Billing of SchedulerX instances

SchedulerX uses pay-as-you-go billing based on capacity units (CUs). You are charged daily based on actual usage. Basic Edition charges only for job hosting CUs. Professional Edition charges for both job hosting CUs and job scheduling CUs.

Free tier: The first 5 hosting CUs and 30 scheduling CUs per day are free.

Edition comparison

SchedulerX offers two editions with different feature sets and billable items.

Feature	Basic Edition	Professional Edition
Basic scheduling	Supported	Supported
Logging	Not supported	Supported (no extra charge)
Stack display	Not supported	Supported
Tracing	Not supported	Supported
User dashboard	Not supported	Supported
Workflow instance diagram	Not supported	Supported
Data encryption during transfer	Not supported	Supported
Tag-based routing policy	Not supported	Supported
Visual MapReduce (parallel computing)	Up to 300 tasks; no task search	Up to 1,000 tasks with custom tags and search
Historical job records	Last 30	Last 300
Alert notifications	DingTalk, email	DingTalk, email, text message, phone, WeCom, Lark
Maximum jobs per application	1,000	100,000 (join DingTalk group 23103656 for scale-out support)
API	Create, update, and delete jobs	All API operations
Billable items	Job hosting CUs	Job hosting CUs + job scheduling CUs

Billing concepts

Execution mode: Determines how a job runs. Jobs are either standalone (run on a single worker) or non-standalone (distributed across multiple workers). Non-standalone jobs include broadcast jobs, sharding jobs, MapReduce jobs, and visual MapReduce jobs.
Job hosting capacity: The total number of enabled jobs across all applications, measured in capacity units (CUs). This count is independent of how often each job runs.
Job scheduling capacity: The total amount of distributed job scheduling capacity that is configured and enabled by using SchedulerX, measured in CUs.

Billing method

Both editions use pay-as-you-go billing. Charges are calculated daily based on actual usage.

Edition	Billable items
Basic Edition	Job hosting CUs
Professional Edition	Job hosting CUs + job scheduling CUs

How job hosting CUs are calculated

Job hosting CUs represent the total enabled jobs across all applications. Calculate the hosting CUs for each application with this formula:

Hosting CUs = standalone jobs + (non-standalone jobs x connected workers)

Important

The daily count uses the peak number of concurrently enabled jobs. For example, if 1,000 jobs are created and 1,000 are deleted on the same day, but no more than 100 are enabled at the same time, the count for that day is 100.

Example: calculating hosting CUs

You have two applications:

	Application A	Application B
Connected workers	10	5
Enabled standalone jobs	8	2
Enabled non-standalone jobs	2	3

Calculate each application separately, then sum the totals:

Application A: 8 + (2 x 10) = 28 CUs
Application B: 2 + (3 x 5) = 17 CUs
Total hosting CUs per day = 28 + 17 = 45 CUs

How job scheduling CUs are calculated

Job scheduling CUs track the number of worker-level scheduling events per day. The CU count depends on job type and frequency:

Job type	CUs per execution
Standalone job	1 CU
Non-standalone job	1 CU per scheduled worker
Second-level job (`second_delay`)	1 CU per minute (regardless of actual frequency)
Second-level job (`cron` or `fixed_rate`)	Based on actual scheduling frequency

Example: calculating scheduling CUs

Application A has 2 connected workers and the following enabled jobs:

Job type	Count	Frequency	Daily CU calculation
Standalone	5	Once per day	5 x 1 = 5 CUs
Sharding (non-standalone)	3	Every 30 minutes	3 jobs x 2 workers x 48 runs = 288 CUs
Second-level (`second_delay`)	2	Every 10 seconds	2 jobs x 1,440 minutes = 2,880 CUs

Total scheduling CUs for Application A = 5 + 288 + 2,880 = 3,173 CUs per day

Pricing

Both editions use tiered pricing -- higher usage qualifies for lower per-unit rates. Visit the buy page to view the latest prices.

Note

Ranges use the notation (a, b], where a is excluded and b is included.

Job hosting CU pricing (pay-as-you-go)

Both editions are charged for job hosting CUs at these rates:

Tier	Total hosting CUs per day	Unit price (USD/CU-day)
Free tier	0 - 5	Free
Tier 2	6 - 200	0.02
Tier 3	201 - 1,000	0.01
Tier 4	1,001 - 10,000	0.005
Tier 5	More than 10,000	0.002

Job scheduling CU pricing (pay-as-you-go)

Professional Edition is additionally charged for job scheduling CUs:

Tier	Total scheduling CUs per day	Unit price (USD/CU)
Free tier	0 - 30	Free
Tier 2	31 - 10,000	0.002
Tier 3	10,001 - 50,000	0.001
Tier 4	50,001 - 100,000	0.0005
Tier 5	100,001 - 1,000,000	0.0002
Tier 6	More than 1,000,000	0.0001

Billing example

You have SchedulerX Professional Edition with two applications:

	Application A	Application B
Connected workers	5	2
Enabled standalone jobs	100	50
Enabled non-standalone jobs	10	2
Scheduling runs per day (all jobs)	50	50

Step 1: Calculate daily hosting CUs

Application A: 100 + (10 x 5) = 150
Application B: 50 + (2 x 2) = 54
Total = 204 hosting CUs per day

Step 2: Calculate the hosting fee

Tier	CUs in tier	Rate	Cost
Free tier	5	Free	USD 0
Tier 2	195 (6 to 200)	0.02	USD 3.90
Tier 3	4 (201 to 204)	0.01	USD 0.04
Total			USD 3.94 per day

Step 3: Calculate daily scheduling CUs

Application A standalone: 100 jobs x 1 CU x 50 runs = 5,000
Application A non-standalone: 10 jobs x 5 workers x 50 runs = 2,500
Application B standalone: 50 jobs x 1 CU x 50 runs = 2,500
Application B non-standalone: 2 jobs x 2 workers x 50 runs = 200
Total = 10,200 scheduling CUs per day

Step 4: Calculate the scheduling fee

Tier	CUs in tier	Rate	Cost
Free tier	30	Free	USD 0
Tier 2	9,970 (31 to 10,000)	0.002	USD 19.94
Tier 3	200 (10,001 to 10,200)	0.001	USD 0.20
Total			USD 20.14 per day

Step 5: Calculate the monthly total

Item	Daily	Monthly (x30)
Hosting fee	USD 3.94	USD 118.20
Scheduling fee	USD 20.14	USD 604.20
Total	USD 24.08	USD 722.40