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Daily Billing for COS Storage Usage, Request, and Data Retrieval
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Last updated: 2022-06-30 16:40:09
Daily Billing for COS Storage Usage, Request, and Data Retrieval
Last updated: 2022-06-30 16:40:09
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Overview

Starting from July 1, 2022, the settlement cycle of COS storage usage, request, and data retrieval billable items will be changed from monthly to daily for you to better manage your fees. This change will be performed on a rolling basis. The change time will be as notified to you by Message Center, email, or SMS. The generated bills will remain unchanged and you do not need to perform any operations.
Note:
Billing mode and billing cycle: COS is pay-as-you-go (postpaid) by default.
Monthly settled resources: Fees incurred from 00:00 on January 1 to 23:59 on January 31 will be deducted on February 1. The record will be posted to the bill for February by deduction cycle and to the bill for January by billing cycle.
Daily settled resources: Fees incurred from 00:00 to 23:59 on January 31 will be deducted on February 1. The record will be posted to the bill for February by deduction cycle and to the bill for January by billing cycle.

Release Time

Starting from July 1, 2022, the settlement cycle will be changed from monthly to daily on a rolling basis. The change time will be as notified to you by Message Center, email, or SMS. After the change is completed, the bill for a day will be issued the next day. We recommend you pay attention to the bill changes.

Change Details

Billing cycle

Billable Item
Before Change
After Change
Storage usage, request, and data retrieval
Settled monthly. Fees incurred in a month will be settled and billed on the first day of the next month.
Settled daily. Fees incurred on a day will be settled and billed on the next day.
Traffic and management feature
Settled daily. Fees incurred on a day will be billed on the next day.
Unchanged.

Unit prices of billable items

The unit prices of billable items after this change are as described below:
Billable Item
Description
Pricing
Billing Cycle
Storage usage
Billed by storage usage and storage period
The price in USD/GB/month is relevant to the billing cycle, where "month" refers to 30 days. If settled daily, the price needs to be converted as follows: daily unit price = monthly unit price / 30. For example, if the monthly unit price of STANDARD storage usage in Beijing region is 0.024 USD/GB/month, its daily unit price is 0.024 / 30 = 0.0008 USD/GB/day.
Daily
Request
Billed by the number of requests sent to COS
The price in USD/10,000 requests is irrelevant to the billing cycle. The price does not need to be converted if settled daily. For example, if the price of STANDARD read and write requests in Beijing region is 0.002 USD/10,000 requests, it remains unchanged no matter whether settled daily or monthly.
Daily
Data retrieval
Billed by the actual amount of retrieved data
The price in USD/GB is irrelevant to the billing cycle. The price does not need to be converted if settled daily. For example, if the price of STANDARD_IA data retrieval in Beijing region is 0.002 USD/GB, it remains unchanged no matter whether settled daily or monthly.
Daily

Note:
Storage usage: It will be billed by month of 30 days if settled monthly or by the actual number of days in each month if settled daily.
Notes on bill fluctuations: Even if the monthly usage remains the same, the storage usage fees will still fluctuate. If you use storage capacity for a whole month, the usage will be billed by 31 days for January, 28 (or 29) days for February, and 30 days for April.

Billing formula

After this change, the billing formula of each billable item for different settlement cycles are as described below:
Billable Item
Subitem
Billing Formula
Billing Cycle
Storage usage
Storage usage
Storage usage fees = monthly storage usage unit price * monthly storage usage
Monthly
Storage usage fees = daily storage usage unit price * daily storage usage = monthly storage usage unit price / 30 * sum of 5-minute storage usage / 288
Daily
Request
Read request
Read request fees = unit price per 10,000 requests * monthly accumulated number of requests / 10,000
Monthly
Read request fees = unit price per 10,000 requests * daily accumulated number of requests / 10,000
Daily
Write request
Write request fees = unit price per 10,000 requests * monthly accumulated number of requests / 10,000
Monthly
Write request fees = unit price per 10,000 requests * daily accumulated number of requests / 10,000
Daily
Retrieval request
Retrieval request fees = unit price per 10,000 requests * monthly accumulated number of requests / 10,000
Monthly
Retrieval request fees = unit price per 10,000 requests * daily accumulated number of requests / 10,000
Daily
Object monitoring
Object monitoring fees = unit price per 10,000 monitored objects * monthly accumulated number of objects / 10,000
Monthly
Object monitoring fees = unit price per 10,000 monitored objects / 30 * daily accumulated number of objects / 10,000
Daily
Data retrieval
Data retrieval
Data retrieval fees = unit price per GB * monthly amount of retrieved data
Monthly
Data retrieval fees = unit price per GB * daily amount of retrieved data
Daily


FAQs

How do I view bills?

You can log in to the Tencent Cloud console to view and download bills in Billing Center > Bills.
Directions
1. Log in to the Tencent Cloud console.
2. Click Billing Center in the top-right corner to enter the overview page.
3. Click Bills > Bill Details to enter the Bill Details page.
4. On the Bill by Instance tab, select COS from the drop-down list to view your COS usage by region, billing mode, transaction type, etc.
5. Download bills in Download Center.

How do I view prices?

For the pay-as-you-go (postpaid) pricing of COS, see Pricing | Cloud Object Storage. You can also estimate your costs by using the Price Calculator.

How do I view the information of billable items?

For more information on COS billable items, see Pay-as-You-Go. For more information on the billable items involved in this change, see the following documents:
Storage Usage Fees
Request Fees
Data Retrieval Fees

Questions?

If you have any questions about this change, contact us for assistance.
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