Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

After you have purchased a pay-per-use load balancer, if you need to use the load balancer for a long time, you can change the billing mode to yearly/monthly. Doing so will create an order. After you pay for the order, yearly/monthly billing will be applied immediately.

Changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly does not interrupt services.

Suppose you bought a pay-per-use load balancer at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2025 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After you paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. On the Billing & Costs > Bills page, three billing records were generated for:

• Pay-per-use expenditures for the period from 15:29:16 to 16:00:00 on April 18, 2025
• Pay-per-use expenditures for the period from 16:00:00 to 16:30:30 on April 18, 2025
• Yearly/monthly expenditure for the period from April 18, 2025, 16:30:30

Procedure

1. Go to the load balancer list page.
2. On the load balancer list page, locate the target load balancer, and choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.
3. Click Change.
4. On the Change Subscription page, configure the renewal duration and click Pay.
   

   If Auto-renew is selected, the load balancer will be automatically renewed as follows:

   • Monthly subscription: The load balancers will be renewed each month.
   • Yearly subscription: The load balancers will be renewed each year.
5. Confirm the order, select a payment method, and click Confirm.

When you change the billing mode of a dedicated load balancer from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, you can choose to change the billing mode of its EIP from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.