Billing details for DataWorks editions, and instructions for upgrades, renewals, service suspension, and downgrades - DataWorks

DataWorks Standard Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise Edition are billed on a subscription basis. The fees for each edition vary. You can select and purchase an edition based on your business scenario. This topic describes the billing details of each DataWorks edition.

Note

For more information about all billable items of DataWorks, see Billing overview.

Edition specifications and selection

DataWorks offers four editions: Basic, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise. You can quickly select an edition based on your business needs.

Edition	Recommended users	Recommended scenarios	Core differences
Basic Edition	Students, individual developers, and startup teams	Proof of Concept (POC): Quickly verify the feasibility of data projects. Develop non-critical, small-scale data applications. Start data development practices at a low cost.	Provides capabilities such as data migration to the cloud, basic development and scheduling, and simple data governance to meet requirements for quick verification and lightweight data processing.
Standard Edition	Small enterprises, production service assurance departments, and pilot business departments	Build an enterprise data quality monitoring system. Support core business data forwarding in a production environment. Manage enterprise data and collaboration.	Enhances enterprise-level data management with capabilities such as lineage analysis and tag management. Supports business continuity and stability with intelligent baseline alerts.
Professional Edition	Small and medium-sized enterprises and business departments with high Service-level agreement (SLA) requirements	Meet data security and compliance requirements. Manage complex business processes and multi-party collaboration. High-SLA protection for Assets	Enhances data security with features such as data masking and access control. Integrates business-oriented data management and improves development-side access and collaboration.
Enterprise Edition (Recommended)	Medium-to-large enterprises and corporate headquarters	Build an enterprise-grade data mid-end architecture. Implement unified resource control across multiple lines-of-business. Perform fine-grained cost and resource management.	Provides complete, systematic, and built-in best practices for full-lifecycle data governance, covering development, O&M, quality, security, and assets. Supports multi-account permission management through CloudSSO. Offers enterprise-oriented openness and customization with a full range of OpenAPI operations, management events, and extension mechanisms.

Feature comparison

Important

For a complete list of features in each DataWorks edition, see Feature Details by Version.
Data modeling is a value-added module that is independent of DataWorks editions and must be purchased separately.

The following table describes the key differences between DataWorks editions.

Module capabilities	Standard Edition (features added to Basic Edition)	Professional Edition (features added to Standard Edition)	Enterprise Edition (features added to Professional Edition)
Data Studio	for-each, do-while, merge, branch, and assignment nodes; component management; batch operations; and query result downloads	Code review and check nodes	Object capacity (including nodes and code files), query result download size, Git sync and merge, operation checks, HTTP trigger nodes, dependency check nodes, and Webhook support for code review
Operation Center	Intelligent baselines	Intelligent diagnosis, shift schedules, and workspace parameters	Scheduling calendar
Data governance center	Asset tag management	-	Governance issue identification and optimization Proactive interception with pre-check items Resource statistical analysis Governance effectiveness evaluation
Data Quality	-	-	Dynamic thresholds, quality reports, and custom rule template library
Data Map	Table lineage and field lineage	Data albums	-
Data Analysis	Data sharing, SQL query downloads, and code search	-	-
Data security	-	-	Risk auditing, custom approval policies, and custom roles
Data Security Guard	Sensitive data classification and identification Data access records	Custom content scanning Fraud Detection dashboard Data masking	Self-generated data identification models Built-in scanning models Create and manage sample libraries
Security Center	-	-	Fraud Detection rules, Ranger management, and identity credentials
Approval center	-	-	Support for approval policies
Migration assistant	-	Support for importing OSS files	Unlimited exports
Open Platform	Some OpenAPI operations	Some advanced OpenAPI operations	OpenEvent, extensions, and higher OpenAPI QPS

Billing

Discounts are available for annual subscriptions. For specific pricing details, refer to the purchase page in the console.

Edition	Price
Basic Edition	Free
Standard Edition	387 USD/month
Professional Edition	774 USD/month
Enterprise Edition	3,096 USD/month

Software version

Note

For professional pre-sales guidance, see the Purchasing guide.

Log on to the DataWorks (Subscription) purchase page to purchase the Standard, Professional, or Enterprise edition. When purchasing a DataWorks edition, note the following parameters:

Region and Zone: The region where DataWorks is activated. In the same region, you can purchase only one non-Basic edition at a time.
Duration: The validity period of the selected DataWorks edition.

You can select Auto-renewal. You can cancel auto-renewal at any time. For more information, see Renew an expiring resource.

Downgrade upon expiration

Alibaba Cloud sends expiration notifications to the mobile phone number and email address associated with your Alibaba Cloud account 14, 12, and 8 days before your purchased Standard, Professional, or Enterprise edition expires.

