- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Operation Guide
- Practical Tutorial
- Access Guide
- Parameter Information
- FAQs
- Glossary
- Service Agreement
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Operation Guide
- Practical Tutorial
- Access Guide
- Parameter Information
- FAQs
- Glossary
- Service Agreement
This document describes the pricing structure, including the billing modes, billable items, billing cycles, and product pricing of Application Performance Management (APM), for you to quickly know the billing system of APM.
Billing Introduction
APM accommodates two billing methods: pay-as-you-go (postpaid) and packages (prepaid), detailed as follows:
Billing Method | Payment Mode | Billable Items | Target Audience | Billing Cycle | Supported Regions |
Purchasing pay-as-you-go instances | Postpaid | Reporting Volume/Storage Capacity | Having not estimated the scale of the system and its consumption capability. | Hourly | Public cloud region/finance region |
Package Purchase | Prepaid (Most Favorable) | Number of agents × Usage duration | Knowing of the number of agents of the current system. | Daily | Only Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou are supported. |
Billing Method
APM accommodates two billing methods: pay-as-you-go (postpaid) and packages (prepaid), detailed as follows:
Billing Method | Description |
Pay-as-you-go (postpaid) | This is the default billing mode for APM in which resources are used first and billed later. Charges are based on the actual usage of various billable items on an hourly basis. The fees are calculated, settled, deducted, and billed hourly. For more information, please see Pay-as-you-go (Postpaid). |
Package (prepaid) | Resources packs of APM are offered based on various billable items. These packs are purchased in advance and used later. At the time of settlement, the system will primarily deduct the usage from the package plan. Any usage exceeding the package will be billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, please see Packages (Prepaid). |
Billable Items
The two billing modes supported by APM offer identical product features. The functionality does not vary due to the different billable items of the product.
Billing Method | Payment Mode | Billable Items | Fee Calculation | Storage Duration | Sampling Policy |
Purchasing pay-as-you-go instances | Postpaid | Reporting Volume/Storage Capacity | Total cost = Overall reporting volume cost + Cumulative linkage storage duration cost Total reporting volume cost = Reporting quantity (in millions) x Unit price per reporting quantity Total linkage storage duration cost = Reporting quantity (in millions) x Storage duration (in days) x Unit price of linkage storage | You can choose it as needed. The storage duration affects consumption. | Default value is 100%. It is configurable as needed. The sampling rate affects consumption. |
Package | Prepaid (More Favorable) | Number of agents × Usage duration | A single billable item accounts for agents multiplied by usage hours, typically with agent indicating the number of processes. An agent is uniquely identified by [Appid, Instance ID, ServiceName, IP, Probe Version]. | You can choose it as needed, up to a maximum of 30 days. It does not affect consumption. | It is fixed to 10%, and all abnormal links are maintained. The package offers discounts and cannot be modified. |
Free Quota:
APM offers a 15-day trial period for new users, with a reporting limit of 100 million Spans and a storage duration of 1 day within these 15 days. If this quota is exceeded, you can manually switch to the paid version and be charged based on the pay-as-you-go mode. Different regions have different billing rates. To switch to the paid version, see Pay-as-you-go Payment Method.
Billing Cycle
Billing Method | Payment Mode | Billing Cycle |
Purchasing pay-as-you-go instances | Postpaid | Billing is conducted on an hourly basis. The total consumption generated in the first hour will be calculated and deducted within 2 to 4 hours. |
Package Purchase | Prepaid (Most Favorable) | Daily settlement is conducted for the fees incurred on the previous day, and the bill is issued. If there is no corresponding resource pack, fees will be based on the pay-as-you-go mode. |
Pricing
Billing Method | Payment Mode | Product Pricing |
Purchasing pay-as-you-go instances | Postpaid | Public cloud pricing applies to public cloud regions, while financial cloud pricing applies to financial cloud regions. For more details, see Introduction to Pay-as-you-go. |
Package | Prepaid (Most Favorable) | Package is only supported in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou regions. For more details, see Introduction to Packages. |
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