DataWorks:Purchase guide

Billing system of DataWorks

Billing system

The following figure shows the billing system of DataWorks.

The billing system of DataWorks consists of billing on software and billing on resources.

• Required software and resources: DataWorks Basic Edition, pay-as-you-go serverless resource groups, and other pay-as-you-go billable items are required. You can activate and use DataWorks Basic Edition free of charge. You are charged for all pay-as-you-go billable items based on their own unit prices and usage.

• Optional software and resources: You can activate DataWorks of an advanced edition such as Standard Edition on top of Basic Edition. Advanced editions provide more features than Basic Edition. You can also purchase other advanced features, such as Data Modeling, and subscription serverless resource groups based on your business requirements. All the optional software and resources are charged based on the subscription billing method. Before you purchase the software and resources, you must plan a subscription duration and specifications based on your business requirements and pay the related fees.

  Note

  After the advanced DataWorks edition and serverless resource groups that you purchase expire, the system automatically provides pay-as-you-go software and resources to help you maintain the basic services and capabilities of DataWorks.

• Billing rules of other Alibaba Cloud services used in DataWorks: If you use big data compute engines in DataWorks, you are charged storage and computing fees based on the billing rules of the related Alibaba Cloud services. These fees are not included in your DataWorks bill. For example, if you use compute engines and storage services such as MaxCompute, Hologres, and E-MapReduce (EMR) in DataWorks, you are charged fees for the features provided by the services based on the billing rules of the services.

Scenario 1: Recommended configurations for new users

• Recommended configurations

  

• Recommendation reasons

  • Software: We recommend that you activate DataWorks Professional Edition. This edition provides services such as DataStudio, Operation Center, Data Map, and Data Quality and can meet your requirements for standard data warehouse building.

  • Resources: We recommend that you purchase a pay-as-you-go serverless resource group. The first time you purchase an edition of DataWorks, the system automatically purchases a serverless resource group that is charged based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. You cannot cancel the purchase operation. In addition, the first time you purchase an edition of DataWorks, the system automatically creates a default virtual private cloud (VPC) and a default vSwitch and associates the resource group with the VPC and vSwitch. For more information, see Activate DataWorks.

Scenario 2: Recommended upgrade configurations for existing users

• Recommended configurations

  

• Recommendation reasons

  • Software: We recommend that you activate DataWorks Enterprise Edition. This edition provides complete data development and governance features and various security compliance capabilities, and supports custom development of API operations.

  • Resources: You can purchase subscription or pay-as-you-go serverless resource groups. You can use both types of resource groups to run various DataWorks tasks, such as data synchronization tasks and data computing tasks. However, the two types of resource groups provide different features. You can purchase a resource group based on your business requirements. For more information, see Comparison between the different billing methods of serverless resource groups.

Scenario 3: Recommended configurations for data mid-end building and standard data warehouse building

• Recommended configurations

  

• Recommendation reasons

  • Software

    • Standard features: We recommend that you activate DataWorks Enterprise Edition. This edition provides complete data development and governance features and various security compliance capabilities, and supports custom development of API operations.

    • Advanced features: We recommend that you activate the Data Modeling service. This service provides features that can be used to implement the methodology for building a data mid-end and can be used to build standard data warehouses.

      Note

      You can select specifications for the Data Modeling service based on your business requirements. For information about the billing of Data Modeling, see Billing standards of Data Modeling. To activate the Data Modeling service, visit the buy page.

  • Resources: You can purchase subscription or pay-as-you-go serverless resource groups. You can use both types of resource groups to run various DataWorks tasks, such as data synchronization tasks and data computing tasks. However, the two types of resource groups provide different features. You can purchase a resource group based on your business requirements. For more information, see Comparison between the different billing methods of serverless resource groups.

References

• For more information about how to activate DataWorks, see Activate DataWorks.

• For more information about serverless resource groups, see Create and use a serverless resource group.

• For more information about how to change from an old-version resource group to a serverless resource group for an existing task, see Change from an old-version resource group to a serverless resource group.