On-Demand Billing
Updated at：2025-10-27
Pay-as-you-go adopts a postpaid mode, with fees calculated per minute and deducted per hour.
Billing process
- Activate resources: Go to the product details page to activate postpaid resources.
- Generate order: After the resource is activated, an order with an amount of 0 will be generated.
- Generate bill: The system will generate an unpaid bill based on your resource usage.
- Pay bill: You can pay the bill using your cash balance or coupon.
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Handle debt:
- If your account balance is insufficient to pay the fees for this bill during the deduction process, it will result in debt. After the debt, the postpaid resources will be suspended, and the system will remind you via SMS that your current account is in debt and the resources have been suspended.
- To minimize inconvenience caused by service suspension due to debt, please recharge with cash as soon as possible after your account incurs debt. The recharged amount will be used to settle the debt first.
Billing example
Take the purchase of Baidu AI Cloud Object Storage (BOS) as an example:
If you activated the Baidu AI Cloud Object Storage (BOS) on-demand service at 10:00 on January 10 and released the service at 11:02 on January 10, a total of 62 minutes will be charged. The system will first deduct the usage fee for 60 minutes from 10:00-11:00, then deduct the usage fee for 2 minutes from 11:01-11:02.