This topic describes the billing methods, billable items, and billing cycle of Simple Log Service.
Billing methods
Simple Log Service supports the pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods.
Pay-as-you-go: You are charged based on the usage of each billable item. Fees are deducted after resources are consumed. Simple Log Service provides monthly free quotas. Simple Log Service supports the pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes. If your resource usage fluctuates, we recommend that you use the pay-as-you-go billing method.
Subscription (resource plan): You must purchase resource plans to offset the fees of billable items. Fees for the resource plans are deducted before you can use the resource plans to offset the fees of billable items. If your resource usage does not fluctuate, we recommend that you use the subscription billing method. For more information, see Overview.
Simple Log Service provides free quotas by Alibaba Cloud account. All projects that belong to an Alibaba Cloud account share the free quotas of the account.
The subscription billing method is more cost-effective than the pay-as-you-go billing method.
Each resource plan has a quota of resource usage. If the quota is exceeded, you are charged for the excess resource usage based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. We recommend that you purchase resource plans based on your workloads and business scale.
Billable items
Simple Log Service supports the pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes. You can use resource plans to offset the fees of billable items that are involved in the pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes.
Billable items of pay-by-ingested-data
The following figure shows the billable items that are involved in the pay-by-ingested-data billing mode.
Pay-as-you-go: For more information about the pricing of billable items, visit Pricing of Simple Log Service.
Billable items of pay-by-feature
The following figure shows the billable items that are involved in the pay-by-feature billing mode.
Pay-as-you-go: For more information about the pricing of billable items, visit Pricing of Simple Log Service.
Subscription: Simple Log Service provides resource plans that you can use to offset the fees of billable items. For more information about the pricing of resource plans, visit the buy page of Simple Log Service resource plans.
Billing cycle
The amount of consumed Simple Log Service resources is calculated on a daily basis. You are charged based on the amount of consumed resources.
References
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