From Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use cluster that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to cut costs. Doing so will create an order. After you pay for the order, yearly/monthly billing will be applied immediately.

Suppose a user bought a pay-per-use cluster at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2023 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After the user paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. On the Billing Center > Billing page, three bills are generated as follows:

Pay-per-use expenditures for 15:29:16 to 16:00:00 on April 18, 2023
Pay-per-use expenditures for 16:00:00 to 16:30:30 April 18, 2023
A single, yearly/monthly expenditure generated April 18, 2023, 16:30:30

Prerequisites

The billing mode of the target CSS cluster is pay-per-use.
The cluster status is Available.

Procedure

Log in to the CSS management console.
In the navigation pane on the left, expand Clusters. Select a cluster type based on the target cluster. The cluster list is displayed.
Select the target cluster in the cluster list and choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.

If Switch to Yearly/Monthly is grayed out, you cannot change the billing mode in the current region.
On the displayed page, select the subscription duration, determine whether to enable auto-renewal, confirm the fee, and click Pay.
Select a payment method and make your payment. Once the order is paid, the billing mode of the instance becomes yearly/monthly.
Return to the cluster list and check whether the billing mode of the target cluster is yearly/monthly.