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Security Center is a centralized security solution that defends your cloud assets against threats such as viruses, cyberattacks, and ransomware. It offers multiple editions and billing models so you can build a security system that fits your scenarios and budget.

Get started

New to Security Center? Start with the 7-day free trial of Enterprise Edition to evaluate comprehensive host security capabilities, including vulnerability management and intrusion prevention.

Ready to purchase? Review Plans and add-ons for options, or follow the Purchase procedure.

Overview

  • Billing: Subscription (plan + add-ons) or Pay-as-you-go (per-feature activation). You cannot use both for the same plan; the same account can use subscription for some modules and pay-as-you-go for others.

  • Basic Edition: Automatically available after Alibaba Cloud account verification; permanently free.

  • Enterprise Edition free trial: 7-day trial of the full Enterprise Edition for accounts that have never used the trial or a paid plan; one per account. After the trial expires, configurations and data are retained for 7 days and then automatically deleted.

Quick selection guide

Use case

Recommended solution

Core value

First-time use or evaluation

Activate a 7-day free trial of the Enterprise Edition (see Overview)

Full host security at no cost, including vulnerability management and intrusion prevention.

Hybrid cloud host security

Plan: Enterprise.

Add-ons: Anti-ransomware,Log Analysis,CSPM,Agentic SOC.

Unified policies and controls for cloud and on-premises hosts; centralized governance.

Container security

Plan: Ultimate.

Add-ons: Anti-ransomware,Log Analysis,Container Image Scan,CSPM

Full-stack from host to container; image scanning for shift-left security.

MLPS 2.0 compliance

Plan: Enterprise or Ultimate.

Add-ons: Anti-ransomware,Log Analysis,File Tamper-ProofingAgentic SOC

Vulnerabilities, intrusions, baseline checks; log retention meets MLPS.

Major event support

Plan: Enterprise Edition or Ultimate Edition.

Add-ons: Application Protection,File Tamper-Proofing,Cloud Honeypot

RASP and tamper-proofing for advanced threats and business stability.

Security incident response

Pay-as-you-go: see One-click access policy and billing details for pay-as-you-go services.

For mining malware, viruses, Trojans, website defacement, or ransomware.

Plans and add-ons

Item

Subscription

Pay-as-you-go

Payment model

Single upfront fee for a monthly or yearly term. Fixed cost simplifies budgeting.

Pay only for what you use. No upfront investment.

Fee breakdown

Fees = Edition fee + Value-added service fee (optional).

  • Edition fee: Editions such as Anti-virus,Advanced,Enterprise,Ultimate and Value-added Plan are available. Higher-tier editions include more comprehensive features.

  • Value-added service fee: You can purchase additional value-added services, such as anti-ransomware and Agentic SOC.

Note

For more information about fees, see Billing description.

Fees = Basic service fee + Feature usage fee.

  • Basic service fee: Charged when you enable any pay-as-you-go feature. It includes services such as DingTalk Robot, security reports, and Task Hub (requires purchase or activation of vulnerability fixing).

  • Feature usage fee: You are charged for the specific features you purchase and enable. Each feature can be enabled and billed separately.

Note

For more information about fees, see Billing description.

Best for

Stable, long-term workloads with a fixed budget.

Elastic scaling, short-term projects, or frequently changing demands.

Subscription

  • Editions: You can select from editions such as Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate. Each edition provides different integrated protection and detection capabilities.

  • Add-ons: You can purchase additional add-ons as needed, such as Anti-ransomware and Application Protection (RASP).

Editions

Edition

Description

Fee

Basic

Provides only basic security detection capabilities, such as detecting abnormal server logons, DDoS, common server vulnerabilities, and configuration security issues for some cloud products. This edition does not provide active protection features.

Free

Anti-virus

Detects and removes common host viruses.

CNY 5 per core per month

Advanced

Provides host virus detection, anti-virus scanning, vulnerability detection and fixing, and security reports.

