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This topic describes the billable items and billing methods of DataWorks.

Billable items

DataWorks offers the Basic Edition and the following four advanced editions: Standard Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition, and Ultimate Edition. Each edition offers different services, including Data Integration, DataStudio, Data Modeling, DataService Studio, Data Quality, Intelligent Monitoring, and OpenAPI in Open Platform. Resource groups for Data Integration or resource groups for scheduling are used to run DataWorks nodes.

You are charged based on the DataWorks edition that you activate and the services and resource groups that you use. DataWorks supports the pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods.

Note Other services, such as compute engines, storage services, or network services, that you may use to run DataWorks nodes have separate billing methods.

DataWorks editions: DataWorks offers the Basic Edition and the following four advanced editions: Standard Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition, and Ultimate Edition.
- Basic Edition: You can use DataWorks Basic Edition for free. In this edition, you are charged only for the services and resource groups that you use to run nodes.
- Advanced editions: The advanced editions of DataWorks support the subscription billing method. For more information, see DataWorks advanced editions.
Note For more information about the services that are included in different editions of DataWorks, see Differences among DataWorks editions.
DataWorks services:
- Data Modeling is billed based on the subscription billing method.
- Other services are billed based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. You are charged only when you use the services. For more information, see the following topics:
Resource groups: DataWorks supports resource groups for scheduling and resource groups for Data Integration.DataWorks provides a shared resource group that can be shared by all tenants. The shared resource group ensures that your nodes can be normally run.
- Exclusive resource groups: Exclusive resource groups are used in exclusive mode. DataWorks supports exclusive resource groups for Data Integration and exclusive resource groups for scheduling. Exclusive resource groups are billed based on the subscription billing method. For more information, see the following topics:
  - Performance metrics and pricing of exclusive resource groups for scheduling
  - Performance metrics and pricing of exclusive resource groups for Data Integration
- Shared resource group: DataWorks provides a shared resource group for scheduling for all tenants. If you use the shared resource group to run nodes, the nodes may wait for resources during peak hours. We recommend that you purchase exclusive resource groups to run your nodes. The shared resource group is billed based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see the following topic:
  - Shared resource groups for scheduling
Note For more information about resource groups and their use scenarios, see Overview.
Other billable items:
- If you use an exclusive resource group for Data Integration to run a Data Integration node and Internet traffic is generated, you are charged for the generated Internet traffic based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see Internet traffic generated by Data Integration.
  
  Note If you use a custom resource group for Data Integration to run a Data Integration node and Internet traffic is generated, you are not charged for the generated Internet traffic.
- Other services, such as compute engines, storage services, or network services, that you may use to run DataWorks nodes have separate billing methods.

Pay-as-you-go and subscription

DataWorks supports the pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods.

Pay-as-you-go
You are charged for the actual amount of resources that you use multiplied by the unit price. Two billing cycles are used for different billable items.
- Hourly billing: Every hour, the billing system calculates the actual resource usage over the previous hour and deducts the actual fees from your account balance.
  For example, you are billed at 09:30 for the fees that are generated from 08:00 to 09:00.
- Daily billing: The billing system calculates the actual resource usage over the previous calendar day and deducts the actual fee from your account balance.
  For example, you are billed at 00:00:00 on May 12, 2019 for the fees that are generated from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 on May 11, 2019.
If you want to use all basic features of DataWorks, we recommend that you select the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go.
Subscription
You can use resources that are billed based on the subscription billing method only after you pay for them. You can pay for a service on a monthly or yearly basis.
Note For users who use Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI):
- If you scheduled and run Machine Learning experiment nodes in DataWorks before PAI is commercially available, after PAI is commercially available, DataWorks Basic Edition can meet your scheduling requirements.
- If you navigate from PAI to DataWorks and deploy Machine Learning experiment nodes in DataWorks after PAI is commercially available, you are charged for the number of scheduled nodes in DataWorks.