Billing Mode

DataArtsFabric offers two billing modes: yearly/monthly and pay-per-use.

Yearly/Monthly: This is a prepaid billing mode where you are charged based on the duration of your resource purchase. Longer purchase periods typically receive greater discounts. This mode is ideal for scenarios with stable compute resource demand throughout the purchase duration.
Pay-per-use: With pay-per-use, you are billed after consuming resources, based on the actual usage duration of compute resources. Billing is precise to the second and settled hourly. This mode provides flexible resource usage aligned with service requirements, eliminating the need for pre-provisioning and preventing resource over- or under-allocation. It's best suited for scenarios where resource requirements fluctuate, ensuring you only pay for what you use.

For details about the billing differences, see Table 1.

**Table 1** DataArtsFabric billing modes
Billing Mode	Payment Method	Billing Cycle	Applicable Billing Item
Yearly/Monthly	Prepaid. Billed by the purchase period specified in your order.	Billed by the purchase period specified in the order	Ray resources
Pay-per-use	Postpaid. Billed by usage duration.	Billed based on the actual usage duration of resources. A bill is generated every hour.	Ray resources, MU hours, SQL warm-up resources, and SQL compute unit hours