CNY 60 per instance per month

Enterprise

Meets classified protection compliance, host security intrusion prevention, identity authentication, and security audits.

CNY 150 per instance per month

Ultimate

Provides full-stack security protection for hosts, containers, and LINGJUN servers. This includes security capabilities such as K8s threat detection, Container Asset Overview, security alerts, anti-virus scanning, vulnerability detection, Asset Fingerprints, and attack chain analysis.

CNY 150 per instance per month + CNY 5 per core per month

The following table compares the main mitigation capabilities of each edition.

Mitigation capabilities

Basic

Anti-virus

Advanced

Enterprise

Ultimate

Detection for some malware and cloud product threats

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Anti-virus scanning and host intrusion detection

Unsupported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Anti-brute force

Unsupported

Unsupported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Host behavior prevention

Unsupported

Supported

Note

Only blocking processes based on malicious MD5 hashes is supported.

Supported

Supported

Supported

System vulnerability scanning and fixing

Unsupported

Unsupported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Malicious network behavior prevention

Unsupported

Unsupported

Unsupported

Supported

Supported

Attack attribution

Unsupported

Unsupported

Unsupported

Supported

Supported

Application vulnerability detection

Unsupported

Unsupported

Unsupported

Supported

Supported

Baseline check and fixing

Unsupported

Unsupported

Supported

Note

Only weak password checks are supported.

Supported

Supported

Container security

Unsupported

Unsupported

Unsupported

Unsupported

Supported

Add-ons

Anti-ransomware

  • Feature description: Provides anti-ransomware backup and restore capabilities. You can use backup files to recover servers and databases after a ransomware attack.

  • Purchase instructions:

    • The quantity you purchase corresponds to the anti-ransomware capacity. This capacity is determined by the size of the files you need to back up and the backup retention period, not the number of servers.

    • This service is available only in specific regions. You can set the protection data volume as needed. For information about the supported regions, see Anti-ransomware service overview.

    • If you check Set Recommended Policy, the system automatically backs up important file paths on your existing servers regularly. To adjust the policy, go to the anti-ransomware page. For more information, see Manage an anti-ransomware policy.

CSPM

  • Feature description: Provides identity and permission management, automated compliance checks, and cloud product configuration baseline detection. This lets you centrally manage configuration risks across multicloud products.

  • Purchase instructions: Billing is based on the number of quotas. Number of quotas = Number of scans (Number of cloud products × Number of asset instances × Number of check items) + Number of authentications + Number of successful fixes.

    Warning

    The unused quota is cleared at the end of each month. For more information about billing, see Billing description.

Agentic SOC

  • Feature description:

    • Agentic SOC: Supports unified log collection from multicloud environments, multiple accounts, and various products such as Web Application Firewall (WAF), Cloud Firewall, and virtual private cloud (VPC). It provides a closed-loop process for detecting, responding to, and handling security alerts and events. This improves security operations efficiency and helps meet the log audit requirements of MLPS 2.0.

    • Security Operations Agent: An advanced intelligent value-added service based on Agentic SOC. It uses Agentic AI as its core engine and deeply integrates with Alibaba Cloud's native security data and infrastructure. The service uses the autonomous perception, inference, and execution capabilities of agents to independently analyze security events to help you achieve rapid security event response.

  • Purchase instructions:

    • This service uses a modular billing method. The billable items vary based on the options you purchase. For more information about billing, see Detailed billing information.

      • Agentic SOC: Billed separately for Log Ingestion Traffic and Log Storage Capacity. You can purchase them separately as needed.

        Log Ingestion Traffic (GB/day)

        • Purpose: Used for core security operations such as real-time threat detection, attack attribution, and alert analysis. After purchasing, you can use most of the core features of Agentic SOC, such as threat detection, investigation, and response.

        • Capacity estimation:

          • Estimate based on existing logs

            Daily traffic (GB) = Total log storage capacity (GB) / Log retention period (TTL) in days.

