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Billing overview

This topic outlines the billing details for vePFS, covering billing types, cycles, components, and formulas.

Billing method

Currently, vePFS only supports pay-as-you-go billing. Subscription billing is not an option.

Pay-as-you-go is a postpaid billing method, which means you use the service first and then pay for it. Specifically, bills are calculated by multiplying the specifications you select for your file system by the billing cycle. You can settle the fees after the bill is generated.

Billing cycle

vePFS tracks the usage of all billable items on an hourly basis and generates bills based on the usage.

Billing components

This section outlines the billing components of vePFS. For billing details, see vePFS pricing details.

The cost of using vePFS consists of:

Base charge: The storage capacity fee incurred during the use of vePFS.

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Storage capacity is calculated in binary units. For example, 1 GiB equals 1,024 MiB.

Value-added costs: Expenses related to advanced features provided by vePFS. Examples include the Data flow bandwidth fee generated by the Data Flow feature and the protocol service bandwidth fee generated by the protocol service.

Billable item	Billing method	Description
Storage capacity fee	Pay-as-you-go	Calculated based on the capacity specification selected for file system and the length of time
Data flow bandwidth fee	Pay-as-you-go	Calculated based on the bandwidth specification selected for Data Flow and the length of time
Protocol service bandwidth fee	Pay-as-you-go	Calculated based on the bandwidth specification selected for protocol service and the length of time

Billing formula

vePFS calculates service fees based on standard capacity and length of time, both of which are billed on an hourly basis. The formula is as follows: Hourly cost for storage capacity = Storage capacity × Monthly rate ÷ 30 (days) ÷ 24 (hours).

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The price unit for storage capacity is ¥/GiB/month. In practice, the billing platform converts ¥/GiB/month to ¥/GiB/hour using the following formula: Hourly rate = Monthly rate ÷ 30 (days) ÷ 24 (hours).

Associated costs

Creating a mount service will provision three Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances on a pay-as-you-go basis to act as client management nodes. ECS will charge you for using its features. For more information on ECS instance billing, see Billing by instance type.

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A list of supported ECS instance types can be found at Supported ECS instance types for mount service. Should there be any inconsistency, the types on the console shall prevail.

Before creating a mount service, ensure that the availability zone of your vePFS file system meets the requirements of your chosen ECS instance type.

Last updated: 2026.03.03 10:17:40