This topic describes the billing rules and prices of CloudQuotation for US stocks.
Billing rules
CloudQuotation adopts the pay-as-you-go billing method. After you report your usage of CloudQuotation within a billing cycle, you are charged based on the number of reported users, including both professional and non-professional users.
- Billing cycle
You are charged for CloudQuotation on a monthly basis. The usage duration of less than a month is calculated as a month. Before 18:00 on the last day of each month, you must report the usage of the current month. The actual usage represents the number of professional and non-professional users of CloudQuotation in your enterprise.Note If your reported usage is inconsistent with the actual usage, or you miss the deadline, your services are suspended and you may face auditing that is performed by exchanges.
- Billable items and prices
After you report your usage before 18:00 on the last day of each month, Alibaba Cloud generates a bill before the third day of the following month. You must pay for your usage that occurred during the last month within 7 to 15 days after a bill is generated. If you do not pay the bill within the specified period, Alibaba Cloud suspends CloudQuotation data services that are provided to you.
CloudQuotation provides enterprise editions that charge you based on fixed prices and other editions that charge you based on your usage. The prices of editions that are not enterprise editions vary based on the number of reported professional and non-professional users. The following tables show you the detailed prices of different editions. If you use enterprise editions, the monthly price is fixed, the resource usage is unlimited, and you are allowed to have a maximum of 99,999,999 users.Note Fee to be paid = Basic fee + Number of reported non-professional users who use PCs × Unit price of PC users + Number of reported non-professional users who use apps × Unit price of app users + Number of reported professional users who use PCs × Unit price of PC users + Number of reported professional users who use apps × Unit price of app users
| Edition | Basic fee (monthly recurring charge) | Unit price of PC users (monthly recurring charge) | Unit price of app users (monthly recurring charge) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-professional user | Professional user | Non-professional user | Professional user | ||
| Basic Edition | $10,000.00 | $1.00 | - | $1.00 | - |
| Basic Edition Plus | $22,000.00 | $1.00 | - | $1.00 | - |
| Standard Edition | $12,000.00 | $1.00 | $26.00 | $1.00 | $26.00 |
| Standard Edition Plus | $23,000.00 | $1.00 | $26.00 | $1.00 | $26.00 |
| Advanced Edition | $15,000.00 | $15.00 | $76.00 | $15.00 | $76.00 |
| Advanced Edition Plus | $26,000.00 | $15.00 | $76.00 | $15.00 | $76.00 |
| SEC US Delayed DCC | $3,000.00 | - | |||
| Index USIndex DCC | $3,500.00 | $7,000.00 | |||
| Edition | Basic fee (monthly recurring charge) | Unit price of PC users (monthly recurring charge) | Unit price of app users (monthly recurring charge) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-professional user | Professional user | Non-professional user | Professional user | ||
| Basic Enterprise Edition | $90,00.00 | $44,000.00 | |||
| Basic Enterprise Edition Plus | $13,000.00 | $52,000.00 | |||
| Standard Enterprise Edition | $11,000.00 | $103,000.00 | |||
| Standard Enterprise Edition Plus | $14,000.00 | $111,000.00 | |||
| Advanced Enterprise Edition | $13,000.00 | $503,000.00 | |||
| Advanced Enterprise Edition Plus | $16,000.00 | $511,000.00 | |||
Billing example
For example, assume that you use Standard Edition of CloudQuotation, and you have 20 professional users and 5,000 non-professional users who use the app. After you report the usage, the fee that you need to pay is calculated based on the following equation:
USD 17,520.00 = USD 12,000.00 + 5,000 × USD 1.00 + 20 × USD 26.00
Definition of non-professional users
A non-professional user of CloudQuotation for US stocks refers to an individual who only receives and uses quotation information for personal and non-commercial purposes and who is not a securities professional. A natural person who satisfies the following conditions is regarded as a non-professional user:
- The person is not registered or qualified with securities agencies, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), US state securities agencies, securities exchanges or associations in Hong Kong (China), the Chinese mainland, or outside China, and commodities or futures contract markets or associations outside China.
- The person is not engaged in work as an investment advisor that is defined in Section 202(a) (11) of the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 regardless of whether the person is registered or qualified under that Act, and not licensed or registered with financial regulatory bodies in Hong Kong (China), the Chinese mainland, or outside China.
- The person is not employed by a bank or other organizations exempt from registration under US Federal or state securities laws to perform functions that would require the person to be so registered or qualified if the person were to perform such functions for an organization not so exempt, and not engaged in securities, banking, investment, or financial activities on behalf of regulated financial institutions in Hong Kong (China), the Chinese mainland, or outside China.