Billing Items

Updated on 2025-01-16 GMT+08:00

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Description

Fees of DMS for Kafka consist of instance fees and storage space fees. For details, see Table 1.

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**Table 1** Billing items of DMS for Kafka
Billing Item	Description	Billing Mode	Billing Formula
Instance	Billing factors: broker specifications and quantity Enabling Smart Connect incurs additional broker fees. NOTE: To check this billing item, see dms instance platinume in the bill, as shown in Figure 1.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	Instance specification unit price x Purchase duration For the instance specification unit price, see Instance Price on the Product Pricing Details page.
Storage space	Billing factors: EVS disk type and capacity NOTE: To check this billing item, see dms physical storage in the bill, as shown in Figure 1.	Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use	EVS disk unit price x Purchase duration For the EVS unit price, see Storage Price on the Product Pricing Details page.

Figure 1 Bill

Billing Samples

Take the yearly/monthly mode as an example. Assume that you purchased a yearly/monthly Kafka instance (kafka.2u4g.cluster × 3, ultra-high I/O 300 GB total storage space) in EU-Dublin on Mar 08, 2023, 15:50:04. The billing items include the instance (broker flavor and quantity) and storage space (ultra-high I/O 300 GB). Assume the subscription is for one month, and will be manually renewed for one month before it expires:

The first billing period: Mar 08, 2023, 15:50:04–Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59
The second billing period: Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59–May 08, 2023, 23:59:59

Figure 2 shows the billing calculation. The prices in the following two pictures are for reference only. Actual prices are subject to Product Pricing Details.

Figure 2 Sample fees calculation of a yearly/monthly Kafka instance