From Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use cluster that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to cut costs. Doing so will create an order. After you pay for the order, yearly/monthly billing will be applied immediately.

Suppose a user bought a pay-per-use cluster at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2023 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After the user paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. On the Billing Center > Billing page, three bills are generated as follows:

Pay-per-use expenditures for 15:29:16 to 16:00:00 on April 18, 2023
Pay-per-use expenditures for 16:00:00 to 16:30:30 April 18, 2023
A single, yearly/monthly expenditure generated April 18, 2023, 16:30:30

If public access or Kibana public access is enabled for a yearly/monthly cluster, and the bandwidth is changed, you will be billed based on the new bandwidth. For details, see Product Pricing Details.

Procedure

Log in to the CSS management console.
On the Clusters page, select a cluster.
Click More > Switch to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.

If Switch to Yearly/Monthly is grayed out, you cannot change the billing mode in the current region.
On the Switch to Yearly/Monthly page, set subscription period and enable auto-renewal as required.
Click Pay Now. Confirm order details and click Pay.

Return to the Clusters page and check the current billing mode in the Billing Mode column.