            For example, if you have 10,000 GB of logs with a retention period of 90 days, the daily traffic is approximately 10,000 / 90 ≈ 111 GB. We recommend that you purchase 200 GB/day.

          • Estimate based on log generation rate (EPS)

            Daily traffic (GB) = EPS (log entries per second) × 86,400 × Average size per log entry (KB) / 1,024

            • EPS: The number of log entries generated per second.

            • Average size per log entry: Typically ranges from 3 KB to 7 KB.

        Log Storage Capacity (GB)

        • Purpose: Used for long-term storage of logs for queries and audits. This meets the compliance requirement of China's Cybersecurity Law and MLPS 2.0 that logs must be retained for at least 180 days. It also supports historical event analysis.

        • Capacity estimation:

          • Estimate based on the number of servers: We recommend that you configure 120 GB of log storage capacity for each server.

          • Estimate based on existing log analysis capacity: We recommend that you configure a capacity that is three times the purchased capacity of the Security Center - Log Analysis feature.

      • Security Operations Agent: In addition to purchasing Agentic SOC, you must also purchase Intelligent Usage Analysis and Number of Managed Instances.

        • Intelligent Usage Analysis: The analysis usage consumed by Security Operations Agent to analyze alerts for risk events, investigate events, perform traceability and attribution, and generate security reports. The purchase quantity is not automatically populated and must be the same as the quantity for Log Ingestion Traffic.

          Note

          The quota for Intelligent Usage Analysis is cleared daily. If the quota is exceeded, the system automatically applies rate limiting.

        • Number of Managed Instances: Security Operations Agent supports security operations and automated handling across instances. Billing is based on the number of managed instances, and each invoked instance is billed. Instances can include ECS, WAF, ALB, multicloud products, and third-party security vendor products.

          Note

          The quota is cleared monthly. Each instance is counted only once, and duplicates are automatically removed.

    • If you check Access Policy, some log sources from Security Center, Web Application Firewall, Cloud Firewall, and ActionTrail under the current Alibaba Cloud account are automatically connected.

Vulnerability Fixing

  • Feature description: Allows you to fix Linux Software Vulnerability and Windows System Vulnerability on your servers with a single click in the console.

  • Purchase instructions: Enter the number of vulnerability fixes you want to purchase based on the number of vulnerabilities you need to fix each month.

    Note

    The number of vulnerability fixes is the sum of all vulnerabilities fixed on all your servers. For example, if the same vulnerability exists on 10 servers, fixing it with a single click in Security Center consumes 10 fixes.

Container Image Scan

  • Feature description: Scans images for system vulnerabilities, application vulnerabilities, viruses, and malicious samples with a single click, and provides repair suggestions.

  • Purchase instructions:

    • Enter the quantity you want to purchase based on the number of scan quotas you need per month.

      Note

      Scan quota: One quota is consumed when an image digest is scanned for the first time. Subsequent scans of the same digest do not consume quotas. If the image digest changes, a new quota is required.

    • You can purchase this feature only when you select the Advanced,Enterprise Edition,Ultimate Enterprise or Value-added Plan edition.

File Tamper-Proofing

  • Feature description: Monitors website directories in real time and restores tampered files or directories from backups. This ensures that the website information of important systems is not maliciously tampered with.

  • Purchase instructions: Select the quantity based on the number of servers you need to protect.

Malicious File Detection

  • Feature description: Detects hidden malware, webshells, viruses, and other potential risk files in the server file system through deep scanning.

  • Purchase instructions: Set the quantity to the number of files you need to detect each month.

Application Protection (RASP)

  • Feature description: The application protection feature is based on runtime application self-protection (RASP) technology. It provides applications with self-protection capabilities to detect and block attacks in real time.

  • Purchase instructions: We recommend that you set the purchase quantity to the total number of Java processes you plan to protect.

    Note

    For example, if you have two servers, each running three Java applications that require protection, you should purchase six quotas.

