Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use ECS that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to reduce costs. Doing so will create an order. After you pay for the order, yearly/monthly billing will be applied immediately.

Suppose a user bought a pay-per-use ECS at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2023 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After the user paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. On the Billing Center > Billing page, three line items were generated, one for each of the hours the ECS was used on a pay-per-use basis, and one for the yearly/monthly subscription:

Pay-per-use expenditures for 15:29:16 to 16:00:00 on April 18, 2023
Pay-per-use expenditures for 16:00:00 to 16:30:30 April 18, 2023
A single, yearly/monthly expenditure generated April 18, 2023, 16:30:30

Constraints

Resource such as EVS disks and the EIP that are used by an ECS may not support the change with this ECS. For details about their billing mode change rules and handling methods, see Table 1 and Table 2.

**Table 1** EVS disk billing mode change rules
Disk Type	Billing Mode	Shared Disk	Change to Yearly/Monthly Billing with ECS	Handling Measure
Local disk	N/A	No	N/A	None
DSS or DESS disk	Yearly/Monthly (storage pool's billing mode)	No	N/A	None
EVS disk	Pay-per-use	No	Supported (excluding Extreme SSD V2 disks)	None
EVS disk	Pay-per-use	Yes	Not supported	Change the disk to yearly/monthly billing on the EVS console. For details, see Billing for Disks.
EVS disk	Yearly/Monthly	No	Not supported	The disk is already a yearly/monthly disk.
EVS disk	Yearly/Monthly	Yes	Not supported	The disk is already a yearly/monthly disk.

**Table 2** EIP billing mode change rules
Resource	Billing Mode	Billing By	Bandwidth Type	Change to Yearly/Monthly Billing with ECS	Handling Measure
EIP	Pay-per-use	Bandwidth	Dedicated	Supported	None
EIP	Pay-per-use	Traffic	Dedicated	Not supported	On the EIP console, change the EIP from being billed by traffic to being billed by bandwidth and then change it to the yearly/monthly billing. For details, see Changing EIP Billing Mode.
EIP	Pay-per-use	Bandwidth	Shared	Not supported	Change the EIP to yearly/monthly billing on the EIP console. For details, see Changing EIP Billing Mode.
EIP	Yearly/Monthly	Bandwidth	Dedicated or shared	Not supported	The EIP is already a yearly/monthly EIP.

Prerequisites

The ECS billing mode is pay-per-use.
The ECS status is Running or Stopped.

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
Click and choose Compute > Elastic Cloud Server.
In the ECS list, locate the target ECS.

In the Operation column, choose More > Change Billing Mode.
The billing mode of multiple ECSs can be changed in batches. The procedure is as follows:
1. Select the target ECSs.
2. On the top of the ECS list, choose More > Change Billing Mode.
On the Change Billing Mode page, confirm the information and click Yes.

Figure 1 Change Billing Mode
Select the usage duration, determine whether to enable auto-renewal, confirm the expected expiration date and price, and click Pay.

Figure 2 Change Subscription
Select a payment method and make your payment. Once the order is paid, yearly/monthly billing is applied.