Billing Mode Overview

Pay-per-use is postpaid. You use the service and then pay as billed for your usage. Billing starts only after you create an environment. Fees are calculated in minutes and billed by the hour. It allows you to flexibly adjust resource usage. You do not need to provision resources in advance, or have excessive or insufficient resources preset.

**Table 1** Billing mode
Billing Mode	Pay-per-use (before April 28, 2025, 00:00 GMT+08:00)	Pay-per-use (after April 28, 2025, 00:00 GMT+08:00)
Payment mode	Postpaid. Billed by your usage duration.	Postpaid. Billing starts only after you create an environment. There are general and premium unit prices of vCPU and memory specifications. The traffic is just billed based on your public network traffic usage.
Billing cycle	Calculated in minutes and billed by the hour.	Calculated in minutes and billed by the hour.
Billing item	vCPUs, memory, and traffic.	vCPUs, memory, and traffic.
Application scenario	Useful for fluctuating demands. This mode is enabled by default and billing starts when you begin to use the service.	Useful for fluctuating demands. This mode is enabled by default and billing starts when you begin to use the service.