Cloud Honeypot

  • Feature description: Provides timely and efficient threat trapping based on attacker behavior. This enhances the detection and protection of core assets in attack and defense scenarios.

  • Purchase instructions: Cloud Honeypot is billed based on the number of probes. You must purchase at least 20 probes and can purchase up to 500 probes.

    Note

    If you need more than 500 probes, contact technical support to scale out.

Security Dashboard

  • Feature description: Provides multiple visualization dashboards to monitor the security posture of your assets from a macro perspective.

  • Purchase instructions: You can purchase this feature only when you select the Advanced, Enterprise Edition, or Ultimate Enterprise edition.

Log Analysis

  • Feature description: Aggregates security logs from cloud assets, including hosts and security events. It provides powerful SQL search and visualization reports to help you perform event retrospection, attack attribution, and compliance audits.

    Important

    If you have also purchased the Log Management pay-as-you-go service, Security Center logs will be stored in two separate locations. To avoid duplicate charges, we recommend that you evaluate your needs and then go to the Security Center console to disable the relevant log delivery switch in the Log Analysis module.

  • Purchase instructions: According to China's Cybersecurity Law, logs must be stored for at least 180 days. We recommend that you configure at least 50 GB of storage capacity for each server.

Pay-as-you-go

  • Default features: When you enable any pay-as-you-go feature of Security Center, the system charges a basic service fee and enables the DingTalk Chatbot, Security Report, and Playbook features by default.

  • Billable features: You can purchase specific protection features separately. All features are billed independently and can be enabled as needed.

Default features

  • DingTalk Chatbot: After you configure a DingTalk robot for notifications, you can receive real-time threat alert messages from Security Center in your DingTalk group.

  • Security Report: You can customize the security data you want to monitor and have it sent to the mailboxes of relevant security personnel regularly. This lets you more effectively monitor your asset security status in real time.

  • Playbook: Provides automated response orchestration capabilities. It orchestrates repetitive tasks in the security event response process into automated handling policies to help you efficiently perform system security hardening.

    Note

    You must first enable or purchase the vulnerability fixing feature.

Billable features

Host and Container Security

Important

If you have subscribed to the Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition, you cannot enable the Host and Container Security pay-as-you-go service.

  • Feature description: Provides comprehensive detection and protection services for host and container assets. After purchasing, you need to attach a protection level to your assets. The protection levels are described as follows:

    Protection level

    Description

    Monthly fee (30-day reference price)

    Unprotected

    Provides only basic security detection capabilities, such as detecting abnormal server logons, DDoS, common server vulnerabilities, and configuration security issues for some cloud products. This edition does not provide active protection features.

    Free

    Antivirus

    Detects and removes common host viruses.

    CNY 7.5 per core per month

    Advanced

    New purchases and changes are no longer supported.

    CNY 90 per instance per month

    Host Protection

    Meets classified protection compliance, host security intrusion prevention, identity authentication, and security audits.

    CNY 225 per instance per month

    Hosts and Container Protection

    Provides full-stack security protection for hosts, containers, and LINGJUN servers. This includes security capabilities such as K8s threat detection, Container Asset Overview, security alerts, anti-virus scanning, vulnerability detection, Asset Fingerprints, and attack chain analysis.

    CNY 225 per instance per month + CNY 7.5 per core per month

    The following table describes the main mitigation capabilities of each protection level.

    Mitigation capabilities

    Unprotected

    Antivirus

    Host Protection

    Hosts and Container Protection

    Detection for some malware and cloud product threats

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Anti-virus scanning and host intrusion detection

    Unsupported

    Supported

    Supported

    Supported

    Anti-brute force

    Unsupported

    Unsupported

    Supported

    Supported

    Host behavior prevention

    Unsupported

    Supported

    Note

    Only blocking processes based on malicious MD5 hashes is supported.

