Billing Overview

In this document, you will learn about how instances are billed, how you can renew subscriptions and manage costs, and what happens if your account goes into arrears.

• Billing Modes

  There are yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes. Each one has different advantages and disadvantages.

  • Yearly/Monthly: You pay upfront for the amount of time you expect to use the instance for. 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: You can start using the GeminiDB instance first and then pay as you go.

  For details about the two billing modes, see Overview.

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

• Billing Items

  You will be billed for instance specifications, storage space, backup space, and EIP bandwidths. For details about the billing factors and formulas for each billed item, see Billing Items.

  For more information about billing samples and the billing for each item, see Billing Examples.

• Renewing Subscriptions

  If you want to continue using an instance after it expires, you need to renew the instance subscription within the specified period. Otherwise, resources, such as compute and storage, will be automatically released, and data may be lost.

  You can renew your subscription manually or automatically. For details, see Overview.

• Viewing Bills

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

• Arrears

  If there is not a sufficient account balance to pay for your bill and there is no other payment method configured, your account will go into arrears. If you want to continue using your cloud services, you will need to top up your account in a timely manner. For details, see Arrears.

• Stopping Billing

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

• Managing Costs

  GeminiDB Cassandra costs include resource costs and O&M costs. You can allocate, analyze, and optimize GeminiDB costs to save more money. For details, see Cost Management.