How Is UCS Billed?

There are yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes to meet your requirements.

Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid billing mode. You pay in advance for a subscription term, and in exchange, you get a discounted rate. The longer the subscription term, the bigger the discount. Yearly/Monthly billing is a good option for long-term, stable clusters.
Pay-per-use is a postpaid billing. You pay as you go and just pay for what you use. UCS resource usage is calculated by the second but billed every hour. This mode allows you to flexibly adjust resource usage. You neither need to prepare for resources in advance, nor end up with excessive or insufficient preset resources. Pay-per-use billing is a good option for small-scale clusters.

You will be billed for clusters managed by UCS. For details, see Table 1.

**Table 1** Billed items
Billed Item	Description	Billing Mode	Formula
Clusters managed by UCS	The UCS price depends on the cluster type (including Huawei Cloud clusters, on-premises clusters, attached clusters, multi-cloud clusters, and partner cloud clusters), number of vCPUs of a cluster, and required duration. The UCS price does not include the price of any related resources (such as compute nodes and other network services).	Yearly/Monthly or pay-per-use	Cluster scale (vCPUs) x Cluster unit price x Required duration For details, see UCS Pricing Details.

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