    Supported

    Supported

    Malicious network behavior prevention

    Unsupported

    Unsupported

    Supported

    Supported

    Attack attribution

    Unsupported

    Unsupported

    Supported

    Supported

    Application vulnerability detection

    Unsupported

    Unsupported

    Supported

    Supported

    Container security

    Unsupported

    Unsupported

    Unsupported

    Supported

  • Purchase instructions: After the feature is enabled, you must authorize specific assets for the feature to take effect. You can customize asset attachments during purchase.

    Important

    Default attachment rules:

    • For server assets running container environments (including Alibaba Cloud ACK cluster nodes, Intelligent Computing LINGJUN, and servers connected to self-managed K8s clusters): Host and Container Protection.

    • For other assets: Host Protection.

    • For newly added servers: Host Protection.

CSPM

  • Feature description: Provides identity and permission management, automated compliance checks, and cloud product configuration baseline detection. This lets you centrally manage configuration risks across multicloud products.

  • Purchase instructions: Billing is based on the number of quotas. Number of quotas = Number of scans (Number of cloud products × Number of asset instances × Number of check items) + Number of authentications + Number of successful fixes.

Vulnerability Fixing

  • Feature description: Allows you to fix Linux Software Vulnerability and Windows System Vulnerability on your servers with a single click in the console.

  • Purchase instructions: Enter the number of vulnerability fixes you want to purchase based on the number of vulnerabilities you need to fix each month.

    Note

    The number of vulnerability fixes is the sum of all vulnerabilities fixed on all your servers. For example, if the same vulnerability exists on 10 servers, fixing it with a single click in Security Center consumes 10 fixes.

Agentic SOC

  • Feature description:

    • Agentic SOC: Supports unified log collection from multicloud environments, multiple accounts, and various products such as Web Application Firewall (WAF), Cloud Firewall, and virtual private cloud (VPC). It provides a closed-loop process for detecting, responding to, and handling security alerts and events. This improves security operations efficiency and helps meet the log audit requirements of MLPS 2.0.

    • Security Operations Agent: An advanced intelligent value-added service based on Agentic SOC. It uses Agentic AI as its core engine and deeply integrates with Alibaba Cloud's native security data and infrastructure. The service uses the autonomous perception, inference, and execution capabilities of agents to independently analyze security events to help you achieve rapid security event response.

  • Purchase instructions:

    • The billable items vary based on the options you purchase. For more information about billing, see Detailed billing information.

      • Agentic SOC: Billed on a tiered basis for Log Ingestion Traffic. The higher the usage, the lower the unit price.

        Important

        In pay-as-you-go mode, you cannot purchase Log Storage Capacity. Therefore, you cannot store logs for queries and audits.

      • Security Operations Agent: In addition to the basic charge for Log Ingestion Traffic from Agentic SOC, you are also charged for Intelligent Usage Analysis and Number of Managed Instances.

        • Intelligent Usage Analysis: The analysis usage consumed by Security Operations Agent to analyze alerts for risk events, investigate events, perform traceability and attribution, and generate security reports.

        • Number of Managed Instances: Security Operations Agent supports security operations and automated handling across instances. Billing is based on the number of managed instances, and each invoked instance is billed. Instances can include ECS, WAF, ALB, multicloud products, and third-party security vendor products.

          Note

          Each instance is counted only once, and duplicates are automatically removed.

    • If you check Access Policy, some log sources from Security Center, Web Application Firewall, Cloud Firewall, and ActionTrail under the current Alibaba Cloud account are automatically connected.

Anti-ransomware

File Tamper-Proofing

  • Feature description: File tamper-proofing monitors file system activity in real time, intercepts unauthorized operations such as writes and deletes by non-authorized processes, and records all events for audit. This ensures the integrity of critical files on your servers.

  • Purchase instructions: Billed by actual protection duration (in seconds) multiplied by the number of protected servers. The following are automatically counted:

    • Servers with block rules.

    • Servers with alert rules whose protection edition is below Enterprise Edition or whose protection level is below Host Protection.

Application Protection

  • Feature description: The application protection feature is based on runtime application self-protection (RASP) technology. It provides applications with self-protection capabilities to detect and block attacks in real time.

