Pay-per-Use

Pay-per-use is a billing mode in which you pay after using the service. This mode is recommended if you do not need any prepayment or long-term commitment. This section describes the billing rules for pay-per-use BCS instances.

Application Scenarios

Pay-per-use billing is good for short-term, bursty, or unpredictable workloads that cannot tolerate any interruptions, such as applications for e-commerce flash sales, temporary testing, and scientific computing.

Billing Items

The fee is calculated based on the BCS configurations and underlying resource configurations.

**Table 1** Billing items
Billing Item	Description
Configuration fee	Fee of the BCS settings, including the edition, type, number of nodes (peers), ECS specifications, and bandwidth
Underlying resource fee	Fee of the resources in SFS, LTS, OBS, and CBR

Billing Cycle

The bill for each day's fees is generated on the next day, based on the hourly usage, and sent to you between 13:00 and 22:00 (UTC+8). The fees are subject to the actual usage.

Impact of Arrears

Arrears alert

The system will deduct fees for pay-per-use resources at the end of each billing cycle. You will be notified by email, SMS, or internal messages when your account is in arrears.

Impact of arrears

Enhanced Hyperledger Fabric instances will be unavailable if your account is in arrears.