Cross-MLC-border acceleration traffic fee（Pay-as-You-Go）
Note:
Effective November 1, 2026, the EdgeOne billing item "Chinese mainland network optimization traffic" will be renamed to "cross-region acceleration traffic". Fees generated by the Chinese mainland network optimization and advanced origin routing features will be settled under this billing item. This adjustment only standardizes the billing item name. Billing rules and unit prices remain unchanged, and the actual bill amount is not affected.
Cross-region acceleration uses the network acceleration platform within EdgeOne global availability zones to maintain high-speed, secure connections between cross-region users and your services, improving access availability while further reducing network latency. Based on your business scenario, the solutions are divided into the following three types, and the fee stacking relationship is as follows:
Option 1: Enable Chinese mainland network optimization (global acceleration). If you only need to accelerate access from the Chinese mainland to sites deployed outside the Chinese mainland without additional DDoS/CC protection, simply enable the Chinese mainland network optimization (global acceleration) feature. This will incur the "cross-region acceleration traffic fee" described below.
Option 2: Chinese mainland network optimization (global acceleration) + cross-region DDoS/CC protection. If, on top of Option 1, you also need dedicated DDoS/CC attack protection for the "traffic from the Chinese mainland" path, you must subscribe to a DDoS Defender plan (Essential/Premium) and the Cross-Region Protection Capability add-on, and configure the DDoS protection level for your domain names or L4 proxy instances to Ultimate Protection. In this case, in addition to the fees incurred by Option 1 and the DDoS Defender-related fees, an additional "DDoS clean traffic transfer fee (cross-region)" will be incurred. For details, see below. For other detailed architecture descriptions and protection capability comparisons, see Cross-MLC-Border Acceleration.
Option 3: Enable advanced origin routing. For cross-region business scenarios where the origin server is deployed within the Chinese mainland and clients access it through nodes outside the Chinese mainland, or the origin server is deployed outside the Chinese mainland and clients access it through nodes within the Chinese mainland, simply enable the advanced origin routing feature. This will incur the "cross-region acceleration traffic fee" described below.
Cross-Region Acceleration Traffic Fees
Cross-region acceleration includes the Chinese mainland network optimization (global acceleration) feature and the advanced origin routing feature. Both features are supported only in the Enterprise plan and are billed as value-added services based on traffic.
Specific price as follows:
Billing item | Attribute | Price (USD/GB) | Settlement Cycle |
Cross-Region Acceleration Traffic | Chinese mainland network optimization/advanced origin routing | 0.57 | Hour or month |
Note:
Cross-MLC-border acceleration traffic fee is a value-added service fee, which is an additional value-added service fee charged on top of Fees for Out-of-plan Resource Usage in the Basic Services Fees. Since the access point of the Cross-MLC-border acceleration is in Hong Kong (China), it belongs to the Asia Pacific Zone 1 (AP1), so the site usage that generates Fees for Out-of-plan Resource Usage will be billed according to the Asia Pacific Zone 1 (AP1) price.
Example: After
Assume that a user has a site
example.com with the Chinese mainland network optimization (global acceleration) feature enabled at 00:00 on October 21. From October 21 to October 31, security acceleration generated 5 TB of traffic, all originating from users in the Chinese mainland and routed through the Chinese mainland network optimization line. After the Chinese mainland network optimization (global acceleration) feature is enabled, the service access point belongs to Asia Pacific Zone 1. Therefore, the billing is based on the out-of-plan usage fee (postpaid) price. The unit price for Layer 7 basic traffic in this zone is 0.0977 USD/GB, and the unit price for Chinese mainland network optimization traffic is 0.57 USD/GB. Therefore, the total cost incurred in October is as follows:Billable Item | Usage | Price |
L7 (Application Layer) traffic fees | 5 TB | 5 * 1000 * 0.0977 = 488.5 USD |
Cross-Region Acceleration traffic fees | 5 TB | 5 * 1000 * 0.57 = 2850 USD |
Total | | 3338.5 USD |
Example: After
Assume that a user has a site
example.com with the advanced origin-pull optimization feature enabled at 00:00 on October 21. From October 21 to October 31, security acceleration generated 5 TB of traffic. The total cost incurred in October is as follows:Billable Item | Usage | Price |
Cross-Region Acceleration traffic fees | 5 TB | 5 * 1000 * 0.57 = 2850 USD |
Total | | 2850 USD |
DDoS clean traffic transfer fee (cross-region)
If you have subscribed to a DDoS Defender plan (Essential/Premium) and the Cross-Region Protection Capability add-on, and configured the DDoS protection level for your domain names or L4 proxy instances to Ultimate Protection, traffic from Mainland China will be scrubbed and then reinjected into acceleration nodes in global areas (excluding Mainland China). This clean traffic transfer after protection will incur an additional "DDoS clean traffic transfer fee (cross-region)", which is billed on top of the "Cross-MLC-border acceleration traffic fee".
Specific prices are as follows (postpaid pay-as-you-go, with hourly settlement):
Tiered Usage (USD/GB) | Unit Price | |
0 – 100 TB (excl.) | 0.47 | |
100 – 500 TB (excl.) | 0.42 | |
500 – 1,000 TB (excl.) | 0.36 | |
1,000 – 5,000 TB (excl.) | 0.32 | |
≥ 5000 TB | 0.28 | |
Note:
DDoS clean traffic transfer fee (cross-region) does not support the use of in-package included traffic from EO or DDoS plans for deduction.
Example: Solution 2 (Cross-MLC-border Acceleration + Cross-Region DDoS/CC Protection), and total clean traffic for the month is 5 TB
Assume that a user has subscribed to the Essential plan and the Cross-Region Protection Capability add-on of DDoS Defender, and configured the DDoS protection level for the site
example.com to Ultimate Protection. The Cross-MLC-border acceleration feature is also enabled for this site. In that month:The total clean traffic is 5 TB, all originating from users in the Chinese mainland and routed through the Cross-MLC-border acceleration line (Asia Pacific Zone 1).
5 TB of clean traffic transfer (global, excluding Chinese mainland) after DDoS protection;
5 TB of clean traffic transfer (cross-region) after DDoS protection;
There are a total of 30 EO domain names under the site
example.com that are configured to Ultimate DDoS protection level.According to the plan rules, the Essential plan includes 10 TB of clean traffic transfer + 25 protection resources free of charge per month. In this example, the 5 TB of clean traffic transfer is within the free quota. However, the 30 protection resources exceed the quota by 5. The excess resources are billed at the postpaid tiered price of 0.05 USD per resource/hour (0 - 100 resource tier), with an hourly settlement cycle. The total cost for that month consists of the following:
Billing item | Usage | Price |
L7 (Application Layer) traffic fee (Asia Pacific 1) | 5 TB | 5 × 1000 × 0.0977 = 488.5 USD |
Cross-MLC-border acceleration service charges | 5 TB | 5 × 1000 × 0.57 = 2850 USD |
DDoS clean traffic (global, excluding Chinese mainland) | 5 TB (within the free 10 TB plan quota) | 0 USD |
DDoS clean traffic (cross-region) | 5 TB (not eligible for plan quota deduction) | 5 × 1000 × 0.47 = 2350 USD |
DDoS Defender Plan (Essential Edition) | 1 set/month | 1300 USD |
Cross-region protection capability add-on | 1 set/month | 13000 USD |
DDoS protected resources (EO domain) | 30 (25 free within the plan, 5 exceeding) | 5 × 0.05 × 24 × 30 = 180 USD |
Total | | 20168.5 USD |