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Cost and Billing

Cost and Billing

FortiWeb Cloud offers 14-day free trial on public cloud platforms. After the free trial, you can subscribe to FortiWeb Cloud or purchase service contracts from Fortinet to continue using it.

Please note that if you have subscribed to FortiWeb Cloud on public cloud platforms and also imported a FortiWeb Cloud license in your account, it's recommended to unsubscribe from FortiWeb Cloud, otherwise you will be charged simultaneously through both channels.

If you purchase FortiWeb Cloud service from Fortinet sales team, you will be charged for the Bandwidth contract and Applications contract, which respectively control how many applications you can add in your account and the maximum bandwidth.

For those with or interested in a FortiFlex contract, use our FortiFlex Calculator to estimate service costs conveniently.

When subscribing through AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, charges are based on data sent to your app users with a pay-as-you-go model. There's no limit on the number of apps in your account. You're charged $0.03 per hour per web app and $0.4 per GB of traffic. Hourly charges start when you onboard an app onto FortiWeb Cloud, regardless of DNS status. Traffic charges begin when data actively flows through FortiWeb Cloud to your app. Regardless of the third-party platform you use to subscribe, you can use FortiWeb Cloud to protect applications located on any other cloud platform or in your own network. The subscription channel only determines the billing places for your FortiWeb Cloud usage.

Please note, the estimated cost shown in your FortiWeb Cloud account may not be accurate, as it is estimated by FortiWeb Cloud based on the amount of data transferred in your account.

The final cost is billed in your AWS/Azure/Google Cloud account, depending on where you subscribe.

FortiWeb Cloud measures each account using a burstable model for overall account bandwidth calculation. The model is based on calculating the 95th percentile of bandwidth usage of clean traffic and is also common with other CDNs and Cloud solutions.

The 95th percentile bandwidth is calculated in the following way:

  • Traffic for the entire month is measured in 5 minute buckets.
  • At the end of the month, the 5% of buckets with the most Mbps are dropped, and the highest Mbps rate of the remaining buckets represents the 95th percentile value for the account.

At the beginning of every month, the 95th percentile bandwidth shown in FortiWeb Cloud might be very low, or even shown as 0. This is because there aren't enough 5-minute buckets collected to calculate a valid value. At the end of the month with more buckets generated, the value becomes more accurate.
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Cost and Billing

FortiWeb Cloud offers 14-day free trial on public cloud platforms. After the free trial, you can subscribe to FortiWeb Cloud or purchase service contracts from Fortinet to continue using it.

Please note that if you have subscribed to FortiWeb Cloud on public cloud platforms and also imported a FortiWeb Cloud license in your account, it's recommended to unsubscribe from FortiWeb Cloud, otherwise you will be charged simultaneously through both channels.

If you purchase FortiWeb Cloud service from Fortinet sales team, you will be charged for the Bandwidth contract and Applications contract, which respectively control how many applications you can add in your account and the maximum bandwidth.

For those with or interested in a FortiFlex contract, use our FortiFlex Calculator to estimate service costs conveniently.

When subscribing through AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, charges are based on data sent to your app users with a pay-as-you-go model. There's no limit on the number of apps in your account. You're charged $0.03 per hour per web app and $0.4 per GB of traffic. Hourly charges start when you onboard an app onto FortiWeb Cloud, regardless of DNS status. Traffic charges begin when data actively flows through FortiWeb Cloud to your app. Regardless of the third-party platform you use to subscribe, you can use FortiWeb Cloud to protect applications located on any other cloud platform or in your own network. The subscription channel only determines the billing places for your FortiWeb Cloud usage.

Please note, the estimated cost shown in your FortiWeb Cloud account may not be accurate, as it is estimated by FortiWeb Cloud based on the amount of data transferred in your account.

The final cost is billed in your AWS/Azure/Google Cloud account, depending on where you subscribe.

FortiWeb Cloud measures each account using a burstable model for overall account bandwidth calculation. The model is based on calculating the 95th percentile of bandwidth usage of clean traffic and is also common with other CDNs and Cloud solutions.

The 95th percentile bandwidth is calculated in the following way:

  • Traffic for the entire month is measured in 5 minute buckets.
  • At the end of the month, the 5% of buckets with the most Mbps are dropped, and the highest Mbps rate of the remaining buckets represents the 95th percentile value for the account.

At the beginning of every month, the 95th percentile bandwidth shown in FortiWeb Cloud might be very low, or even shown as 0. This is because there aren't enough 5-minute buckets collected to calculate a valid value. At the end of the month with more buckets generated, the value becomes more accurate.
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