Billing Overview

This section introduces how CloudTable is billed along with details about billing modes, billing items, renewals, and accounts in arrears.

• Billing modes

  HBase, ClickHouse, and Doris clusters support two billing modes: pay-per-use and yearly/monthly. Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid mode. You pay upfront for the amount of time you expect to use the service for. Pay-per-use is a postpaid billing mode. You pay for a cluster based on the duration you use it.

  For details about billing modes, see Overview.

  You can also change the billing mode later if it no longer meets your needs. For details, see Billing Mode Change Overview.

• Billed items

  CloudTable billing items consist of cluster specifications, data storage, and public network bandwidth. For details about the billing factors and formulas for each billing item, see Billing Items.

  For real-world billing examples and the billing formula for each item, see Billing Examples.

• Renewals

  CloudTable HBase, ClickHouse, and Doris clusters support two billing modes: the yearly/monthly billing and the pay-per-use billing. In yearly/monthly mode, you make a one-off payment when purchasing resources. In pay-per-use mode, fees are deducted every hour. You can renew your account on the Renewals page. If your subscription is not renewed, your services will keep running, but enter into a grace period. If you do not renew the subscription after the grace period expires, CloudTable clusters will stop running but data is retained during a retention period.

  For more details, see Overview.

• Bills

  You can choose Billing > Bills to check the transactions and bills. For details, see Viewing Bills.

• Arrears
  • Overdue payment does not apply to yearly or monthly subscribed clusters.
  • A pay-per-use cluster is billed by hour. If the account balance is insufficient for you to use the cluster for one more hour, the cluster is in arrears and the cluster enters the grace period. If you do not bring your account balance current before the grace period expires, the cluster will be frozen and enter the retention period. You cannot perform any operations on resources in the retention period. If you do not bring your account balance current before the retention period ends, services in the cluster will be terminated and the data in the system will be permanently deleted. If the clusters are renewed within the retention period, they will be available and billed from the original expiry date. For details, see Arrears.
• Billing termination

  If your no longer need CloudTable, you can unsubscribe from or delete it to stop the billing. For details, see Billing Termination.