Billing overview

Feature

Subscription

Pay-as-you-go

General-purpose resource plan

Payment method

Prepaid. Pay before use.

Postpaid. Billed based on actual usage.

Prepaid. Purchase a resource plan to offset pay-as-you-go bills.

Billable items

Edition (Standard/Advanced/Premium/Ultimate). Each edition includes different features and parameter limits.

API calls × Deduction coefficient × CNY 0.01 per call.

Resource plan tier (10,000 to 50,000,000 calls). Higher tiers offer lower per-unit prices.

Billing cycle

The purchase period of the order. Options include 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 1 year.

Settled every 5 minutes. If you have purchased a resource plan, usage is deducted from the plan first.

Same as pay-as-you-go. Settled and deducted every 5 minutes.

Decision Engine

Supported. You can use the Decision Engine to configure and manage custom policies.

Not supported. Only preset scenario-based risk control services are available.

Not supported. Only offsets pay-as-you-go bills.

Activation method

• Purchase a Fraud Detection subscription

• Activate pay-as-you-go for Fraud Detection

• Purchase a Fraud Detection general-purpose resource plan

Application scenarios

• Ongoing risk control needs.

• Need to configure and manage custom policies using the Decision Engine.

• Stable and large-scale call volume.

• Unclear business risk control requirements.

• Short-term or bursty risk control needs.

• No need to manage custom risk control policies.

• Using pay-as-you-go and want to reduce costs.

• Large call volume. Resource plans offer lower per-unit prices.