Yearly/Monthly

Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid billing mode. If you expect to use resources for a longer period, you can save money by selecting the yearly/monthly billing mode. In the yearly/monthly billing mode, we offer discounts to you. This document describes the rules of yearly/monthly billing.

Application Scenarios

If you want to ensure resource stability over a certain period of time, yearly/monthly billing is a good choice. The yearly/monthly billing mode is recommended for the following workloads:

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.
Workloads with predictable traffic bursts, for example, e-commerce promotions or festivals. The yearly/monthly billing allows you to purchase resources in advance to avoid resource insufficiency in peak hours.
High data security: For services that require high data security, yearly/monthly billing facilitates continuous usage of the resources.

Billing Items

The following billing items support yearly/monthly billing.

**Table 1** Billing items
Billing Item	Description
Private CA	CAs you create are billed on a yearly/monthly basis.

For details about the pricing, see Price Calculator.

Billing Period

A yearly/monthly private CA is billed for the purchased duration (UTC+08:00). The billing starts when you activated or renewed the subscription (accurate to seconds), and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you created a one-month private CA on July 30, 2023, 15:50:04, the billing usage period is from July 30, 2023, 15:50:04 to August 30, 2023, 23:59:59.

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