Billing details and instructions for upgrading, renewing, suspending, and downgrading DataWorks editions - DataWorks

The Standard, Professional, and Enterprise editions of DataWorks are available by subscription. . Select and purchase an edition that fits your business requirements.

Note

For a complete list of all billable items in DataWorks, see Billing overview.

Editions and selection

DataWorks offers four editions: Basic, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise. Choose the edition that best meets your business needs.

Edition	Recommended for	Recommended use cases	Key differences
Basic Edition	Students, individual developers, and startup teams	POC: Quickly validate the feasibility of data projects. Develop non-critical, small-scale data applications. Get started with data development practices at a low cost.	Offers capabilities for data cloud migration, basic development and scheduling, and simple data governance for quick validation and lightweight use cases.
Standard Edition	Small businesses, production O&M teams, and pilot teams in business departments	Build an enterprise data quality monitoring system. Support core business data flows in a production environment. Enable enterprise data collaboration and management.	Enhances enterprise data management capabilities, such as lineage analysis and tag management. It ensures business continuity and stability with intelligent baseline alerts.
Professional Edition	Small to medium-sized enterprises and business departments with high SLA requirements	Meet data security and compliance requirements. Manage complex business processes and multi-party collaboration. Ensure high SLA for data assets.	Provides enhanced data security capabilities, including data masking and access control. It integrates business-oriented data management capabilities and enhances development-side access and collaboration.
Enterprise Edition (recommended)	Medium to large enterprises and corporate headquarters	Build an enterprise-level data platform architecture. Achieve unified resource management across multiple business lines. Enable fine-grained cost and resource management.	Provides comprehensive, systematic, and built-in best-practice full-lifecycle data governance capabilities covering development, operations, quality, security, and assets. Supports CloudSSO multi-account permission management, enterprise-oriented open and customization capabilities, and full Open API, message event, and Extensions mechanisms.

Edition capability comparison

Important

For a complete list of capabilities for each DataWorks edition, see Edition feature list.
Data Modeling is a value-added module independent of all DataWorks editions and must be purchased separately.

Key capability differences between editions:

Module	Standard Edition (capabilities added compared to Basic Edition)	Professional Edition (capabilities added compared to Standard Edition)	Enterprise Edition (capabilities added compared to Professional Edition)
Data Studio	For-each node, do-while node, merge node, branch node, assignment node, component management, batch operations, query result download	Code review, check node	Higher limits on objects such as nodes and code files, query result download volume, Git sync and merge, operation check, HTTP trigger node, dependency check node, code review with Webhook support
Operation Center	Intelligent baseline	Intelligent diagnostics, duty roster, workspace parameters	Schedule calendar
Data Governance	Asset tag management	-	Governance issue identification and optimization Pre-check item prevention and blocking Resource statistics and analysis Governance effectiveness evaluation
Data Quality	-	-	Dynamic threshold, data quality reports, custom rule template library
Data Map	Table lineage, column lineage	Data Collection	-
Data Analysis	Data sharing, SQL query result download, code search	-	-
Data Security	Data Classification	Security risks, abnormal behavior, data masking, data tracing	Data masking (custom masking policies)
Data Security Guard	Sensitive data classification and identification Data access records	Custom content scanning Risk identification dashboard Data masking	Self-generated data identification models Built-in scanning models Create and manage sample libraries
Security Center	Security overview (sensitive data and data access trends)	Security overview (security risk trends)	Approval policies, risk identification rules, Ranger management, identity credentials
Migration Assistant	-	Support importing OSS files	Unlimited exports
Open Platform	Partial Open API	Partial advanced Open API	Open Event, Extensions, higher Open API QPS

Edition pricing

. Annual subscriptions are available at discounted prices. For exact pricing, check the purchase console.

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

Software edition purchase

Note

For professional pre-sales purchase guidance, see DataWorks purchase guide.

Log on to the DataWorks edition (subscription) buy page to purchase DataWorks Standard, Professional, or Enterprise Edition. When purchasing DataWorks, pay attention to the following two parameters:

Region and zone: The region in which to activate DataWorks. You can purchase only one non-Basic Edition of DataWorks in the same region at the same time.
Duration: The duration for which the specified DataWorks edition is available.

We recommend that you select Auto-renewal upon expiration. Auto-renewal can be canceled at any time. For more information, see Renewal management.

Expiration and downgrade

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

If you do not renew your DataWorks Standard, Professional, or Enterprise Edition within 15 days after it expires, the edition is downgraded to Basic Edition on the 15th day after expiration. After the downgrade, features exclusive to the Standard, Professional, or Enterprise Edition become unavailable, but existing tasks continue to run normally. You must purchase a DataWorks Basic Edition to access the DataWorks console.