  • Purchase instructions: After the feature is enabled, you must authorize specific assets for the feature to take effect. You can customize asset connections during purchase.

    Important

    By default, all assets are protected and connected using the slow access method.

Agentless Detection

  • Feature description: Performs lightweight vulnerability scanning and comprehensive risk investigation without installing a client (agent) on the server.

  • Purchase instructions: Billed based on the volume of scanned data.

Serverless Asset Protection

  • Feature description: Provides intrusion detection and vulnerability scanning for Serverless assets such as Elastic Container Instance (ECI). For more information, see Serverless security.

  • Purchase instructions: After the feature is enabled, you must authorize specific assets for the feature to take effect. You can customize asset attachments during purchase.

    Important

    By default, Serverless Asset Protection protection is enabled for all Serverless assets.

Malicious File Detection

  • Feature description: Detects hidden malware, webshells, viruses, and other potential risk files in the server file system through deep scanning.

  • Purchase instructions: Billed based on the number of scanned files. For more information about billing, see Billing description.

Log Management

  • Feature description: Log Management is a log audit and analysis feature based on Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service (SLS). It relies on the rich detection and protection capabilities of Security Center and the product integration capabilities of the Agentic SOC module to provide you with unified log auditing, built-in security reports, SQL-based analysis and traceability, and flexible storage policies.

    Important

    If you have also purchased the Log Analysis subscription service, Security Center logs will be stored in two separate locations. To avoid duplicate charges, we recommend that you evaluate your needs and then go to the Security Center console to disable the relevant log delivery switch in the Log Analysis module.

  • Purchase instructions: You need to configure a log storage region.

Purchase procedure

Subscription

  1. Log on and go to the purchase page

    Log on to your Alibaba Cloud account and go to the Security Center purchase page.

  2. Select an edition

    Important

    If you have already enabled the Host and Container Security pay-as-you-go service, you can only select Value-added Plan.

    • Billing Method: Select Subscription.

    • Protection Scenario: The system automatically recommends an edition and add-ons based on the selected scenario.

    • Edition: For details on the basic protection capabilities of each edition, see Plans and add-ons.

    • Protected Servers: Specify the total number of servers to protect. By default, this displays the Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances and connected third-party servers under your account.

      Note

      This parameter is not required if you select the Anti-virus or Value-added Plan.

    • Cores: The number of vCPUs on your servers. By default, this displays the total number of cores for ECS instances and connected third-party servers under your account.

      Note

      This parameter is required only if you select the Anti-virus Edition or Ultimate Edition.

  3. Configure Protection Quota

    To activate protection, you must assign the purchased quotas to specific servers.

    • Automatic binding (default):

      The system automatically assigns quotas to unprotected servers under your account based on the default policy. You can unbind or rebind them later. For more information, see Manage quotas for Host and Container Security.

    • Custom binding:

      1. Click Custom Quota Binding and select the region where your servers are located.

      2. In the server list, select the servers you want to bind and choose the corresponding version in the Edition column.

        If you select multiple servers, click the Update Version button at the bottom of the list to bind the same protection version to all selected servers.

      3. (Optional) Select Automatically Add New Servers to Security Center. New servers added later will be automatically bound to the version you are purchasing to enable protection.

        Warning

        If you do not select this option, you must manually bind new servers to protect them. For instructions, see Manage quotas for Host and Container Security.

  4. Select add-ons

    Based on your business needs, find the corresponding add-on module, set Purchase or Not to Yes, and complete the configuration.

  5. Confirm and pay

    Read and agree to the Security Center Terms of Service, then click Order Now and complete the payment.

  6. View your purchased service

    After the purchase is complete, log on to the console. You can view your current service in the Overview page Subscription section.

Pay-as-you-go

  1. Log on and go to the purchase page

    Log on to your Alibaba Cloud account and go to the Security Center purchase page.

