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Last Updated:Mar 06, 2025

This topic describes the billing of Compute Nest.

Billing overview

Compute Nest is free of charge. Customers are charged for services and the cloud resources used to deploy services.

Billable items

Billable itemDescriptionBilling rule
Compute NestCompute Nest is free of charge. N/A
ServiceWhether customers are charged service fees depends on whether a service provider publishes a service as an Alibaba Cloud Marketplace product.
  • If the service is not published in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, customers do not need to pay service fees.
  • If the service is published in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace:
    • Customers need to pay service fees based on the billing rules specified by the service provider in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.
    • The service provider needs to pay fees for using Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.
  • If the service is not published in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, no fees are charged for this item.
  • If the service is published in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace:
    • The service provider defines the billing method. Alibaba Cloud Marketplace supports billing methods such as subscription and one-time payment.
Cloud resourceFees are charged for the Alibaba Cloud resources, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances and virtual private clouds (VPCs), used to deploy services. For more information, see the documentation of the related Alibaba Cloud services. For example, for information about the billing of ECS, see Billing overview.

Payment, renewal, and refunds

Compute Nest is free of charge. For information about the payment, renewal, and refund rules of Alibaba Cloud Marketplace and Alibaba Cloud resources, see the corresponding documentation.