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Along with the increase of mobile devices in the field of Internet of things, more and more intelligent applications, such as face recognition and virtual reality, have emerged. These applications typically consume large amounts of computing and energy resources. However, due to the physical size limitations of Internet of things terminals, their computing capacity and power are limited, where users\u2019 needs for application processing delay and power consumption cannot be met. Therefore, the concept of edge cloud computing has been proposed, which enhances the computing capacity of Internet of things terminals by offloading user tasks to edge servers for computation. When there are multiple operators, it is important to understand how users choose an operator to perform computation and how operators can reasonably price the computing capacity to meet their own interests. Therefore, we study the computation pricing and user decision-making problems of Internet of things under multi-user and multi-operator scenarios. The problem is divided into three phases and modeled as a two-level optimization problem. While an operator\u2019s goal is to minimize the loss of his interests, the user\u2019s goal is to minimize the computation cost (energy consumption and price). First, since the lower-level user decision-making problem is an integer linear programming problem, we transform it into an equivalent continuous linear programming problem by relaxation. Second, we transform the bi-level optimization problem into an equivalent single-level optimization problem by substituting the lower problem\u2019s Karush\u2013Kuhn\u2013Tucker conditions into an upper problem. Finally, we use a spatial branch and bound algorithm to solve the problem. 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