Overview

MRS provides two billing modes: yearly/monthly and pay-per-use to meet your requirements in different scenarios.

Yearly/monthly: You pay for the cluster by year or month, in advance. The minimum usage duration is one month and the maximum usage duration is one year.
Pay-per-use: Nodes are charged by actual duration of use, with a billing usage period of one hour.

Table 1 lists the differences between the billing modes.

**Table 1** Billing modes
Billing Mode	Yearly/Monthly	Pay-per-Use	Reference
Payment	Prepayment Billed by the subscription term you purchase	Postpayment Billed by usage duration of MRS clusters	-
Billing usage period	You are charged based on the usage duration. The minimum duration is one month and the maximum duration is one year.	Billed by second and settled by hour	-
Billing items	MRS management fee and IaaS infrastructure resource fee (ECSs and EVSs)	MRS management fee and IaaS infrastructure resource fee (ECSs and EVSs)	Billing Items
Billing mode change	-	Can be changed to yearly/monthly.	Changing the Billing Mode from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
Specification change	Specifications can be changed, which affects the pricing. MRS supports the following changes: Node specifications Node quantity	Specifications can be changed, which affects the pricing. MRS supports the following changes: Node specifications Node quantity	-
Application scenario	This mode is cost-effective and suitable when the duration of resource usage is predictable. The yearly/monthly mode is recommended for long-term users.	This mode is ideal when you want more flexibility and control on compute resource usage.	-