Resource plans allow you to use resources at more favorable prices and help you reduce costs. This topic describes the types and unit prices of resource plans provided by Function Compute and how to manage resource plans, including how to purchase and view resource plans, and configure quota alerting.
Types and prices
Function Compute provides resources plans of different sizes. You can buy resource plans based on your business requirements to offset fees of billable items of Function Compute. For more information about the billable items, see Billing overview.
Resource plan | Quota (CU per year) | Price (USD) |
1 | 1 million | 19 |
2 | 10 million | 185 |
3 | 100 million | 1,800 |
4 | 500 million | 8,500 |
5 | 2 billion | 30,000 |
The following table shows the volume of resource usage that corresponds to each size of CU resource plan. Resource usage include the number of function invocations, active vCPU usage, idle vCPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, active GPU usage, and idle GPU usage. The following formula is used for conversion: Resource usage = CU usage/CU conversion factor.
Resource usage type | CU resource plan size (CU) | |||||
1 million | 10 million | 100 million | 500 million | 2 billion | ||
Number of function invocations | Conversion factor | 75 CU/10,000 | ||||
Equivalent volume | About 133 million invocations | About 1.33 billion invocations | About 13.3 billion invocations | About 66.6 billion invocations | About 266.6 billion invocations | |
Active vCPU usage | Conversion factor | 1 CU/vCPU-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | 1 million vCPU-seconds | 10 million vCPU-seconds | 100 million vCPU-seconds | 500 million vCPU-seconds | 2 billion vCPU-seconds | |
Idle vCPU usage | Conversion factor | 0 CU/vCPU-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
Memory usage | Conversion factor | 0.15 CU/GB-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | About 6.66 million GB-seconds | About 66.66 million GB-seconds | About 666 million GB-seconds | About 3.33 billion GB-seconds | About 13.3 billion GB-seconds | |
Disk usage | Conversion factor | 0.05 CU/GB-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | 20 million GB-seconds | 200 million GB-seconds | 2 billion GB-seconds | 10 billion GB-seconds | 40 billion GB-seconds | |
Tesla series Active GPU usage | Conversion factor | 2.1 CU/GB-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | About 476,000 GB-seconds | About 4.76 million GB-seconds | About 47 million GB-seconds | About 238 million GB-seconds | About 952 million GB-seconds | |
Tesla series Idle GPU usage | Conversion factor | 0.5 CU/GB-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | 2 million GB-seconds | 20 million GB-seconds | 200 million GB-seconds | 1 billion GB-seconds | 4 billion GB-seconds | |
Ada series Active GPU usage | Conversion factor | 1.5 CU/GB-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | About 666,000 GB-seconds | About 6.66 million GB-seconds | About 66 million GB-seconds | About 333 million GB-seconds | About 1.33 billion GB-seconds | |
Ada series Idle GPU usage | Conversion factor | 0.25 CU/GB-second | ||||
Equivalent volume | 4 million GB-seconds | 40 million GB-seconds | 400 million GB-seconds | 2 billion GB-seconds | 8 billion GB-seconds | |
The prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Validity period
The validity period of each type of resource plan is 12 months. A resource plan takes effect from the date when the order is placed and expires at the end of the validity period. After the resource plan expires, the resource quota in the resource plan becomes invalid.
You are charged for resource usage on a pay-as-you-go basis when the resource plans you buy expire or are used up. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go.
Offset order
Resource plans and trial quotas are first used to offset fees. If you have purchased multiple resource plans, the resource plan that expire first are preferentially used. After all the trial quotas and resource plans are exhausted, you are charged on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go.
Buy resource plans
Log on to the Function Compute console. In the Resource Plan section on the right side of the Overview page, click Buy Now. On the page that appears, select the resource plan type and specifications.
Refund policy
You can request a full refund after you purchase a resource plan within five days if the resource plan is not used. If the resource plan is used in five days, fees of resource usage are deducted based on the unit prices of Pay-as-you-go before the balance is refunded. You can request only one five-day full refund in each natural year. You cannot request a refund if the resource plan is purchased for more than 5 days.
Manage resource plans
After you buy a resource plan, you can view the purchase records and usage information in Expenses and Costs. In addition, you can enable quota alerting for resource plans to avoid resource unavailability caused by overdue payments. When the remaining quota of a resource plan is lower than the configured threshold, the system notifies you by means such as text messages.
Go to the Manage Reserved Instances page and perform the following steps:
Click the Instances tab to view the purchase records and statistics of resource plans, including the status of resource plans, remaining capacity, effective time, and expiration time.
You can also check the remaining quota of a resource plan in the Resource Plan section on the right side of the Overview page of the Function Compute console.
Click Set Remaining Quota Alert in the upper-right corner. Configure the threshold for quota alerting and then click OK.
Turn on the Enable Alert switch in the Set Remaining Quota Alert Uniformly section to simultaneously enable quota alerts for all resource plans. You can configure different quota alert rules for different resource plans in the list.