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Billing overview

This topic provides a quick overview of Container Registry (CR) billing, including the billing items, billing cycles, and billing methods.

Price calculator

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The pricing module in Volcano Engine serves only as a reference for product specifications and prices. The product specifications available for purchase and their prices are subject to your order.

Decimal amounts displayed on the price calculator are rounded to two decimal places based on the third decimal digit. If an amount is less than ¥0.01 after rounding, it is displayed as ¥0.01.

You can use the price calculator to estimate costs based on your business needs.

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Billing instructions

Volcano Engine CR currently supports multiple instance specifications, and the billing method varies by instance specification. For billing details, see Billing items.

Standard Edition instance: Designed for enterprise-level users and medium-to-large teams, it provides capabilities such as dedicated data storage, dedicated Registry services, access control, image acceleration, and OCI artifact management, catering to scenarios that require secure hosting and large-scale distribution.

Micro Edition instance: Provides basic image hosting capabilities for small and micro enterprises, as well as individual developers.

Billing items

The billing items for CR are outlined in the table below.

Billing item	Description	Documentation link
Instance fee	The fee incurred for using an instance. After an instance is created, the instance fee is incurred from when the instance starts running normally until it stops running or is successfully destroyed.	Instance fee
Proxy cache registry fee	The fee incurred for using an instance. After an instance is created, the instance fee is incurred from when the instance starts running normally until it stops running or is successfully destroyed.	Proxy cache registry fee
Origin pull traffic fee	Traffic charges incurred when image data is transferred from upstream registries, such as Docker Hub and GHCR, to a proxy cache repository during image pulls.	Origin pull traffic fee
Traffic fee	The data transfer fee for pushing or pulling container images or Helm charts.	Traffic fee
Storage capacity fee	The storage capacity fee for hosting and storing container images or Helm charts in an instance.	Storage capacity fee
Namespace quota	The cost incurred when the number of namespaces exceeds the standard quota.	Namespace quota
OCI artifact repository quota	The fee for the number of OCI artifact repositories used beyond the standard quota.	OCI artifact repository quota
VPC access quota	The fee for the number of VPC connections used beyond the standard quota.	VPC access quota

Billing examples

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The price calculated in the console when you create the instance shall prevail.

Standard quota

Assume that on April 1, 2022, at 00:00, you created one Standard Edition instance in the China (Beijing) region using the Pay-as-you-go billing method. After one month (30 days), you used a total of 500 MB of outbound traffic over the public network for pushing and pulling container images over the public network. The hosted images consumed a total storage capacity of 2 TiB. The total fees for April would be calculated as follows:

Instance fee	Fee for outbound traffic over the public network	Storage capacity fee	Total fees
1418.4 CNY	0.25 CNY	202.752 CNY	1621.402 CNY
=1 instance × 1.97 CNY/hour/instance × (24 × 30) hours	=0.5 CNY/GB × (500 ÷ 1000)GB	= 0.099 CNY/GiB/month × (2 × 1024) GiB × 1 month	=(1418.4 + 0.25 + 202.752) CNY

Over-quota

Assume that on April 1, 2022, at 00:00, you created one Standard Edition instance in the China (Beijing) region using the Pay-as-you-go billing method. After one month (30 days), you used a total of 500 MB of outbound traffic over the public network for pushing and pulling container images over the public network. The hosted images consumed a total storage capacity of 2 TiB. If the namespace quota is increased to 100, the OCI artifact repository quota to 5,000, and the VPC access quota to 6, the total cost for April would be as follows:

Instance fee	Fee for outbound traffic over the public network	Storage capacity fee	Total fees
1933.92 CNY	0.25 CNY	202.752 CNY	2136.922 CNY
= 1 instance × (1.97 + ((100 - 50) / 10) × 0.07 + ((5000 - 3000) / 1000) × 0.138 + (6 - 5) × 0.09) CNY/hour/instance × (24 × 30) hours	=0.5 CNY/GB × (500 ÷ 1000)GB	=0.099 CNY/GiB/month × (2 × 1024) GiB × 1 month	=(1933.92 + 0.25 + 202.752) CNY

Billing cycle

CR measures the usage of all resources on an hourly basis and generates bills accordingly. The actual amount and bill generation time are subject to the Volcano Engine system.

Billing methods

Pay-as-you-go billing

CR supports Pay-as-you-go, a postpaid billing method under which you use the service before paying for it. The bill amount is calculated by multiplying the usage by the unit price and is deducted directly from your Volcano Engine account balance.

Mixed billing

In the mixed billing model, instance fees and quota expansion fees are billed on a Subscription basis and must be paid in advance. However, this model offers greater discounts than Pay-as-you-go. Outbound traffic over the public network and storage capacity still follow the Pay-as-you-go rules.

Renewal description

Currently, the Subscription resources in the mixed billing model support automatic renewal. For details, see Automatic-renewal rules.

Last updated: 2026.09.23 14:37:19