How Is DSC Billed?

If you use DSC through the console, you will be billed on a yearly/monthly basis, which is prepaid. If you use DSC by APIs, including data masking and watermark APIs, you pay for what you used. DSC provides the standard and professional editions, and the database and OBS expansion packages.

Buy a required DSC edition and additional expansion packages based on your site requirements. You will be charged based on the selected billing items.

Billing Item

**Table 1** Billing items
Billing Mode	Billing Item	Description
Yearly/Monthly	(Mandatory) Edition specifications	Billed based on the specifications of purchased DSC edition (standard or professional).
	(Optional) Database expansion package	Billed based on the number of purchased packages.
	(Optional) OBS expansion package	Billed based on the number of purchased packages.
	Required duration	Billed on a yearly or monthly basis.
Pay-Per-Use	APIs (data masking and watermarking)	APIs are included only in the professional edition. By default, the professional edition offers one million API calls each month. Note that the unused API calls for the previous month will become invalid. For pricing about extra API calls, see Product Pricing Details.