Overview
MRS provides two billing modes: yearly/monthly and pay-per-use to meet your requirements in different scenarios.
- Yearly/monthly: You pay for the cluster by year or month, in advance. The minimum usage duration is one month and the maximum usage duration is one year.
- Pay-per-use: Nodes are charged by actual duration of use, with a billing usage period of one hour.
Table 1 lists the differences between the billing modes.
| Billing Mode | Yearly/Monthly | Pay-per-Use | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payment | Prepayment Billed by the subscription term you purchase | Postpayment Billed by usage duration of MRS clusters | - |
| Billing usage period | You are charged based on the usage duration. The minimum duration is one month and the maximum duration is one year. | Billed by second and settled by hour | - |
| Billing items | MRS management fee and IaaS infrastructure resource fee (ECSs and EVSs) | MRS management fee and IaaS infrastructure resource fee (ECSs and EVSs) | |
| Billing mode change | - | Can be changed to yearly/monthly. | Changing the Billing Mode from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly |
| Specification change | Specifications can be changed, which affects the pricing. MRS supports the following changes:
| Specifications can be changed, which affects the pricing. MRS supports the following changes:
| - |
| Application scenario | This mode is cost-effective and suitable when the duration of resource usage is predictable. The yearly/monthly mode is recommended for long-term users. | This mode is ideal when you want more flexibility and control on compute resource usage. | - |
