A resource plan is a type of subscription billing method that offers certain discounts. You can purchase resource plans based on your business requirements. After you activate Network Analysis and Monitoring and purchase resource plans of detection requests, the quotas in the resource plans are used to offset fees first. After the quotas in the resource plans are used up, you are charged based on the pay-as-you-go billing method.
Before you can purchase resource plans, you must activate Network Analysis and Monitoring.
Purchase resource plans
To save costs, we recommend that you purchase resource plans based on your business requirements. The following table describes the resource plan of Network Analysis and Monitoring.
Resource plan name | Buy page | Resource plan type | Billing example |
Resource plan of detection requests | Site monitoring (scheduled detections) |
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Browser detection | For example, you activated Network Analysis and Monitoring. Then, you purchased a resource plan that provides one million detection requests and created a browser detection task on July 1, 2023. The task sends requests to the detection points that are located in the China (Shanghai) region of Alibaba Cloud and the UK (London) region of Alibaba Cloud at a frequency of 5 minutes. The following items show the remaining detection requests on August 1:
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For more information about the offset rules of resource plans, see Offset rules of resource plans.
For the detection requests that are used on the current day, a resource plan is used to offset the fee on the next day, when a bill is generated for the fee.
The prices in this topic are provided for reference only. The actual prices on the buy page prevail.
Offset rules of resource plans
The following table describe the offset rules of the resource plans for detection requests.
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Validity period | The validity period of a resource plan is one year. If a resource plan expires but is not exhausted, the quotas in the resource plan are automatically cleared. |
Effective time | A resource plan immediately takes effect after you purchase the resource plan. For the detection requests that are used on the current day, a resource plan is used to offset the fee on the next day, when a bill is generated for the fee. |
Offset rules |
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Offset order | You can purchase multiple resource plans. The resource plans are used to offset the fees of Network Analysis and Monitoring based on the following rules:
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View the details of resource plans
After you purchase resource plans, you can check the usage of the resource plans at any time, facilitating proper use of resource plans.
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
In the left-side navigation pane of the Expenses and Costs page, click Manage Reserved Instances.