The billing system of DataWorks consists of billing on software and billing on resources. DataWorks supports the subscription and pay-as-you-go billing methods. The billing method that can be used varies based on the billable item. This topic describes the billable items of DataWorks.
Billable items
The following figure shows the billable items of DataWorks. You can purchase features and resources based on your business requirements.
To activate and use DataWorks, you need to only purchase any DataWorks edition and pay-as-you-go features or resources. For more information about how to activate DataWorks, see Activate DataWorks.
After you purchase pay-as-you-go features or resources, you are charged for actual usage. For more information, see Overview of the pay-as-you-go billing method in DataWorks.
Billable item | Description | References |
Software: edition | DataWorks provides the following editions: Basic Edition, Standard Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise Edition. DataWorks Basic Edition is free of charge. Standard Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise Edition are advanced editions that you must purchase before you can use these editions. After you activate DataWorks, DataWorks Basic Edition is activated by default. The DataWorks advanced editions provide more features than DataWorks Basic Edition. You can select an edition based on your business requirements. | Basic Edition is a required service and is free of charge. The remaining editions are advanced editions. You can select an advanced edition based on your business requirements. For information about the billing details of DataWorks editions and differences among the editions, see the following topics: |
Software: Data Modeling | DataWorks Data Modeling allows you to plan and design data warehouses, formulate and summarize data standards, perform dimensional modeling, and define data metrics. | Data Modeling is an advanced service. You can activate Data Modeling based on your business requirements. After you activate Data Modeling, you are separately billed. For more information, see Billing standards of Data Modeling. |
Resource: resource group | Serverless resource groups that are provided by DataWorks are a type of general-purpose resource group. You can use a serverless resource group to complete operations such as data synchronization, data computing, task scheduling, and debugging and calling of DataService Studio APIs. You do not need to separately purchase and configure resource groups for different scenarios. Serverless resource groups support the subscription and pay-as-you-go billing methods. The fees that are generated vary based on the use scenario. You can select a billing method based on your business requirements. Note For old-version resource groups, you must separately purchase and configure resource groups for different scenarios. For information about billing details of old-version resource groups, see the topics in the Billing of old-version resource groups directory. New users cannot use old-version resource groups. | Resource groups are required services. When you activate DataWorks, a pay-as-you-go serverless resource group is purchased by default. You are not charged for the resource group if you do not use it. For information about billing details of pay-as-you-go and subscription serverless resource groups, see Billing of serverless resource groups. |
Resource: intelligent monitoring |
| Intelligent monitoring is a required service. You are not charged for the service if you do not create or enable a baseline. If you enable a baseline, you are charged based on the number of baseline instances and the number of text messages or phone calls used to send alert notifications. For more information, see the following topics: |
Resource: Data Quality | Data Quality monitors the quality of table data generated by tasks. You are charged for the quality check based on the number of monitoring rules that are used in the check. The related fees are included in your DataWorks bills. | Data Quality is a required service. You are not charged for the service if you do not use it. If you use the service, you are charged based on the number of Data Quality checks that are triggered for task instances. For more information, see Billing of Data Quality. |
Resource: OpenAPI | DataWorks provides the OpenAPI module. You can specify custom business development modes by using this module. You are charged for API calls based on the number of calls that you make. The related fees are included in your DataWorks bills. | OpenAPI is a required service. DataWorks provides a free quota for API calls for each edition. If you use DataWorks Enterprise Edition and the free quota for the edition is used up, you are charged for the service based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see Billing of DataWorks API operations. |