Impact of expiration or overdue payments - Pricing| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

After a cluster expires or you have an overdue payment in your Alibaba Cloud account, the cluster is locked or released within a specific period of time.

Note After you receive a notification that you have overdue payments, clear the overdue payments to prevent your clusters from being locked or released.


Cluster billing method	Impact
Subscription	On the sixteenth day after a subscription cluster expires, the cluster enters the locked state and cannot be accessed. Notice During the fifteen days in between, you are charged for the cluster on a pay-as-you-go basis. The charges for the cluster are listed in your bill. On the eighth day after the cluster enters the locked state, the computing resources in the cluster are released and all the data stored in the cluster is deleted.
Pay-as-you-go	If you have an overdue payment in your Alibaba Cloud account, all pay-as-you-go clusters in this account become overdue. On the first day after the payment becomes overdue, each pay-as-you-go cluster runs normally and you are still charged for the resource usage. On the second day after the payment becomes overdue, each pay-as-you-go cluster enters the locked state and cannot be accessed. On the eighth day after each cluster enters the locked state, the computing resources in each cluster are released and all the data stored in each cluster is deleted.