Billing modes and items

Overview

All paid services of KS3 are charged separately. For example, storage fees are incurred when you store objects in KS3, fees for outbound traffic over Internet are incurred when you access the objects stored in KS3 over Internet, and fees for cross-region replication traffic are incurred when you use cross-region replication to synchronize data from a source bucket to a destination bucket. This topic describes the billing items and modes of KS3.

Billing modes

KS3 supports the following billing modes: Pay-As-You-Go (daily settlement and monthly settlement) and Subscription (daily settlement only).

Note:

• You must activate KS3 before selecting a billing mode.
• Current resource packages do not apply to all billing items. If the resource package that you purchase does not apply to a billing item, the corresponding fee is deducted from your account balance.

Billing cycle

Usage of all resources in KS3 is calculated on a daily basis.

Settlement cycle

KS3 provides two settlement modes, that is, daily settlement and monthly settlement.

Description:

• Kingsoft Cloud charges you a fee for each billing item of KS3 based on the following formula: Fee = Actual usage × Unit price.
• If you select daily settlement, the fees incurred on the current day are deducted on the next day.
• If you select monthly settlement, the fees are daily calculated by multiplying the actual usage on the previous day by the unit price and are added up on a monthly basis. At the beginning of each month, Kingsoft Cloud provides you with the bill of the last month, and you need to pay for the bill accordingly.
• In daily settlement mode, both the Pay-As-You-Go and Subscription billing modes are available.

1. Daily settlement

Billing procedure

If you select the Pay-As-You-Go billing mode, make sure that you have an account and enough account balance. The billing procedure is as follows:

1. Top up your account: You need to top up your account in advance and keep enough balance in your account. If you fail to pay an overdue bill within 30 days, Kingsoft Cloud reclaims your KS3 storage quotas and resources.

2. Activate KS3: Make sure that you have activated KS3. Kingsoft Cloud automatically deducts KS3 fees from your account based on the actual usage.

3. Deduct fees: On the next day, Kingsoft Cloud deducts the KS3 fees that are incurred on the current day.

4. View your bills: You can log in to the Kingsoft Cloud console and click Billing in the top navigation bar. On the Account page, you can view your daily bills.

2. Monthly settlement

In monthly settlement mode, the fees are daily calculated by multiplying the actual usage on the previous day by the daily unit price and are added up for a calendar month. Kingsoft Cloud provides you with the bill of a month on the first workday of the next month, and you need to pay the bill accordingly.

Billing procedure

1. Generate a monthly bill: Kingsoft Cloud generates the bill of a month on the first workday of the next month.

2. Pay the bill: You need to pay the actual usage fees of the last month based on the monthly bill. If you fail to pay an overdue bill within 30 days, Kingsoft Cloud reclaims your KS3 storage quotas and resources.

Billing items

Kingsoft Cloud charges you fees for storage usage, traffic usage, API operation calls, data retrieval, and data management in KS3. By default, you are charged based on the actual usage after you activate KS3.

KS3 fees consist of storage fees, traffic fees, API operation calling fees, data retrieval fees, and data management fees.

For more information about the billing standards, see Price information of Kingsoft Cloud Standard Storage Service (KS3).

1. Storage fee:

KS3 provides the following storage classes: Standard, Infrequent Access (IA), and Archive. Kingsoft Cloud charges you storage fees based on the storage classes, occupied storage space, and storage duration of the objects that you store.

Billing item	Description	Billing method
Usage of Standard storage	Billed based on the occupied storage space and storage duration of objects.	Pay-As-You-Go: The storage fees are daily calculated by multiplying the occupied storage space of the previous day by the daily unit price. The daily unit price is calculated based on the billing cycle, which is a calendar month. Subscription: Standard storage package: A storage package can deduct the storage fees for Standard storage objects of the same size as the capacity of the package.
Usage of IA storage	Billed based on the occupied storage space and storage duration of objects.	Pay-As-You-Go: The storage fees are daily calculated by multiplying the occupied storage space of the previous day by the daily unit price. The daily unit price is calculated based on the billing cycle, which is a calendar month. The minimum storage duration is 30 days. If an IA storage object is deleted or overwritten within 30 days, the storage fees for the object are charged as it is stored for 30 days, including the remaining duration. If the storage duration exceeds 30 days, no additional duration needs to be added.
Usage of Archive storage	Billed based on the occupied storage space and storage duration of objects.	Pay-As-You-Go: The storage fees are daily calculated by multiplying the occupied storage space of the previous day by the daily unit price. The daily unit price is calculated based on the billing cycle, which is a calendar month. The minimum storage duration is 90 days. If an Archive storage object is deleted or overwritten within 90 days, the storage fees for the object are charged as it is stored for 90 days, including the remaining duration. If the storage duration exceeds 90 days, no additional duration needs to be added.

Note:

The unit of storage fees is CNY per GB per month. In Pay-As-You-Go mode, the unit price needs to be converted to CNY per GB per day based on the following formula to calculate the actual storage fees: Daily storage unit price per GB for a month = Monthly storage unit price/Number of days in that month. For example, the monthly unit price is CNY 0.12/GB/month for Standard storage. In a month of 30 days, the daily unit price per GB is CNY 0.12/30.

2. Traffic fee:

Traffic is the cumulative value of the data flow generated when you access KS3, including outbound traffic over Internet, outbound traffic over internal network, inbound traffic over Internet, inbound traffic over internal network, Kingsoft Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) back-to-origin outbound traffic, and cross-region replication traffic. Kingsoft Cloud charges you traffic fees based on the usage of the traffic generated when you access KS3.

The following table describes the traffic billing items of KS3.

3. API operation calling fee:

You are charged based on the count of KS3 API operation calls. All of your operations in KS3 are implemented by calling KS3 API operations. Currently, only the Pay-As-You-Go mode is available. The minimum billing unit is 10,000 requests.

Note:

The API operation calling fees vary based on the storage class. For more information, see Price information of Kingsoft Cloud Standard Storage Service (KS3).

4. Data retrieval fee:

Data retrieval fees only apply to IA and Archive storage objects. Data retrieval fees of IA storage objects are incurred when you read IA storage objects, whether over Internet or internal network, and are charged based on the size of data generated. Data retrieval fees of Archive storage objects are incurred when you restore Archive storage objects and are charged based on the size of objects after restoration.

5. Data management fee:

Data management fees are incurred when you use data management features, such as object tagging. Object tagging enables you to categorize and manage your objects more easily by adding multiple tags to an object or adding the same tag to multiple objects.

Note: This billing item is free of charge during the public preview.

Overdue payment

When your payment is overdue, you can still use KS3 within 48 hours, but a reminder is displayed in the KS3 console indicating that the service is about to be suspended. You need to top up your account during this period to ensure proper operating of your business. After 48 hours, KS3 automatically stops operating. You cannot read data from or write data to KS3, but your buckets will continue to be charged. The arrears accumulate until the data in your buckets is destroyed. Considering the importance of data, Kingsoft Cloud keeps your data for 30 days. The service will be resumed after you pay the arrears and the account balance is greater than 0. If you do not renew your service within 30 days, Kingsoft Cloud determines that you have unsubscribed from KS3. Kingsoft Cloud will not continue to retain your data, and your data will be destroyed and cannot be restored.