Data processing fees
Updated at：2025-11-03
BOS data processing fees include Select Scanning, [Image Processing](BOS/Data processing/Image Processing Guide V2.0/Image Scaling.md), Video Processing - Video Frame Capture, Document Preview, Inventory Function, and data access trend analysis.
For details on data processing charge types, please refer to "Product Pricing" > "Product Prices" > "Pay-as-you-go Charge Type" for pay-as-you-go charge.
| Category | Sub-charge item | Metering type | Charge type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image processing fee | |||
| Basic image processing fee | The basic image processing fee refers to the fee incurred during basic image processing operations such as scaling, cropping, rotation, format conversion, progressive display, quality transformation and watermarking on images stored in BOS. BOS will charge based on the size of the image before processing. BOS provides each user with 10 TB of free monthly credit quota for basic image processing. When the amount of images you process in a month exceeds 10 TB, the excess usage will be charged. This fee will be billed by hour. | 10 TB of processing capacity is given away monthly (natural month), and the excess part is charged on a pay-as-you-go basis | |
| HEIC image compression fee (for specifications below 800 × 600) | This fee is incurred from advanced image processing services. If you use BOS’s HEIC image compression service and the original image size to be processed is below 800 × 600, this fee will be generated. This fee will be billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| HEIC image compression fee (for specifications above 800 × 600) | This fee is incurred from advanced image processing services. If you use BOS’s HEIC image compression service and the original image size to be processed is above 800 × 600, this fee will be generated. This fee will be billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| WebP-M6 image compression fee (specification below 800 × 600) | This fee is incurred from advanced image processing services. If you use BOS’s WebP-M6 image compression service and the original image size to be processed is below 800 × 600, this fee will be generated. This fee will be billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| WebP-M6 image compression fee (specification above 800 × 600) | This fee is incurred from advanced image processing services. If you use BOS’s WebP-M6 image compression service and the original image size to be processed is above 800 × 600, this fee will be generated. This fee will be billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Intelligent effect - intelligent defogging | This fee is incurred from intelligent image effect services. If you use intelligent defogging, it can remove fog from images where details are indistinguishable due to heavy fog, restoring clearer and more realistic images. This charge item is charged based on the number of calls and billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Intelligent scenario - style conversion | This fee is incurred from intelligent image scenario services. If you use style conversion, you can convert images into a total of 9 styles, including cartoons, pencil drawings, colored pencil drawings, Gothic oil paintings, colored candy oil paintings, The Scream oil paintings, The Great Wave off Kanagawa oil paintings, fantasy oil paintings and lavender oil paintings. It can be used to carry out interesting activities or integrated into Meitu APP for image style conversion. This charge item is charged based on the number of calls and billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Intelligent scenario - portrait animation | This fee is incurred from intelligent image scenario services. Portrait animation technology uses world-leading generative adversarial networks, combined with face detection, hair segmentation, portrait segmentation, etc., to create customized thousands-of-faces 2D anime images for users; moreover, through parameter settings, 2D anime portraits with masks can be generated. This charge item is charged based on the number of calls and billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Intelligent scenario - object erasure | This fee is incurred from intelligent image scenario services. Object erasure can remove unwanted occluders from pictures and fill them with background content to improve image quality. This charge item is charged based on the number of calls and billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Intelligent scenario - stretch repair | This fee is incurred from intelligent image scenario services. Stretch repair can automatically identify over-stretched images and restore the image content to its normal proportion. This charge item is charged based on the number of calls and billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Intelligent scenario - black and white coloring | This fee is incurred from intelligent image scenario services. Black and white coloring can intelligently identify the content of black and white images and fill them with colors, making black and white images vivid. This charge item is charged based on the number of calls and billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Intelligent scenario - lossless magnification | This fee is incurred from intelligent image scenario services. Lossless magnification can magnify the input image twice in both length and width directions while maintaining the image quality as much as possible. This charge item is charged based on the number of calls and billed by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Select scanning fee | Select scanning fee | Select scanning is a value-added service provided by BOS for big data scenarios. If you call BOS Select-related APIs or initiate a Select scanning operation on files through the console, Select scanning fees will be incurred. The system will charge for this operation based on the size (GB) of the files you scan and issue bills by hour. | Pay-as-you-go |
| Video frame capture fee | Video frame capture fee | Video frame capture is a value-added service provided by BOS for intelligently capturing single-frame images from video files. If you call the BOS video frame capture API, corresponding fees will be incurred. The system will charge based on the number of successfully captured images and issue bills by hour. | Pay-as-you-go |
| Document preview fee | |||
| Document to image conversion fee | It refers to the fee incurred by using the document-to-image function when using the document preview service. If you call the BOS document preview API, corresponding fees will be incurred. The system will charge based on the number of successfully converted images and issue bills by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Document to HTML conversion fee | It refers to the fee incurred by using the document-to-HTML function when using the document preview service. If you call the BOS document preview API, corresponding fees will be incurred. The system will charge based on the number of successful HTML conversions and issue bills by hour. | Pay-as-you-go | |
| Bucket inventory | Inventory function fee | Based on the user’s inventory task configuration, it regularly scans specified objects in the user’s bucket daily or weekly and outputs an inventory report file in CSV format, which lists the objects and their corresponding metadata information. The system charges based on the number of objects (files) listed by the bucket inventory function and issues bills by hour. | Pay-as-you-go |
| Data access trend analysis | Data access trend analysis fee | Based on the user’s data access trend analysis task configuration, it regularly analyzes objects in the specified bucket or prefix and outputs charts of the analysis results. The system charges based on the number of objects (files) analyzed by the data access trend analysis function and issues bills by hour. | Pay-as-you-go |
Description:
- The Select scanning charge item has been effective since March 31, 2020;
- Basic image processing, along with HEIC and WebP-M6 image compression under advanced image processing, has been chargeable since June 1, 2020. You can view your image processing usage data on the BOS console's global overview page.
- The video frame capture feature has been chargeable since April 1, 2022. Individual image processing usage data can be viewed on the BOS console's global overview page.
- The document preview capture feature has been chargeable since September 20, 2022.
- Charges for inventory function items began on December 8, 2022.