Use savings plans

Purchase savings plans

A savings plan is a discount plan that provides savings on the usage of pay-as-you-go resources. You can use pay-as-you-go instances with discounts in exchange for a commitment to use a consistent amount of resources within a one-year or three-year period. The amount of resources is measured in 元/hour. After a savings plan takes effect, the savings plan applies to eligible pay-as-you-go instances to reduce the costs of using the instances. For more information, see Savings plans.

Savings plans come in two types: Before you purchase a savings plan, carefully read the effective rules of the savings plan and select a suitable savings plan based on your business requirements.

• General-purpose savings plans

  This type of savings plans are suitable for all pay-as-you-go elastic container instances regardless of the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance types based on which the elastic container instances are created. This type of savings plans provide greater flexibility than ECS compute savings plans.

• ECS compute savings plans

  The savings plans match ECS instance types to offset fees of only elastic container instances that are created by using the corresponding ECS instance types and billed based on the ECS instance types. This type of savings plans provide greater savings than general-purpose savings plans.

For more information, see Savings Plans in the ECS console. When you purchase a savings plan, you can adopt a plan recommended by the system or select a plan based on your consumption trends.

• If you want to optimize the costs of existing elastic container instances, you can go to the 节省计划购买推荐页面 to obtain the purchase recommendation.

• 如果您还没有创建ECI实例，可以使用节省计划价格计算器获取购买方案，也可以自行计算实例费用，再按折扣计算每小时承诺消费，然后前往节省计划购买页面购买。

For more information, see Purchase and apply savings plans.

View the offset information of a savings plan

After you purchase a savings plan, the system matches the savings plan with elastic container instances to offset fees. You do not need to manually match the resources. You can view the offset information of the savings plan in the 费用与成本.

• View bills of elastic container instances

  On the Bills > Bill Details page, on the Billing Details tab, you can view detailed usage by instance. Instance costs covered by a savings plan do not generate a corresponding bill.

• View the effect of savings plans

  On the Account > Savings Plan page, you can view the overview, usage details, utilization summary, and coverage summary of your savings plans.