Billing

Billing Modes

Workspace Application Streaming provides yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes to meet your requirements.

Yearly/Monthly is prepaid. You pay upfront for the amount of time you expect to use Workspace Application Streaming. You will need to make sure you have a top-up account with a sufficient balance or have a valid payment method configured first.

Pay-per-use is postpaid. You use Workspace Application Streaming and then pay as billed for your usage duration.

Billing Items

Pay-per-use instances are not billed when they are stopped. However, the newly purchased sessions will be billed. The billing rules after the instances are stopped are as follows:

• Basic resources (vCPUs, memory, and images) no longer generate costs. Associated resources such as EVS disks, EIPs, and bandwidth will continue to be billed.

A pay-per-use APS can be stopped without being billed. That is, when the APS is stopped but retained, compute resources (vCPUs and memory) are automatically reclaimed. In this case, only storage resources (system disks) will be billed. When you restart the APS, you will apply for vCPUs and memory again. If the resources are insufficient, the startup may fail. Wait several minutes and then restart the APS.

• You are billed based on the number of sessions added to your cloud servers.
• Public/Private NAT gateways are billed based on the public NAT gateway type and service duration. For pricing details, see NAT Gateway Price Calculator.
• Windows images are third-party images provided in the Marketplace. A portal is provided for you to select public images. See the price provided by the image provider.
• You will be billed for the storage space of private images. After you delete a created image, you will not be billed anymore. For more information, see IMS Billing.
• Network-attached storage (NAS) is billed based on the selected SFS 3.0 Capacity-Oriented file system. See SFS Billing.
• Files in the application repository are billed when they are stored in OBS. See OBS Billing.

Renewal

When a billing cycle expires, you can continue using the service through renewal. Alternatively, you can discontinue your service. For details, see Renewal Management.

Expiration and Overdue Payment

If your account is in arrears, you can view the arrears details in the Billing Center. To prevent your resources from being stopped or released, top up your account in time. For details, see Topping Up an Account or Making Repayments.