Updated on 2025-08-28 GMT+08:00

Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

Scenarios

  • Pay-per-use: a postpaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed by usage duration. You can provision or delete such an ECS at any time.
  • Yearly/Monthly: a prepaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed based on the purchased duration. This mode is more cost-effective than the pay-per-use mode and is suitable for predictable usage.

If you need to use an ECS for a long time, you can change its billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to reduce costs by referring to the content in this section.

  • For certain associated resources (such as EVS disks and EIPs), their billing modes can be changed together with the ECS to yearly/monthly.
  • For associated resources whose billing modes cannot be changed together with the ECS to yearly/monthly, they will retain their original billing modes. For details, see Billing Mode Change Rules for Associated Resources.
  • ECSs created using ISO images do not support the billing mode change from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

Billing Mode Change Rules for Associated Resources

Resources associated with ECSs include disks and EIPs. Table 1 and Table 2 show the billing mode change rules for these associated resources.

Table 1 Billing mode change rules for disks attached to an ECS

Disk Type

Billing Mode

Shared

Changed Together with ECS to Yearly/Monthly

Measure

Local disks

N/A

No

N/A

None

DSS/DESS disks

Yearly/Monthly (the same as the storage pool billing mode)

No

N/A

None

EVS disks

Pay-per-use

No

Yes (not supported for extreme SSD V2 disks)

None

EVS disks

Pay-per-use

Yes

No

On the EVS console, change the billing mode of EVS disks from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

For details, see Billing for Disks.

EVS disks

Yearly/Monthly

No

No

The billing mode is already yearly/monthly. No actions are required.

EVS disks

Yearly/Monthly

Yes

No

The billing mode is already yearly/monthly. No actions are required.

Table 2 Billing mode change rules for EIPs bound to an ECS

Resource

Billing Mode

Billed By

Bandwidth Type

Changed Together with ECS to Yearly/Monthly

Measure

EIP

Pay-per-use

Bandwidth

Dedicated

Yes

None

EIP

Pay-per-use

Traffic

Dedicated

No

On the EIP console page, change the billing mode from billing by traffic (pay-per-use) to billing by bandwidth (pay-per-use) first and then to yearly/monthly.

For details, see Changing EIP Billing Mode.

EIP

Pay-per-use

Bandwidth

Shared

No

On the EIP console, change the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

For details, see Changing EIP Billing Mode.

EIP

Yearly/Monthly

Bandwidth

Dedicated or shared

No

The billing mode is already yearly/monthly. No actions are required.

Prerequisites

  • The selected ECS is billed on a pay-per-use basis.
  • The target ECS must be in Running or Stopped state.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.
  3. Click . Under Compute, choose Elastic Cloud Server.
  4. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
  5. Choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.

    You can batch change the billing modes of multiple ECSs. To do so, perform the following operations:

    1. Select the target ECSs.
    2. Choose More > Manage Billing > Change to Yearly/Monthly above the ECS list.
  6. Confirm the ECS details, specify the required duration, and pay for the order.