If you do not renew your subscription within 15 days after your DataWorks Standard, Professional, or Enterprise edition expires, your edition is automatically downgraded to the Basic Edition on the 15th day. After the downgrade, features exclusive to the Standard, Professional, or Enterprise edition become unavailable, but existing tasks are not affected. To access the features of a paid edition again, you must purchase a new subscription.

Important

For more information about the functional changes after a downgrade, see Appendix: Functional changes after a downgrade.

Upgrades and downgrades

DataWorks editions, from lowest to highest, are Basic, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise. If your purchased edition no longer meets your business requirements, you can upgrade or downgrade it as needed.

Upgrade impact and fees

You can upgrade to a higher edition to use its exclusive features. Upgrades do not affect running tasks. You must pay the price difference for the remainder of the current billing cycle.

Downgrade impact and fees

You can downgrade to a lower edition. After the downgrade, you can no longer use the features exclusive to the higher edition. The platform refunds the price difference for the remainder of the current billing cycle. The impact of a downgrade is the same as that of a downgrade upon expiration.

Upgrade and downgrade operations

Log on to the DataWorks console. On the Purchased Resources and Services page, you can upgrade or downgrade the edition as needed.

Upgrade and downgrade operations take effect immediately.

Renewal policy

If your DataWorks Standard, Professional, or Enterprise edition is about to expire, you can renew it before the expiration date or within the 360-hour grace period after the expiration date. If you fail to renew within the grace period, the exclusive features of your edition are disabled.

You can enable or disable the auto-renewal feature in Renewal Management.

Log on to the DataWorks console. In the upper-right corner of the top navigation bar, click Expenses > Renewals to go to the Resource Renewal page.
On the Resource Renewal page, select DataWorks Edition (Subscription) as the product category and click the corresponding operation in the Actions column.

If your Alibaba Cloud account balance is insufficient, the payment fails, and the renewal is unsuccessful.

Unsubscription

You can unsubscribe from the DataWorks Basic, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise editions. For more information, see Stop billing.

Appendix: Functional changes after a downgrade

DataWorks module	Feature	Changes after downgrade upon expiration
Data Studio	Bind computing resources	You cannot bind new computing resources. You cannot detach bound computing resources.
	Flow control nodes	The feature is disabled and tasks fail.
	check node / HTTP trigger / dependency check	The feature is disabled and tasks fail.
	Component management / SQL script template	The feature is disabled and tasks fail.
	Code review / operation check	The feature is disabled.
	GTI Sync and Merge	The feature is disabled.
	Batch operations	The feature is disabled.
	Creation limits	The number of objects is limited. If the limit is reached, you cannot create new objects.
	Node run result download limit	The feature is disabled.
	Advanced API	The feature is disabled and API calls return errors.
Operation Center	Intelligent baselines	You cannot access the baseline management or baseline instance pages. You cannot select baseline rules for custom rules, and baseline instances are no longer generated.
	Advanced API	The feature is disabled and API calls return errors.
	Shift schedule	DataWorks retains your original shift schedule data. After you upgrade to the Professional Edition or higher, the shift schedule feature can be used again.
	Workspace parameters	The feature is disabled and tasks fail.
	Configure scheduling calendar	The feature is disabled and tasks fail.
	Intelligent diagnosis	The feature is disabled.
Data Governance	All features	The feature is disabled.
Data Quality	Dynamic threshold	The feature is disabled. You cannot create new dynamic threshold rules. Existing rules are not affected.
	Custom data quality reports	The feature is disabled. You cannot create new quality reports. Existing reports are not affected.
	Custom rule templates	The feature is disabled. You cannot create new rule templates. Existing templates are affected.
	Advanced API	The feature is disabled and API calls return errors.
Data Map	Details - Lineage information: table, field, and impact analysis	The feature is disabled. You are prompted to upgrade to a higher edition to view the related information.
	Table Details - Field Change: impact analysis, email notification	The feature is disabled. Existing email notification records are retained but cannot be used. A prompt to upgrade is displayed.
	Data albums	The feature is disabled. You cannot create new data albums.
	Advanced API	The feature is disabled and API calls return errors.
Data Analysis	SQL query	The number of files is limited. If the limit is reached, you cannot create new files.
	SQL code search	The feature is disabled.
	SQL query result export method	Only spreadsheet export is supported.
	Download SQL query results to a local computer	The feature is disabled.
	Share feature	The feature is disabled.
	Advanced API	The feature is disabled and API calls return errors.
Data Security Guard	All features	The feature is disabled and you cannot access the Data Security Guard page.
Security Center	Fraud Detection rules	The feature is disabled.
	Manage Ranger	The feature is disabled.
	Identity credentials	The feature is disabled.
Approval Center	All features	You cannot create or edit approval policies.
Migration Assistant	DataWorks migration, number of free export packages per tenant	Reduced to 10.
	DataWorks import package type	Only local files are supported. OSS files are not supported.
	Auto-submit and auto-deploy during DataWorks import	Auto-submit and auto-deploy are no longer supported.