Overview

KooDrive provides yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes.

Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid mode. You need to pay first, and will be billed yearly/monthly for your subscription duration. The longer your subscription, the higher the discount. This mode is useful for long-term, stable services.

Pay-per-use is a postpaid mode. You use the service first, and will be billed afterwards for your usage duration (by the hour). Your resource usage is more flexible because you do not need to provision resources in advance and end up with too much or few. This mode is useful when you want more flexibility over resource usage.

Table 1 compares the two billing modes.

**Table 1** Billing modes
Billing Mode	Yearly/Monthly	Pay-per-use
Payment mode	Prepaid	Postpaid
Billing cycle	Billed for your subscription duration	Billed for your usage duration by the hour
Billing item	Basic edition, storage expansion package, and user expansion package	Storage and number of users
Specifications change	Supported	Not supported
Application scenario	Useful for predictable and long-term usage	Useful when you want more flexibility and control over resource usage