Billing Mode Overview

ServiceStage is billed pay-per-use. For the prices of each billing mode, see ServiceStage Pricing Details.

Pay-per-use is a postpaid mode. You are billed on your actual usage duration. The fees are calculated in seconds and settled by hour. This mode allows you to flexibly adjust resource usage. You do not need to provision resources in advance, or have excessive or insufficient preset resources.

**Table 1** Billing modes
Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
Payment Method	Postpaid. Billed on your actual usage duration.
Billing Period	Billed in seconds and settled by hour.
Billing Item	Edition unit price, number of application instances, and usage duration.
Stopping Billing	Billed on the number of application instances running on ServiceStage. The billing stops after an application instance stops running.
Upgrading Product Edition	Edition upgrade supported.
Application Scenario	Useful when application instances do not need to run 24/7, or only for a short period of time. You can start or stop application instances at any time.