VAU Fee (Pay-as-You-Go)
EdgeOne value-added services are billed on Value-Added Service Usage Unit (VAU).
Pricing
VAU price: 0.0143 USD
Scope of use: All EdgeOne value-added services except dedicated DDoS mitigation and edge functions (see the table below).
VAU Conversion
This table describes how to convert value-added service usage to VAUs:
Category | Item | Description | Conversion rate |
Usage-based | QUIC requests | 100 VAU/million requests | |
| Smart acceleration requests | 100 VAU/million requests | |
| Bot requests | 100 VAU/million requests | |
quota-based (Only for Enterprise plan) | Precise access control rule quotas in Web Protection - Custom Rules | 100 VAUs/rule/month | |
| Rate limiting rule quotas | 100 VAUs/rule/month | |
| Site quota | Quota of sites included in a plan. | 100 VAUs/site/month |
| Quota for L4 proxy instances in Chinese mainland and Global service areas | Contact us for the quotes | |
| Quota of L4 proxy instances in Global (MLC excluded) service area | | Free of charge |
Note
1. Number of VAUs = Usage of the service x Usage per VAU
2. VAU fees = Total VAUs x VAU unit price.
3. After adjustment on the calculation unit of VAU, the conversion rate for QUIC is doubled from 0.5 VAU/10,000 requests to 100 VAU/million requests. To prevent this change from affecting QUIC settlement fees, the unit price of the QUIC business will have a 50% discount by default during VAU settlement, that is, the price is reduced to 0.00715 USD/VAU. For details, see Example 1 at the end of this document.
Example 1: During a billing cycle, 10M QUIC requests and 20M smart acceleration requests are consumed.
For usage-based services, VAUs are calculated depending on the actual usage.
10M QUIC requests= 100 VAU/million requests × 10 = 1000 VAUs = 1000 x 0.0143 * 50%（discount）= 7.15 USD.
20M smart acceleration requests = ****100 VAU/million requests x 20 = 2000 VAUs = 2000 × 0.0143 = 28.6 USD.
So these numbers add up to 35.75 USD.
Example 2: An Enterprise user purchased one more rate limiting rule and one site at different times within the current month.
For quota-based services, VAUs are calculated depending on the proportion of usage days in the current calendar month.
Assume that the quota for one rate limiting rule is purchased at 00:00 on April 1. By the point of 23:59 on April 30, the quota is still valid. The rule quota is converted to 100 VAUs and costs 1.43 USD (100 VAUs × 0.0143 USD). Note that to delete a quota, you need to Contact us.
Assume that the quota of one site is purchased at 00:00 on April 11. By the point of 23:59 on April 30, the quota is still valid. The billable period of this quota usage is 20 days (30 days – 10 days), that is, 20/30 in the proportion of usage days in the calendar month. The site quota is converted to 66.7 VAUs (1 quota × (20/30) × 100 VAUs), which is rounded down to 66 VAUs, resulting in a cost of 0.9438 USD (66 VAUs × 0.0143 USD).