Bare Metal Billing
Bare metal instances, bandwidth, data transfer, elastic IPs, CIDR blocks are billable; virtual private clouds (VPCs) and subnets are free for use.
Prerequisites
Please first see General Pricing Rules and General Lifecycle Rules to know about basic pricing ways of subscription and pay-as-you-go resources.
A bare metal instance includes the computing resources (CPUs and memory), storage resources, IPs, bandwidth, data transfer, VLAN, CIDR blocks, VPCs and subnets.
Note
The actual price varies in different locations and zones, therefore the price shown on the order page shall prevail.
Bare Metal Instance
The billing method of bare metal instances is Subscription. You pay for a bare metal instance including:
Hardware configurations: Operating systems, HDD/SAS/SATA, RAID, etc.
A piece of public IPv4
A piece of public IPv6 (subject to zones)
Included bandwidth (10 M/30 M/50 M/100 M subject to zones)
Note
Pay-as-you-go instances are available for VIP customers now.
Please contact us if you need.
Network
Note
The following network billing methods are supported for now. If you need others, please contact our sales support.
Flat Rate Bandwidth
You can set a bandwidth cap for your stable business with little bursty traffic, and use unlimited data transfer. You will be charged based on the bandwidth size.
Note
You can pay your bandwidth afterward together with the instance by hour.
Please contact us if you need.
Burstable 95th
You use first and pay afterward by month. If you have a base commit rate, you need to pay that part first. The system samples the peak bandwidth of each instance monthly, and discard the top 5% of the samples. The highest value left is taken as your actual bandwidth usage. Instances with pricing model of burstable 95th will be billed as follows:
Monthly payment = Resource payment (Monthly price of computing + storage) + Bandwidth payment (95th percentile bandwidth (Mbps) × Monthly price per Mbps × Effective factor).
Note
Effective factor = Number of valid days in a calendar month/Total number of days in the calendar month.
There are 3 kinds of burstable 95th billing models:
| Billing Model | Billing Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
Burstable 95th volume pricing | 95th percentile bandwidth usage of one instance | The price of all the bandwidth units you have used is within the set price range. |
Burstable 95th tiered pricing | 95th percentile bandwidth usage of one instance | The price per bandwidth unit you have used is within a particular price range. Once you fill up one tier you move to the next. |
Burstable 95th with commitment | 95th percentile bandwidth usage of one instance | You pay the bandwidth commitment first and usage exceeded the base commit rate will be paid afterward by Mbps. The minimum commitment for each instance is 200 Mbps. |
Aggregated Burstable 95th
You use first and pay afterward by month. If you have a base commit rate, you need to pay that part first. The system samples the peak bandwidth of all your instances in one bandwidth cluster each month, and discard the top 5% of the samples. The highest value left is taken as the billable bandwidth.
There are 3 kinds of aggregated burstable 95th billing models:
| Billing Model | Billing Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
Burstable 95th volume pricing | 95th percentile bandwidth usage of all instances in one bandwidth cluster | The price of all the bandwidth units you have used is within the set price range. |
Burstable 95th tiered pricing | 95th percentile bandwidth usage of all instances in one bandwidth cluster | The price per bandwidth unit you have used is within a particular price range. Once you fill up one tier you move to the next. |
Burstable 95th with commitment | 95th percentile bandwidth usage of all instances in one bandwidth cluster | You pay the bandwidth commitment first and usage exceeded the base commit rate will be post paid by Mbps. Note The minimum commitment for each instance is 300 Mbps. |
Note
All your instances in one bandwidth cluster will be billed together with no bandwidth commitment.
You will not be billed for a bandwidth cluster if no instances are added in.
Data Transfer
You can purchase subscription data transfer package or pay-as-you-go data transfer. You are billed by the egress data transfer.
Subscription The data transfer in the subscription package is only valid within a calendar month, and data consumed beyond the package will be paid per GB by hour afterward.
Pay-as-you-go You will be charged per GB by hour. If any overdue payment exists, service and billing will stop and all data will be stored for 24 hours.
For both subscription and pay-as-you-go instances, data transfer usage displayed in the instance list is calculated on a calendar month basis since creation. A calendar month is the the period from a day of one month to the corresponding day of the next month if such exists or if not to the last day of the next month (as from January 3 to February 3 or from January 31 to February 29).
Here are examples.
Assume you purchase a 3-month subscription instance on May 15. It is billed by data transfer with a package of 5 TB every month. Then
0.00TB / 5.00TBhere represents the used and total data transfer from May 15 to May 31st. The data will be reset from Jun. 1st and calculated again for the following calendar month, that is from Jun. 1st to Jun. 30.Assume you purchase a pay-as-you-go instance on May 15. It is billed by data transfer per GB by hour. Then
0.00TBhere represents the used data transfer from May 15 to May 31st. The data will be reset from Jun. 1st and calculated again for the following calendar month, that is from Jun. 1st to Jun. 30.
Note
You are highly recommended to buy a sufficient data transfer package according to your actual business.
Elastic IP
| Elastic IP Type | Billing Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
Ordinary elastic IP | Number of IPs |
CIDR Block
IPv4 CIDR block and IPv6 CIDR block are supported on zenConsole.
| CIDR Block Type | Billing Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
IPv4 CIDR block | Number of available IPs | 64 available IPs are supported in one zone by default. Please contact us if your required quantity exceeds the existing stock. |
IPv6 CIDR block | Free for use | An IPv6 CIDR block contains 500 available IPs and you can create at most 5 IPv6 CIDR blocks in one zone. |
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