Hologres:Pay-as-you-go

Billing model

Pay-as-you-go bills are generated and settled every hour. After each billing cycle, the system automatically deducts the fee from your Alibaba Cloud account balance.

Billable items are divided into three categories:

Instance lifecycle

A Pay-as-you-go instance moves through four states:

Manual pause and resume

You can pause a Pay-as-you-go instance at any time from the Hologres console. While paused:

• Compute charges stop immediately.

• Storage charges continue, because your data remains in the instance.

To resume, click Resume in the console. The system requests compute resources from the availability zone. If resources are temporarily unavailable, an inventory shortage error is returned — submit a ticket to resolve this.

Pricing

The fees for the Pay-as-you-go billing method for Hologres are calculated as follows:

Compute pricing

Compute resources are billed hourly based on the number of CUs allocated to the instance. 1 CU = 1 core and 4 GB memory. The same price applies to general-purpose instances and read-only secondary instances.

Storage pricing

Storage is billed hourly based on actual data volume. Hologres offers four storage tiers; choose the tier that matches your redundancy requirements and access frequency.

Standard Storage — Locally Redundant (LRS)

Data is stored with local redundancy within a single availability zone. This is the standard tier for active workloads.

Standard Storage — Zone-Redundant (ZRS)

Data is replicated across multiple availability zones for higher durability. Available in select regions.

Infrequent Access Storage — Locally Redundant (LRS)

Lower-cost storage for data that is accessed infrequently. Uses local redundancy.

Infrequent Access Storage — Zone-Redundant (ZRS)

Lower-cost storage with cross-zone redundancy for infrequently accessed data. Available in select regions.

Network pricing

Cross-region snapshot replication incurs a network traffic fee based on the volume of data transferred. To stop this charge, disable cross-region snapshot replication.

Worked example

An instance with 64 CUs of compute and 100 GB of stored data running for one hour in Singapore:

• Compute: 0.066604 USD/CU/hour × 64 CUs × 1 hour = 4.262656 USD

• Storage: 0.000379 USD/GB/hour × 100 GB × 1 hour = 0.037900 USD

• Total: 4.300556 USD

Overdue payment and notifications

If your account has an overdue balance below 1,000 USD, your instance remains available but bill generation is paused. When the overdue balance reaches 1,000 USD, the system attempts an automatic deduction. If the deduction fails, the suspension countdown begins.

The system notifies you by text message and email at each stage:

Example: You purchase a Hologres instance and select Pay-as-you-go. Fees are settled hourly and automatically deducted from your account. If the accumulated overdue balance reaches 1,000 USD and a deduction fails, the system sends suspension reminders at 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before the suspension date. If no payment is made, the instance is suspended on day 15. If the balance remains unpaid for 14 days after suspension, the instance is automatically released and all data is permanently deleted.

Important notes