described in Regions and Access Endpoints, where you use resources first and pay later. Fees of various billable items are calculated, settled, deducted, and billed daily. For more information, see Pay-as-You-Go. |
Resource Pack (Prepaid) | COS offers discounted resource packs for various billing items, which are purchased in advance and used later. During settlement, the system will first deduct the usage of the resource pack, and any extra usage outside of the resource pack will be billed according to the actual usage. Resource packs are only applicable to public cloud regions and are not applicable to financial cloud regions. For more information, please see Prepaid Packages. |
Billable Item | Billing Cycle | Description | Billing Sequence | |
Storage usage fees | | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Free tier > pay-as-you-go, or only pay-as-you-go in case of no free tier. |
| Request fees | Read/Write request fees | Daily | Pay-as-you-go |
| | | DEEP ARCHIVE data retrieval request fees | Pay-as-you-go |
| | | INTELLIGENT TIERING object monitoring fees | Pay-as-you-go |
Data retrieval fees | STANDARD_IA data retrieval fees | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Pay-as-you-go |
| | | | ARCHIVE data retrieval fees |
| DEEP ARCHIVE data retrieval fees | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Pay-as-you-go |
Traffic fees | | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Pay-as-you-go |
Management feature fees | Inventory fees | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Pay-as-you-go |
| Extraction fees | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Pay-as-you-go |
| Batch operation fees | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Pay-as-you-go |
| Object tagging fees | Daily | Fees for a day are settled and billed the next day. | Pay-as-you-go |
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