Yearly/Monthly Billing

Application Scenario

In yearly/monthly billing mode, you need to pay for a required duration in advance. This mode is suitable for long-term and relatively fixed service requirements. The yearly/monthly billing mode is recommended for the following scenarios:

• Stable services: enterprises' official websites, online malls, blogs, and others. Yearly/Monthly billing provides higher cost efficiency.
• Long-term projects: scientific research projects, large-scale events, and others. Yearly/Monthly billing facilitates stable supply of resources throughout the project.
• Service peak estimation: e-commerce promotion season, festivals, holidays, and others. Resources insufficiency can be avoided by pre-purchasing resources for peak demands.
• High data security: For services that require high data security, yearly/monthly billing facilitates continuous usage of the resources.

Applicable Billing Items

The following billing items support yearly/monthly billing:

If you plan to purchase the professional edition SecMaster with one ECS quota, as well as the large screen, intelligent analysis (1 GB/day), and security orchestration (10,000 jobs/day), and select the yearly/monthly billing mode (the required duration is one month), at the bottom of the SecMaster purchase page, you can view the fee details, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1 Example price

The price includes:

• Professional: the fees for the professional edition and the ECS quota.
• Large Screen: the fee for the large screen service.
• Intelligent Analysis: the fee for log volume quota of the intelligent analysis.
• Security Orchestration: the fee for the quota of playbooks execution times.

Billing Period

The billing period of yearly/monthly SecMaster is determined by the required duration (UTC+8:00). The billing period starts from the time you activate or renew your subscription (precise to seconds), and ends at 23:59:59 on the expiration date.

For example, if you purchase the SecMaster professional edition with one ECS quota for one month at 15:50:04 on June 30, 2023 (no value-added package is purchased), the billing period is from 15:50:04 on June 30, 2023 to 23:59:59 on July 30, 2023.

Billing Examples

If you purchase the yearly/monthly professional edition SecMaster (ECS quota: 1) and a value-added package, which includes large screen, intelligent analysis quota (1 GB/day), and security orchestration (10,000 jobs/day), at 15:50:04 on June 30, 2023, the billing items include the professional edition, ECS quota, and value-added package. Your subscription is one month and you manually renew the subscription for another month before the subscription expires. The billing details are as follows:

• The first billing period is from 15:50:04 on June 30, 2023 to 23:59:59 on July 30, 2023.
• The second billing period is from 23:59:59 on July 30, 2023 to 23:59:59 on Aug. 30, 2023.

You must prepay for each billing period. Table 2 shows the billing formula.

Figure 2 shows the billing calculation.

The prices shown in the figure are for reference only. The final price is determined by the specific order.

Figure 2 Pricing example of yearly/monthly SecMaster

Impact on Billing After Specification Change

If you change the current specifications of your yearly/monthly SecMaster to meet your service changes, the following pricing rules are used:

Edition or specification upgrade: You need to pay the price difference.

Currently, SecMaster does not support changing the edition in use to a one with lower specifications. If you want to use SecMaster of an earlier edition, unsubscribe from the one you are using first and subscribe to the one you want.

Assume that you purchased a standard yearly/monthly SecMaster (ECS quota: 1) for one month on June 8, 2023 without any discount and you expect to change SecMaster to the professional edition on June 18, 2023. The price of the old configuration is $1.6 USD/month, and that of the new configuration is $24 USD/month. The formula is as follows:

Specification upgrade fee = New specification price × Remaining period - Old specification price × Remaining period

The remaining period in the formula is the remaining days of each calendar month divided by the maximum days of corresponding calendar month. In this example, the remaining period = 12 (Remaining days in June)/30 (Maximum number of days in June) + 8 (Remaining days in July)/31 (Maximum number of days in July) = 0.6581. Price difference = 24 x 0.6581 – 10 x 0.6581 = $9.21 USD

For more information, see Pricing of a Changed Specification.

Impacts of Expiration

Figure 3 describes the status of yearly/monthly SecMaster resources in each phase. After purchasing a resource, it remains operational throughout the billing cycle. This can be referred to as the validity period. If the resource is not renewed after expiration, it enters the grace period and then the retention period.

Figure 3 Yearly/Monthly SecMaster lifecycle

Expiration Reminder

From the 7th day before a yearly/monthly SecMaster edition expires, the system will send an expiration reminder to the creator of the account by email, SMS, and internal message.

Impact After Expiration

If your yearly/monthly SecMaster resources expire and are not renewed, the resources enter the grace periods. During the grace period, you can use the SecMaster service.

If you do not renew your yearly/monthly SecMaster before the grace period ends, it goes into the retention period and its status turns to Frozen. You cannot perform any operations on such instances in the retention period.

If the yearly/monthly SecMaster resources are still not renewed after the grace period ends, the SecMaster resources will be released and data cannot be restored.

For details about renewal, see Overview.