From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

Updated on 2025-03-03 GMT+08:00

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After purchasing a yearly/monthly IoTDA instance, you can change the billing mode to pay-per-use to reclaim some costs and use the instance more flexibly.

NOTE:

You can change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use in either of the following ways:

Change to pay-per-use immediately: The pay-per-use billing mode takes effect immediately.
Change to pay-per-use upon expiration: The pay-per-use billing mode takes effect only after the yearly/monthly subscription has expired.

Constraints

Currently, only standard edition instances support the change from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.
You have passed real-name authentication.
You can change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use only for in-use IoTDA instances on the renewal page.
Yearly/Monthly IoTDA instances that are in the grace period or retention period cannot be changed to pay-per-use.

Prerequisites

Change to pay-per-use immediately: This operation can be performed only on the IoTDA console. Change to pay-per-use upon expiration: This operation can be performed only on the renewal page of Billing Center.

Procedure for Changing to Pay-per-Use Immediately

Log in to the console.
In the navigation pane, click and choose IoT > IoT Device Access.
Choose IoTDA Instances and confirm the standard edition instance to be changed to pay-per-use.
Click on the right of the instance and select Change to Pay-per-Use.

Figure 1 IoTDA instance - Changing to pay-per-use billing
Click OK. Then you are switched to Billing Center.

Figure 2 IoTDA instance - Confirming to change to pay-per-use billing

Figure 3 Changing from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use billing
Confirm the refund information, select I understand a handling fee will be charged for this unsubscription, and click the button to complete the change.

Procedure for Changing to Pay-per-Use upon Expiration

Log in to the console.
On the top menu bar, choose Billing > Renewal.
Search for the IoTDA instance to be changed to pay-per-use based on the instance ID or name.
Click More > Change Billing Upon Expiration in the Operation column.

Figure 4 Changing to pay-per-use in billing center
Confirm the change details and click Change to Pay-per-Use.

Figure 5 Changing the billing mode to pay-per-use billing upon expiration