Billing
ARMS Synthetic Monitoring offers the Expert Edition with pay-as-you-go, subscription, and resource plan billing methods.
Starting from June 1, 2024, ARMS Synthetic Monitoring no longer supports activating pay-as-you-go billing or purchasing subscription resources. For more information, see Product Change: Discontinuation of Synthetic Monitoring Activation.
Billing editions
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Billing edition |
Billing method |
Billable item |
Description |
Details |
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Expert Edition |
Pay-as-you-go |
Number of network probes |
You are billed for your actual usage. A bill is generated for each billing cycle, and the fees are deducted from your account. Synthetic Monitoring provides a monthly free quota of 3,000 probes for PC-side Internet Data Center (IDC) and Lastmile monitoring points. Note
The free quota cannot be used for mobile monitoring points or Elastic Compute Service (ECS) host monitoring. |
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Subscription |
Number of network probes |
You pay for resources before you use them. Synthetic Monitoring offers various subscription instance types for PC-side monitoring points. Note
Subscription plans can only be used for PC-side monitoring points. They cannot be used for mobile or ECS host monitoring points. |
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Resource plan |
Number of network probes |
Resource plans let you use the same amount of resources at a lower price. |
Billing cycle
ARMS uses a daily billing cycle. Starting at 00:00 each day, ARMS calculates the previous day's resource consumption. Bills are typically generated the following morning, and fees are automatically deducted from your account if your balance is sufficient. You can view your bills on the Expenses and Costs page and check your resource usage in the ARMS console. For more information, see Resource usage and bills.
Bill generation may be delayed. The actual generation time is subject to the system.