Billing

Selling model

Mobi supports a hybrid billing model that combines subscription (upfront) and pay-as-you-go methods.

Different Mobi plans vary in features and include a specific resource quota. These resources include the built-in database, built-in file storage, built-in CDN, integrated resource access calls, and the duration of asynchronous integration stream executions. If your resource usage exceeds the plan's quota, the excess usage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Plan subscription

To subscribe to a Mobi plan, visit the purchase page.

Plan specifications

The following table provides details about the Mobi subscription plans.

Package operations

1. Plan reminder

If you receive a plan reminder when you open Mobi, you can view the detailed plan specifications and select a plan. Click "Purchase Now" in the lower-right corner to purchase a plan, or click "Use Trial Edition" in the lower-left corner. The Trial Edition is currently free for a limited time. You can upgrade to a different plan at any time.

2. View current plan status

In the console, hover over your profile picture to view your current plan. You can also view detailed plan information.

3. Unlock applications

If you created applications before starting a trial or purchasing a plan, those applications are locked by default. Locked applications are in "read-only preview" mode.

After you unlock them, you can resume developing your applications.

4. Plan expiration

If you do not renew your plan after it expires, Mobi automatically unpublishes your applications in the development and production environments. You can renew your current plan to republish your applications. If you do not renew, Mobi will release your plan after one day. After the plan is released, the built-in database is revoked, but the data is retained for 7 days. During this 7-day period, you can manually recover the data. An automated recovery feature will be available in a future release. After your plan is released, you can subscribe to a new plan of a different type.

View plan usage

You can view the usage of all plan resources for the current billing cycle on the Plan Usage page under Space Settings.

Pay-as-you-go billing

Resource usage that exceeds your plan's quota is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. The following items are billable:

The following is a detailed example:

• You subscribe to the Team Edition plan. The billing cycle is from 2025-05-06 to 2025-06-07. The plan includes a monthly resource quota of: 5 GB of built-in database storage, 5 GB of built-in file storage, 5 GB of CDN traffic, and 100,000 integrated resource access calls.

• Example 1: As of 10:00 on May 26, you have used 4.9 GB of CDN traffic.

  • From 10:00 to 11:00 on May 26, you use an additional 0.8 GB of CDN traffic. The pay-as-you-go fee is (0.8 + 4.9 - 5.0) × CNY 0.3 = CNY 0.21.

  • From 11:00 to 12:00 on May 26, you use no CDN traffic. No pay-as-you-go bill is generated.

  • From 12:00 to 13:00 on May 26, you use 4 GB of CDN traffic. The pay-as-you-go fee is 4 × CNY 0.3 = CNY 1.20.

• Example 2: As of 10:00 on May 26, you have made 10,000 integrated resource access calls.

  • From 10:00 to 11:00 on May 26, you make 10,000 integrated resource access calls. This does not exceed the monthly quota, so no bill is generated.

  • From 11:00 to 12:00 on May 26, there were 82,000 invocations of integrated resources, generating a pay-as-you-go bill of (2 + 8.2 - 10) × 1 = CNY 0.2.

• Example 3: As of 10:00 on May 26, your total built-in file storage usage is 4 GB.

  • From 10:00 to 11:00 on May 26, you upload a 1.5 GB file (total storage is 5.5 GB). The pay-as-you-go fee is (5.5 - 5.0) × CNY 3 / 30 / 24 = CNY 0.002083.

  • From 11:00 to 12:00 on May 26, you do not upload any files (total storage still exceeds the quota). The pay-as-you-go fee is (5.5 - 5.0) × CNY 3 / 30 / 24 = CNY 0.002083.

  • From 12:00 to 13:00 on May 26, you delete a file, and the total file storage becomes 4.9 GB. No pay-as-you-go bill is generated.

• Example 4: As of 10:00 on May 26, your total database storage usage is 6.7 GB.

  • From 10:00 to 11:00 on May 26, you do not insert or delete data (total storage still exceeds the quota). The pay-as-you-go fee is (6.7 - 5.0) × CNY 3 / 30 / 24 = CNY 0.007083.

  • From 11:00 to 12:00 on May 26, you delete a table, and the average database storage for the hour drops to 4.8 GB. No pay-as-you-go bill is generated.

Outbound Internet traffic billing

Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) is an Alibaba Cloud service for unified network bandwidth billing. CDT uses a tiered pricing model for Internet traffic, where the unit price decreases as usage increases. Your total cost is the sum of the charges for each pricing tier. The following table lists the traffic tiers and billing methods for the Chinese mainland. For more information about CDT billing, see Internet traffic.

The following is a detailed example:

• You subscribe to the Team Edition plan. The billing cycle is from 2025-05-06 to 2025-06-07.

• Example 1: You use a cumulative 1 GB of outbound Internet traffic through Mobi from May 6 to May 31. You then use a cumulative 2 GB of outbound Internet traffic through Mobi from 00:00 on June 1 to 23:59:59 on June 6.

  • For May, your CDT bill will show 1 GB of Internet traffic from Mobi.

  • For June, your CDT bill will show 2 GB of Internet traffic from Mobi.

For more information about how to view your Internet traffic usage and bills, see Query bills and usage.

If you have an overdue payment for CDT, a prompt appears in the Mobi console. To avoid service interruptions, settle the payment as soon as possible. For more information about overdue payments for CDT, see Overdue payments.