The billing system of DataWorks consists of billing on software and billing on resources. DataWorks supports the subscription and pay-as-you-go billing methods. The billing method that can be used varies based on the billable item. This topic describes the billable items of DataWorks.
Billable items
The following figure shows the billable items of DataWorks. You can purchase features and resources based on your business requirements.
To activate and use DataWorks, you need to only purchase any DataWorks edition and pay-as-you-go features or resources. For more information about how to activate DataWorks, see Activate DataWorks.
After you purchase pay-as-you-go features or resources, you are charged for actual usage. For more information, see Overview of the pay-as-you-go billing method in DataWorks.
Billable item | Description | References |
Software: edition | DataWorks provides the following editions: Basic Edition, Standard Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise Edition. DataWorks Basic Edition is free of charge. Standard Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise Edition are advanced editions that you must purchase before you can use these editions. After you activate DataWorks, DataWorks Basic Edition is activated by default. The DataWorks advanced editions provide more features than DataWorks Basic Edition. You can select an edition based on your business requirements. | |
Software: Data Modeling | DataWorks Data Modeling allows you to plan and design data warehouses, formulate and summarize data standards, perform dimensional modeling, and define data metrics. | |
Resource: resource group | Serverless resource groups that are provided by DataWorks are a type of general-purpose resource group. You can use a serverless resource group to complete operations such as data synchronization, data computing, task scheduling, and debugging and calling of DataService Studio APIs. You do not need to separately purchase and configure resource groups for different scenarios. Serverless resource groups support the subscription and pay-as-you-go billing methods. The fees that are generated vary based on the use scenario. You can select a billing method based on your business requirements. Note For old-version resource groups, you must separately purchase and configure resource groups for different scenarios. For information about billing details of old-version resource groups, see Billing of old-version resource groups. New users cannot use old-version resource groups. | |
Resource: intelligent monitoring |
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Resource: Data Quality | Data Quality monitors the quality of table data generated by tasks. You are charged for the quality check based on the number of monitoring rules that are used in the check. The related fees are included in your DataWorks bills. | |
Resource: OpenAPI | DataWorks provides the OpenAPI module. You can specify custom business development modes by using this module. You are charged for API calls based on the number of calls that you make. The related fees are included in your DataWorks bills. |