Yearly/Monthly Billing

Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid billing mode. This section describes the billing rules for yearly/monthly DeH resources.

Billing Method

You are billed by the subscription term you purchase.

Billed Usage Period

A yearly/monthly DeH is billed for the purchased duration. The billing starts from when you activated or renewed the subscription, and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you purchased a one-month DeH on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, the billed usage period is from March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

Billing Examples

Suppose you purchased a one-month DeH on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. The following usage periods will be billed:

March 8, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 8, 2023, 23:59:59
April 8, 2023, 23:59:59 to May 8, 2023, 23:59:59

You need to pay for each billing cycle first. Resources associated with ECSs created on the DeH are billed individually. The billing formula is shown in Table 1.

**Table 1** Billing formulas
Resource	Formula	Unit Price
DeH	Unit price of the DeH flavor x Required duration	See the prices in DeH Pricing Details.

Price Change After Specification Change

If the specifications of an ECS no longer meet your needs, you can change the ECS specifications, such as flavor, vCPUs, and memory, on the DeH console. For details, see Modifying Specifications of ECSs on DeHs.

No fees will be incurred for the change of ECS specifications, but the resources associated with the ECS, such as images, EIPs, EVS disks, and CBR, will still be billed on a pay-per-use basis.

The specifications of a DeH cannot be changed.

Impact of Expiration

Figure 1 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly DeH can go through throughout its lifecycle. After a DeH is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If the DeH is not renewed after it expires, before being deleted, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 1 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly DeH

Expiration Reminder

The system will send you a reminder (by email, SMS, or in-app message) 7 days before a yearly/monthly DeH expires to remind you to renew the subscription.

Impact of Expiration

If your yearly/monthly DeH is not renewed after it expires, it changes to the Expired state and enters a grace period. During the grace period, you can access the DeH but cannot:

Change the OS.
Expand the EVS disk capacity.
Change the bandwidth size.
Expand CBR vault capacity.

If the DeH is not renewed after the grace period ends, it changes to the Frozen state and it enters a retention period. You cannot perform any operations on the DeH while it is in the retention period.

If the DeH is not renewed by the time the retention period ends, the DeH, ECSs on it, and the resources associated with the ECSs, such as EIPs, EVS disks, and CBR, will be released and the data cannot be restored.