This topic describes how Machine Learning Designer is billed.
Billable resources
The following figure shows how Machine Learning Designer is billed.
Billing methods
The following table describes how the machine learning components are billed.
General machine learning components
General machine learning components can be billed only on a pay-as-you-go basis. The following table describes the billing details.
Billing method | Billing formula | Unit price | Billing duration | Scaling description | Usage notes |
Pay-as-you-go | The consumed resources are calculated based on billable hours.
The following formula shows how to calculate the number of billable hours when you use 2 vCPUs and 5 GB of memory for 1 hour and 30 minutes:
The following formula describes how to calculate the bill amount:
| For more information, see the Billable hour pricing section of this topic. Note You must refer to the bills in the Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI) console to obtain the actual prices. |
| N/A | If you activate PAI together with MaxCompute, when you run the SQL Script, JOIN, UNION, or Filtering and Mapping component, you are charged for the consumed MaxCompute resources. For more information, see Overview. |
Module | Description | Pricing (USD per billable hour) |
Data preprocessing | Includes the following types of components: data preprocessing and feature engineering. | 0.16 |
Data analysis | Includes the following types of components: statistical analysis, machine learning, time series, network analysis, and financials. | 0.21 |
Text analysis | Includes components that use text analysis algorithms. | 0.27 |
Billing examples
For more information about the billing examples, see Billing example of Machine Learning Designer.
Overdue payments
Causes
The balance of your Alibaba Cloud account is insufficient.
Subscription: Your account balance is insufficient to pay for subscription fees.
Pay-as-you-go: Your account balance is less than the bill amount of the previous billing cycle. If the system fails to deduct fees, your account enters the overdue state.
Service suspension
In PAI, bills are generated within 4 hours after the previous billing cycle ends and displayed by using the T + 1 settlement method. If your account enters the overdue state, you are notified by text message.
After your account enters the overdue state, your PAI resources remain available for 24 hours. After 24 hours, your resources are stopped.
To ensure service continuity, we recommend that you top up your account in a timely manner.
View overdue payments
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
On the Account Overview page, view the overdue payments.
Refund policy
Fees incurred in pay-as-you-go mode cannot be refunded.