Billing

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The Billing Summary is only available for date ranges spanning a month or longer.

The Billing Summary report provides deeper insights into the following billing categories:

Report Data	Details
Account Name	The account for which billing statistics are provided.
Channel Hours	The number of hours that the account's live channels were streamed.
VOD Hours	The number of hours that the account's on-demand content was streamed.
Event Hours	The number of hours that the account's live events were streamed.
Total Hours Watched	The total number of hours that the account's content was streamed.

Report Data	Details
Account Name	The account for which billing statistics are provided.
Channel Encoding Hours	The number of hours for which content was encoded due to a live channel.
VOD Encoding Hours	The number of hours for which content was encoded for on-demand playback. This metric excludes content encoded for a live channel or a live event.
Live Event Encoding Hours	The number of hours for which content was encoded due to a live event.
CloudSlicer Live Encoding Hours	The number of hours for which content was encoded due to a live event originated from Cloud Slicers.
CloudSlicer VOD Encoding Hours	The number of hours for which content was encoded for on-demand playback originated from Cloud Slicers.
Total Encoding Hours	The total number of hours for which content was encoded.

Report Data	Details
Account Name	The account for which billing statistics are provided.
Channel Storage Hours	The number of hours of on-demand content stored in a library that was generated from a live channel.
VOD Storage Hours	The number of hours of on-demand content stored in a library that was not generated for a live channel or a live event.
Live Event Storage Hours	The number of hours of on-demand content stored in a library that was generated from a live event.
Storage Hours	The total number of hours of on-demand content stored during the report's time period.

Report Data	Details
Account Name	The account for which billing statistics are provided.
Channel Cloud Slicing Hours	The number of hours of content sliced by a Cloud Slicer due to a live channel.
VOD Cloud Slicing Hours	The number of hours of content sliced by a Cloud Slicer for on-demand playback. This metric excludes content sliced for a live channel or a live event.
Live Event Cloud Slicing Hours	The number of hours of content sliced by a Cloud Slicer due to a live event.
Cloud Slicing Hours	The total number of hours of content sliced by a Cloud Slicer.
Spot Slicing Hours	The number of hours of content sliced by a VOD Cloud Slicer. This includes ingest (via S3 bucket ingest and VoD uploader) and post ingest asset processing (clipping, VoD Concat, ad-break modifications, supplemental audio tracks and captioning, etc.).

Navigate to the Billing Summary Report page. From the main menu, select Analytics and then select Billing Summary from the left-hand pane.
Select the Controls bar to define this report.
From the Time Range option, define a time period that spans at least a month by selecting either:
- One of the predefined date ranges: Previous month, This month, Month to date, Last n months, Next n months.
- Custom date range. From the Date range option, set a start and end date/time.

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By default, all dates/times are specified in UTC.