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Updated on 2025-08-05 GMT+08:00

What Are the Differences Between Yearly/Monthly and Pay-per-Use Billing?

Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid mode. If your future usage is predictable, this billing mode is generally less expensive than pay-per-use. Longer subscriptions offer larger discounts.

Pay-per-use is a postpaid mode. You are billed for your immediate needs based on how long you have actually used a product, so you can start or stop an instance at any time. Pay-per-use instances are priced by the hour, but if an instance is used for less than one hour, you will be billed based on the actual duration.