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Billing Overview

Last updated: 2024-04-10 16:49:37
This document describes COS billing modes, billable items, billing cycles, and prices.

Billing Mode

COS is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis as detailed below:
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 Items

Billable items in COS include storage usage, requests, data retrieval, traffic, and management features. For more information, see Traffic Fees.




Billing Cycle

The billing cycles and sequence of COS billable items are as detailed below:
Note:
Starting from September 1, 2022, COS storage usage, request, and data retrieval fees are settled daily. For more information, see Daily Billing for COS Storage Usage, Request, and Data Retrieval.
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


Pricing

You can check the prices of COS billable items at Pricing | Cloud Object Storage.

References

1. For more information on COS fees calculation and billing in different scenarios, see Billing Examples.
2. For more information on the COS payment overdue policy (data retention and destruction), see Payment Overdue.
3. For more information on billing cycles, see Bill Management.
4. If you have more questions about COS billing, see FAQs or contact us.
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