A savings plan is a discount plan that provides savings over pay-as-you-go rates in exchange for a commitment to use a consistent amount of resources for a specific period. After a savings plan takes effect, it can be used to offset qualified pay-as-you-go bills at a special discount.
You can purchase multiple savings plans.
Purchase
Discount policy
When you purchase a savings plan, you prepay the entire committed consumption amount at once. During the validity period, any usage beyond the committed amount is billed based on data ingestion volume.
Duration | Committed consumption amount (USD/year) | Discount rate |
1 year | 150～1350 | 90% |
1 year | 1400～2700 | 80% |
1 year | 2750～5400 | 70% |
1 year | 5450 | 60% |
Example
Assume a user purchases a savings plan with an annual committed consumption of USD 675, which provides a 90% discount on pay-as-you-go rates. This can offset pay-as-you-go bills worth USD 750.
Billing method | First day | Second day | Third day | Fourth day |
Assumed original bill | USD 0 | USD 375 | USD 300 | USD 300 |
Official pay-as-you-go price | Total: USD 0 | Total: USD 375 | Total: USD 300 | Total: USD 300 |
Price after savings plan discount | Total: USD 0 | Discounted total: USD 337.5, offset by committed consumption amount. | Discounted total: USD 270, offset by committed consumption amount. | Remaining committed consumption amount can offset USD 75, excess amount still uses pay-as-you-go pricing 75*90%+225=USD 292.5 |
Offset items of savings plans
After you activate a savings plan, the savings plan will offset the following items. You can go to the Savings Plan Overview page. On the Overview page, click Configure Offset Rules in the Actions column to enable or disable the offset items of the corresponding savings plan for fine-grained management. You can configure the Offset option displayed in the console according to the following table.
There is no fixed priority order among the offset items of a savings plan. The offset logic is first-billed, first-offset.
The adjusted offset rules take effect immediately. However, because billing is delayed, the adjustment of offset rules may affect your billing cycle bills that are currently being processed.
Sub-product | Corresponding product name | Data type | Detailed rules |
Application Monitoring | ARMS Application Monitoring Pay-As-You-Go - Billing based on observable data ingestion | Metrics | |
Traces | |||
Profiling | |||
Managed Service for OpenTelemetry | Managed Service for OpenTelemetry Pay-As-You-Go - Billing based on observable data ingestion | Metrics | |
Traces | |||
Profiling | |||
Managed Service for Prometheus | Managed Service for Prometheus Pay-As-You-Go - Billing based on observable data ingestion | Amount of written metric data | |
Managed Service for Prometheus Pay-As-You-Go - Billing based on metric reporting volume | Number of metric reports (million times) | ||
ARMS Prometheus Monitoring Service - Pay-As-You-Go | Number of metric reports (million times) |
FAQ
How do I modify my committed consumption to get a different discount tier after using the service for a while?
You can purchase additional savings plans. If the discount rates are different, they will be billed separately.
If the discount rates are the same, the offset order of savings plans is: savings plans that expire earlier will offset first. If the expiration times are the same, the savings plan purchased earlier will offset first.
What are the principles for applying discounts when both pay-as-you-go discounts and savings plan discounts exist simultaneously?
Savings plan discounts cannot be combined with other discounts. If your pay-as-you-go pricing has other discounts, the system will apply the most favorable discount (the one with the greater discount):
If the savings plan discount is lower than the product's own pay-as-you-go discount, the original savings plan discount will still apply. Example: If the original cost is USD 200/day, the savings plan discount is 60%, which is lower than the product's own pay-as-you-go discount of 80%, then the 60% discount will apply, and the actual cost after discount will be: USD 200 × 60% = USD 120.
If the savings plan discount is higher than the product's own pay-as-you-go discount, the product's own pay-as-you-go discount will apply. Example: If the original cost is USD 300/day, the savings plan discount is 90%, which is higher than the product's own pay-as-you-go discount of 70%, then the 70% discount will apply, and the actual cost after discount will be: USD 300 × 70% = USD 210.
What is the priority order of different discount benefits?
When you enjoy multiple discount benefits simultaneously, the offset priority from high to low is as follows:
Savings plans.
Coupons.
Vouchers.
How does a savings plan offset if I use both regions in China and outside China?
The bills for regions in China and outside China belong to the same metering data. The savings plan will offset based on the total bill amount, and any excess will be charged at the original pay-as-you-go price.
If you need to use savings plans for different teams separately, we recommend using multiple enterprise accounts.
How does a savings plan work when the number of instances that can be offset is not an integer?
Suppose your savings plan can offset 18.22 Prometheus instance bills per day, which is not an integer. This means that if you have 19 Prometheus instances running, 22% of the bill for one Prometheus instance will be offset, and the remaining 78% of the bill will be charged at the normal pay-as-you-go rate.
How do I view discounts?
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
View the information on the page.
How do I view savings plan instance information and usage details?
After purchasing a savings plan, you can view the usage details and utilization rate of the savings plan.
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
In the left-side navigation pane, select to view the data of savings plans offsetting pay-as-you-go cloud product resource instances.
In the left-side navigation pane, select to view the corresponding unit price discounts available when purchasing various savings plans.