Billing Overview

In this document, you will learn about how DB instances are billed, how you can renew subscriptions and manage costs, and what happens if your account goes into arrears.

• Billing Modes

  There are yearly/monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless billing modes. Each one has different advantages and disadvantages.

  • Yearly/Monthly: You pay upfront for the amount of time you expect to use the DB instance for. You will need to make sure you have a top-up account with a sufficient balance or have a valid payment method configured first.
  • Pay-per-use: You can start using the DB instance first and then pay as you go.
  • Serverless: The instance capacities automatically change based on application requirements. You can start using the DB instance first and then pay as you go.

  For details about the preceding billing modes, see Overview.

  You can also change the billing mode later if it no longer meets your needs. For details, see Overview.

• Billing Items

  You will be billed for instance specifications, storage space, backup space, HTAP instances, cross-region backups, EIPs, Monitoring by Seconds, and proxy instances. Currently, proxy instances are free.

  Figure 1 TaurusDB billing items
  

  For details about the billing factors and formulas for each billing item, see TaurusDB Instance Billing Items.

  For more information about the billing samples and the billing for each item, see Billing Examples.

• Renewing Subscriptions

  If you want to continue using a DB instance after it expires, you need to renew the DB instance subscription within the specified period. Otherwise, resources, such as compute and storage, will be automatically released, and data may be lost. You can renew your subscription manually or automatically. For more information about renewal, see Overview.

• Viewing Bills

  You can choose Billing > Bills to check expenditure details of your DB instance. For details, see Bills.

• Arrears

  If there is not a sufficient account balance to pay for your bill, your account will go into arrears. If you want to continue using your cloud services, you will need to top up your account in a timely manner. For details, see Arrears.

• Stopping Billing

  If you no longer need to use your DB instance, you can unsubscribe from or delete it to stop the billing. For details, see Billing Termination.

• Managing Costs

  TaurusDB costs include resource costs and O&M costs. You can manage costs from cost composition, allocation, analysis, and optimization. For details, see Cost Management.