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Of this, 20 GB/month can be used in the Chinese mainland, and 200 GB/month can be used outside the Chinese mainland.'"},{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/cdt/internet-data-transfers/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'The 220 GB free quota applies only to outbound traffic (data sent to the Internet). Inbound traffic is never billed and does not consume the free quota.'"},{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/cdt/internet-data-transfers/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'The free quota is calculated at the Alibaba Cloud account level ... refreshes at 00:00 on the 1st of each calendar month and does not roll over to the next month.'"}],"verdict":"fails-egress","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 90 of trial credit for 3 months; 220 GB a month of egress free on any account","notes":"Two clocks: the egress quota is standing and account level, while the VM that would spend it is a 3-month trial. The 220 GB quota applies to pay-by-data-transfer BGP (Multi-ISP) traffic only; pay-by-bandwidth instances cannot use it.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"an ECS instance is an ordinary Linux VM with a public IP and a security group that accepts UDP rules, so wg-quick is native; the free trial is the constraint, not the network path","ingress":"udp","volume_tib_month":0.2,"volume_stated":"The first 220 GB per month is free: 20 GB for the Chinese mainland and 200 GB for regions outside.","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"bytes leave through the ECS public IP as BGP (Multi-ISP) internet traffic, which is the only class the free quota covers"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":220,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":220,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":90,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":90,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.limits[1].value","withheld"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}