Savings plans
Savings Plans is a discount plan that offers lower pay as you go pricing, in exchange, you need to prepay the committed usage amount.
For example: you commit to spending ¥1,000 per year and upfront for 1 year, your API price will be calculated at a 30% discount, i.e. the price for real-time weather is reduced from ¥0.0007 per request to ¥0.00049 per request. Or it can be understood that you paid ¥1,000 for about 1.6 million requests by default and will get about 2.5 million requests with purchasing a Savings plan.
Commitment Amount
The commitment amount is the amount you commit to use within one year, which will expire after 1 year or when it is used up, refer to Expiration. The bill amount for API requests will be paid using the commitment amount in priority.
Commitment Terms
The commitment term is the total duration to be prepaid, now commitment term supports 1-year.
Saving Rate
The saving rate is a discount rate for API pricing.
For example: After purchasing a 1-year savings plan, the cost of a single request for real-time weather is: ¥0.0007 x 0.7 savings rate = ¥0.00049
| Commitment Terms | Saving Rate |
|---|---|
| 1-year | 0.7 |
Purchase
- Go to Console - Savings plans
- Enter the committed amount
- Select Effective Time
- Click “Next”
- Review purchase information and click the “Create” button
Please make the payment as soon as possible when the savings plan is successfully created. Overdue payment will be canceled.
You can cancel any unpaid savings plan at any time before payment.
Price Calculator
Using the Price Calculator will quickly help you calculate the Savings plans you need to purchase.
Expiration
The committed amount in a Savings plan is valid for one year or until it is fully utilized within the year. After the savings plan expires, any unused amount will be voided, please refer to the following example.
Assumptions: A savings plan(1-year) is purchased on March 20, 2022
| utilized within 1 year | Not utilized within 1 year |
|---|---|
| At 2022-12-30 23:00, the full committed amount is fully utilized, and requests from the next hour will no longer enjoy the savings plan discount. | At 2023-03-19 23:59:59, there is a remaining commitment amount ¥234 in the savings plan, then from 2023-03-20, the remaining ¥234 will be voided and can no longer be used. |
Effective
When purchasing a savings plan, you can choose when it will take effect:
Upon payment
When you create a savings plan successfully, you have up to 24 hours to make a payment, and the savings plan takes effect immediately after payment.
Specified time
When you create a savings plan successfully and complete payment, the savings plan will take effect at the time you specify.
Again, savings plans that are not paid by the payment date will be automatically canceled.
Multiple Savings plans
You can purchase multiple savings plans, and multiple savings plans will be used in the order of purchase time.