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Billable items

Data retrievals

You pay for retrieving data from Infrequent Access Storage, Flashback Archive or other storage types. This topic explains how you are charged for data retrievals.

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This topic only provides a description of billable items. For specific prices, see TOS pricing details.

Billable item	Description	Formula (pay-as-you-go)
Infrequent Access Storage - Data retrievals	You are charged based on the volume of data retrieved when accessing an object stored in Infrequent Access Storage. tip If you use HTTP Range requests for partial reads, you are only charged for the byte range retrieved. If you access the object in other ways, the retrieval volume is calculated based on the full object size.	Data retrieval cost = Volume retrieved (GiB) × Price per GiB
Flashback Archive - Data retrievals	You are charged based on the volume of data retrieved when accessing a file stored in Flashback Archive. tip You can retrieve data from Flashback Archive without restoration.	Data retrieval cost = Volume retrieved (GiB) × Price per GiB
Archive - Data retrievals	You need to restore objects in Archive before reading them, which incurs retrieval costs. The restoration process usually takes less than one minute for objects stored in Archive.	Data retrieval cost = Volume retrieved (GiB) × Price per GiB
Cold Archive - Data retrievals	You need to restore objects in Cold Archive before reading them, which incurs retrieval costs. The unit price for data retrieval varies depending on the restoration time. Shorter restoration times result in higher unit prices. Restoration options are as follows: Quick: 1–5 minutes Standard: 2–5 hours Batch: 5–12 hours	Data retrieval cost = Volume retrieved (GiB) × Price per GiB
Deep Cold Archive - Data retrievals	You need to restore objects in Deep Cold Archive before reading them, which incurs retrieval costs. The unit price for data retrieval varies depending on the restoration time. Shorter restoration times result in higher unit prices. Restoration options are as follows: Standard: Within 12 hours Batch: Within 48 hours	Data retrieval cost = Volume retrieved (GiB) × Price per GiB

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