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Elastic GPU Service:Billing for Elastic GPU Service

Last Updated:Jan 10, 2024

The billing for Elastic GPU Service is the same as the billing for Elastic Compute Service (ECS). This topic describes the billing details of Elastic GPU Service, including the billable items, billing methods, renewal policy, and refund policy.

Billable items and billing methods

A GPU-accelerated instance includes computing resources such as vCPUs, memory, and a GPU, an image, and block storage devices. The following table describes the billable items of Elastic GPU Service.

Billable item

Description

Billing method

Billing method switching

References

Computing resources (vCPUs, memory, and GPUs)

You are charged for the computing resources required by instance types, including vCPUs, memory, and GPUs.

The price of an instance type varies based on the region. For more information, go to the pricing page.

Subscription, pay-as-you-go, and preemptible instance. You can use the pay-as-you-go billing method together with reserved instances or savings plans.

Instance types

Image

Image fees vary based on the image type and the usage duration. Images are classified into public images, custom images, shared images, and Alibaba Cloud Marketplace images. The billing for the images varies based on the image types.

Subscription and pay-as-you-go. You can use the pay-as-you-go billing method together with reserved instances.

Note

Images must be used only with ECS instances. The fees for Windows reserved instances include the fees for public images and can cover public image charges.

Not supported

Images

Block storage device

Block storage devices are classified into cloud disks and local disks.

  • Cloud disk: Fees vary based on the unit price, capacity, and usage duration. The billing method of a cloud disk varies based on the method that you use to create the cloud disk.

  • Local disk: Local disks must be created together with specific instance types and cannot be separately purchased. The fees for local disks are included in the fees for the instance types.

Subscription, pay-as-you-go, and storage capacity unit (SCU). You can use the pay-as-you-go billing method together with savings plans.

Block storage devices

Public bandwidth

You can access the Internet by using static public IP addresses, elastic IP addresses (EIPs), and NAT gateways.

  • If you use a static public IP address to access the Internet, you are charged only for the outbound public bandwidth.

  • If you use an EIP or a NAT gateway to access the Internet, you must separately purchase the EIP or the NAT gateway. For more information about the billing details, see Billing overview and Billing of Internet NAT gateways.

Pay-by-bandwidth and pay-by-data-transfer.

Change the billing method of network usage

Public bandwidth

Snapshot

  • After you create snapshots, you are charged for region-specific snapshot storage based on the size of snapshots that are present in each region.

  • When you copy snapshots, you are charged for snapshot storage and data transfers of snapshot replication.

Pay-as-you-go, SCU, and Standard locally redundant storage (LRS) storage plan.

Not supported

Snapshots

Renewal policy

You can renew only subscription instances. For pay-as-you-go instances, you do not need to renew them, but you must make sure that your bank card account, PayPal account, or Paytm (India) account that is associated with your Alibaba Cloud account has sufficient balance or credit to cover costs. For more information, see Renewal overview.

Note

You can enable the economical mode for pay-as-you-go instances. The fees for a GPU-accelerated instance type include the fees for GPU resources. If you enable the economical mode for the instance, you are not charged for GPU resources. For more information, see Economical mode.

The following table describes the features that are related to the renewal of subscription instances.

Feature

Description

References

Manual renewal

Before an instance is automatically released, you can renew the instance in the ECS console to extend the expiration date.

Renew a subscription instance

Auto-renewal

  • Enable auto-renewal: If you enable the auto-renewal feature for an instance, the instance is automatically renewed before it expires. You can enable this feature to prevent the instance from being automatically released.

  • View the auto-renewal status: On the Instances page or Renewal page, you can check whether the auto-renewal feature is enabled for the instance.

  • Disable auto-renewal: If you no longer require the auto-renewal feature for an instance after the current billing cycle of the instance ends, you can disable the auto-renewal feature before the fees are automatically deducted from your account.

Renewal and configuration downgrade

If the configurations of an instance exceed your requirements, you can renew the instance and downgrade the configurations within 15 days before the instance expires or the time period when the instance has expired but is not released.

Downgrade the configurations of an instance during renewal

Unified expiration date

If you have multiple subscription instances that expire on different dates, you can synchronize the expiration dates to the same day of the month to simplify management and renewal.

Synchronize the expiration dates of subscription instances

Bills

You can go to the User Center to view the bills and the consumption details of your ECS resources. For more information, see View billing details.

Expiration or overdue payments

After ECS resources expire, the resource status varies and the overdue payments are handled based on the billing methods. For more information, see Overdue payments.

Billing FAQ

If billing issues occur when you purchase or use Elastic GPU Service, you can obtain information to help resolve the issues. For more information, see Billing FAQ. You can also submit a ticket to contact technical support.

Note

For more information about the cost components, cost benefits, and cost optimization suggestions of ECS, see Best practices for cost optimization.