Help Center/ Billing Center/ User Guide/ Orders/ Renewal Management/ Changing the Billing Mode/ Overview
Updated on 2024-03-05 GMT+08:00
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Overview

If the current billing mode of resources does not meet service requirements, you can change the billing mode to a more appropriate one.

Pay-per-use: Pay only for the actual resource usage.

Yearly/Monthly: Subscribe to resources for 1 month, 1 year, multiple months, or multiple years. After the subscriptions are successful, resources are allocated to customers. If customers do not renew these resources before they expire, the resources will be released.

Change

From Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use Upon Expiration

From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use Immediately

Scenario

Your resource usage becomes stable and will be stable for a long time. You want to spend less money on the resource usage.

After a monthly/monthly resource expires, you want to change the billing mode to pay-per-use to meet requirements on the flexible resource usage.

Before a monthly/monthly resource expires, you want to change the billing mode to pay-per-use immediately to meet requirements on the flexible resource usage.

When to Change
  1. Immediately changed.
  2. After the change takes effect, the resources are billed by subscription term.
  1. Changed after the resources expire.
  2. After the change takes effect, the resources are billed by usage.
  1. Immediately changed.
  2. After the change takes effect, the resources are billed by usage.
  • If you change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use upon expiration, it will not take effect immediately. You can cancel the change before the resource expires. For details, see Restoring to Manual Renewal.
  • If you change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use immediately, it cannot be canceled.