Types and pricing
SAE offers a CU resource plan in annual subscription type. The specific information is as follows:
Chinese Mainland
Outside Chinese Mainland
Resource plan specification | Price per CU resource plan | Discounted price (Promotion period: February 17, 2025 to March 31, 2026) |
1 million CU | USD 6.85 | USD 6.51 |
10 million CU | USD 68.00 | USD 64.60 |
30 million CU | USD 201.00 | USD 190.95 |
100 million CU | USD 665.00 | USD 631.75 |
500 million CU | USD 3,292.00 | USD 3,127.40 |
2 billion CU | USD 13,030.00 | USD 12,378.50 |
Resource plan specification | Price per CU resource plan | Discounted price (Promotion period: February 17, 2025 to March 31, 2026) |
1 million CU | USD 10.60 | USD 10.07 |
10 million CU | USD 105.00 | USD 99.75 |
30 million CU | USD 314.00 | USD 298.30 |
100 million CU | USD 1,037.00 | USD 985.15 |
500 million CU | USD 5,131.00 | USD 4,874.45 |
2 billion CU | USD 20,311.00 | USD 19,295.45 |
Important
The conversion relationship between CU and vCPU/memory is as follows:
1 Core-hour = 3600 CU.
1 GiB-hour = 900 CU.
That is, 10 million CU can approximately support an instance with 1-core CPU and 2-GiB memory running continuously for 77 days.
Offset rules
The billing items of SAE are vCPU usage and memory usage. If you purchase a CU resource plan, the resource usage for each billing item is converted into CU usage and fees are preferentially offset from the CU resource plan balance.
Validity period
The validity period of a resource plan is subscription duration. For instance, if you purchase a one-year resource plan at 14:00 on February 12, 2025, it will expire at 14:00 on February 12, 2026
Supported regions
Resource plan is supported in all regions where SAE is supported. For a list of specific regions, see Supported regions.
Unsubscription rules
A five-day money-back guarantee is provided for a resource plan that is never used 5 days after the purchase. You can unsubscribe on the console. You cannot unsubscribe resource plans five days after the purchase or unsubscribe resource plans that are used. For more information, see Unsubscription rules.
Offset order
Overall offset order:
After purchasing a CU resource plan, the system will prioritize the deduction of the resource plan quota. If the CU resource plan quota is exhausted and you have not purchased a new CU resource plan, the system will charge based on actual resource usage in a pay-as-you-go manner. Once you purchase a new CU resource plan, the system will continue to prioritize the deduction of the new resource plan quota.
Offset Order After Stacking CU Resource Plans:
CU resource plans can be stacked. After purchase, the system will deduct in the order of expiration time, prioritizing the deduction of the CU resource plan that expires first. If multiple CU resource plans have the same expiration time, they will be deducted in the order of the purchase order.
Purchase a CU resource plan
Before purchasing a resource plan, please first enable pay-as-you-go billing method, otherwise the resource plan will be unusable.
Method 1:
Purchase a CU resource plan on the SAE Resource Plan buy page.
Method 2:
Log on to the SAE console. On the Overview page, click Purchase Resource Plans in the Resource Plan area to purchase a CU resource plan.
Note
The old version of the SAE console only support Method 1.
Query the usage of CU resource plan
After purchasing CU resource plans, you can view the usage of purchased CU resource plans in the Resource Plan area on the right side of the Overview page.
You can also log on to the Expenses and Costs console to view the usage of resource plan.
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