  2. Select services

    Based on your business needs, find the corresponding add-on module, set Purchase or Not to Yes, and complete the configuration.

  3. Quota and binding logic

    For some services to take effect, you must assign their quota to specific assets after you enable them. The configuration steps are as follows:

    • Host and Container Security: Supports custom binding of host assets. Follow these steps:

      Important

      If you do not configure this, the system binds host assets according to the default rules:

      • Server assets that run container environments, including Alibaba Cloud ACK cluster nodes, Intelligent Computing LINGJUN, and servers connected to self-managed K8s clusters: Host and Container Protection.

      • All other assets: Host Protection.

      • New servers added later: Host Protection.

      1. On the purchase page, click Custom Quota Binding and select the region where your servers are located.

      2. In the server list, select the servers you want to bind and choose the corresponding protection level in the Protection Level column.

        After you select multiple servers, click Change Protection Level to modify the protection level for all of them at once.

      3. In the Automatically Add New Servers to Security Center section, set the protection level that will be automatically bound to new servers.

    • Serverless Asset Protection: Supports custom binding of assets. Follow these steps:

      Important

      If you do not configure this, the system enables Serverless Asset Protection protection for all serverless assets by default.

      1. Click Custom Quota Binding, select the region where your servers are located, and select the corresponding assets.

      2. Select Automatically Add New Assets to automatically enable Serverless Asset Protection protection for new serverless assets added later.

        Warning

        If you do not select this option, you must manually bind new serverless assets. Otherwise, they will not be protected by Security Center. For instructions, see Bind or unbind authorized assets.

    • Application Protection: Supports custom binding of assets. Follow these steps:

      Important
      • If you do not configure this, the system protects all assets by default and uses the slow on boarding method.

      • You can also configure this after purchase by logging on to the console and going to Application Protection > Application Configurations and then Access Management as needed.

      1. Click Custom Quota Binding and select the region where your servers are located.

      2. Select the corresponding assets and click OK.

  4. Confirm and pay

    Read and agree to the Security Center Terms of Service, then click Order Now and complete the payment.

  5. View your purchased service

    After the purchase is complete, log on to the console. You can view your current service in the Overview page Pay-as-you-go section.

Limitations

Billing model restrictions

  • Subscription: Each Alibaba Cloud account can only purchase one edition. You can upgrade to a higher edition at any time.

  • Pay-as-you-go: You can select different protection levels for different assets and purchase multiple add-ons simultaneously.

  • Switching billing model: To change the billing model for a feature, you must first unsubscribe from or close the current billing service, then activate the other model.

Feature billing restrictions

  • Exclusivity of features

    • Subscription editions (Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, Ultimate) and the pay-as-you-go Host and Container Security service are mutually exclusive. You can only choose one; they cannot be purchased or stacked simultaneously.

    • Subscription add-ons (such as Agentic SOC) and the equivalent pay-as-you-go features cannot be activated simultaneously.

  • Flexibility across modules

    The same account can select different billing models for different feature modules.

    Note

    For example, "Vulnerability remediation" uses subscription, while "Agentic SOC" uses pay-as-you-go.

Edition restrictions (container protection)

Server assets running in container environments (including ACK cluster nodes, self-managed K8s, Lingjun assets, etc.) require a specific edition to obtain protection capabilities. The restrictions are as follows:

  • Subscription: You must purchase Ultimate, and the asset must be bound to the Ultimate edition.

  • Pay-as-you-go: You must purchase Host and Container Security, and the asset must be bound to the Hosts and Container Protection protection level.

Edition change restrictions

Starting from September 11, 2025, Security Center will no longer support new purchases or changes to the Advanced Edition. Existing Advanced Edition users are not affected.

Unsubscribe

  • Subscription service

    • Unsubscribe from add-ons

      On the Overview page, in the Subscription section, click Change > Downgrade. On the order upgrade/downgrade page, on the Order Downgrade tab, set Purchase or Not to No for the relevant service. For more information, see Downgrade.