Important

For information about the feature changes after a DataWorks edition is downgraded upon expiration, see Appendix: Feature changes after downgrade.

Edition upgrade and downgrade

DataWorks editions rank from lowest to highest: Basic, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise. If your current edition does not meet your business requirements, upgrade or downgrade as needed.

Upgrade impact and fees

You can upgrade from a lower edition to a higher edition. After the upgrade, features exclusive to the higher edition become available immediately. Running tasks are not affected. You pay the price difference for the remaining time in the current billing cycle.

Downgrade impact and fees

You can downgrade from a higher edition to a lower edition. After the downgrade, features exclusive to the higher edition become unavailable. The price difference for the remaining billing cycle is refunded. The impact is the same as described in Expiration and downgrade.

Upgrade and downgrade operations

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

Click the Subscription - Feature tab, and click Upgrade or Downgrade in the Actions column of the target instance.

The upgrade or downgrade takes effect immediately. No wait is required.

Renewal

If your DataWorks Standard, Professional, or Enterprise Edition is about to expire, you can renew it before expiration or within 360 hours after expiration. If you do not renew within 360 hours after expiration, features exclusive to the Standard, Professional, or Enterprise Edition are suspended.

Enable or disable auto-renewal through renewal management.

Log on to the DataWorks console. In the upper-right corner of the top navigation bar, click Price > Renewal Management to go to the Renewal Management page.
On the Renewal Management page, select the DataWorks Edition (subscription) product category, and click Renew, Auto-Renewal, or Don't Renew in the Actions column.

If your Alibaba Cloud account has insufficient balance, the deduction fails and the renewal cannot be completed.

Unsubscription

All DataWorks editions support unsubscription. For details, see Unsubscription.

Appendix: Feature changes after downgrade

DataWorks module	Feature	Changes after downgrade
Data Studio	Associate compute resources	You cannot associate new compute resources. You cannot disassociate already associated compute resources.
	Flow control nodes	Feature suspended. Tasks fail.
	Check node / HTTP trigger / Dependency check	Feature suspended. Tasks fail.
	Component management / SQL component node	Feature suspended. Tasks fail.
	Code review / Operation check	Feature suspended.
	Git sync and merge	Feature suspended.
	Batch operations	Feature suspended.
	Creation limits	Object count is limited. You cannot create new objects after reaching the limit.
	Node execution result download limit	Feature suspended.
	Advanced API	Feature suspended. API requests return errors.
Operation Center	Intelligent baseline	You cannot access the baseline management or baseline instance page. Custom rules cannot select baseline rules, and no baseline instances are generated.
	Advanced API	Feature suspended. API requests return errors.
	Duty roster	DataWorks retains your existing duty roster data. After you upgrade to Professional Edition or a higher edition, the duty roster feature works normally again.
	Workspace parameters	Feature suspended. Tasks fail.
	Schedule calendar	Feature suspended. Tasks fail.
	Intelligent diagnostics	Feature suspended.
Data Asset Governance	All features	Feature suspended.
Data Quality	Dynamic threshold	Feature suspended. You cannot create new dynamic threshold rules, but existing rules are not affected.
	Custom data quality reports	Feature suspended. You cannot create new data quality reports, but existing reports are not affected.
	Custom rule templates	Feature suspended. You cannot create new rule templates, and existing templates are affected.
	Advanced API	Feature suspended. API requests return errors.
Data Map	Details - Lineage: Table, column, impact analysis	Feature suspended. A message prompts you to upgrade to a higher edition.
	Table details - Column changes: Impact analysis, email notification	Feature suspended. Existing email notification records are retained but cannot be used. The feature is unavailable, and a message prompts you to purchase a higher edition.
	Data Collection	Feature suspended. You cannot create new Data Collections.
	Advanced API	Feature suspended. API requests return errors.
Data Analysis	SQL query	File count is limited. You cannot create new files after reaching the limit.
	SQL code search	Feature suspended.
	SQL query result export method	Only exporting to spreadsheets is supported.
	Download SQL query results to local	Feature suspended.
	Sharing feature	Feature suspended.
	Advanced API	Feature suspended. API calls return errors.
Data Security Guard	All features	Feature suspended. You cannot access the Data Security Guard page.
Security Center	Risk identification rules	Feature suspended.
	Ranger management	Feature suspended.
	Identity credentials	Feature suspended.
Approval center	All features	You cannot create or edit approval policies.
Migration Assistant	DataWorks migration, free export packages within the 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.