      Important

      The specific refund amount is subject to the amount displayed on the downgrade page. For information on where your refund will be sent, see Refund destinations.

    • Unsubscribe from all services

      Go to the Unsubscription Management page to submit a self-service unsubscription request. For more information, see Refund policy.

      You can also contact technical support to unsubscribe from the Security Center instance.

  • Pay-as-you-go

    On the Overview page of the Security Center console, in the Pay-as-you-go section, turn off the switch for the relevant service. Once disabled, the service will no longer incur charges.

FAQ

Billing-related questions

  • Do subscription and pay-as-you-go result in duplicate charges?

    No. Security Center has a built-in anti-duplicate-billing mechanism:

    • Single billing principle: Each add-on supports only one billing model at a time. See Exclusivity of features.

    • Automatic switching: If you purchase a subscription plan that includes default features overlapping with existing pay-as-you-go services, the system automatically disables the pay-as-you-go counterpart and uses the subscription.

      Note

      For example, if you already have vulnerability remediation pay-as-you-go and then purchase Advanced Edition or above, Security Center automatically disables the pay-as-you-go mode, and fixing vulnerabilities will no longer incur charges.

  • Can I convert pay-as-you-go to subscription?

    No. Pay-as-you-go services cannot be directly converted to subscription. First close the relevant services, then follow the steps for purchasing subscription.

  • Can I use subscription and pay-as-you-go together?

    Yes. The same account supports mixed use of both billing models. You can flexibly combine plans based on asset importance and lifecycle.

  • Why am I still charged after the trial resource package is used up?

    Trial resource packages only cover specific billing items and quotas. After the package is exhausted, the corresponding pay-as-you-go feature continues to run and incur charges. To avoid unexpected charges:

  • How do I view Security Center bills?

    You can view Security Center charges as follows:

    1. Log on to the Bill Details page.

    2. In the filter, set Product Name to Security Center to view usage and charges for each billing item.

    If your bill includes multiple products, you can also check resource package consumption details on the Resource Package Usage Query page.

  • Why is the order amount higher than the listed price?

    The total order price is composed of multiple parts. The base price typically refers to the monthly fee for a single server. The total is affected by:

    • Number of protected assets: The fee is multiplied by the total number of protected servers under your account (including cloud ECS and non-Alibaba Cloud servers with the agent installed).

    • Add-on options: The system may pre-select add-ons such as log analysis and anti-ransomware. If you don't need them, set their capacity to 0 before placing the order.

Free services and trial

  • How do I get free services?

    • Basic Edition: Automatically activated after completing Alibaba Cloud account real-name verification.

    • Enterprise Edition free trial: Start a 7-day free trial.

  • What are the differences between the Basic Edition and the Enterprise Edition free trial?

    Feature

    Basic Edition

    Enterprise Edition free trial

    Eligible accounts

    All Alibaba Cloud accounts that have completed real-name verification.

    Accounts that have never used the Enterprise Edition trial or a paid plan.

    Protection capabilities

    Permanent basic security capabilities.

    Short-term experience of full Enterprise Edition features.

    Duration

    Permanent.

    7 days.

    Core capabilities

    Abnormal logon detection, mining/DDoS trojans, mainstream vulnerability scanning, etc.

    Full Enterprise Edition capabilities including virus scanning, advanced threat detection, vulnerability remediation, etc.

    Acquisition restrictions

    Automatically activated, no application needed.

    Each account is eligible for only one trial; cannot be repeated.

  • Can I cancel the Enterprise Edition free trial, and can I reapply?

    Yes. On the Overview page, click Release Trial to cancel the free trial. Each Alibaba Cloud account is eligible for only one free trial; after cancellation, you will not be able to trial Security Center again.

  • Will configurations be retained after the Enterprise Edition trial expires?

    After the trial expires, related feature configurations and data are retained for 7 days and then automatically cleared.

  • Why don't I see the free trial option on the Overview page?

    • Reason 1: Your account has already applied for the 7-day free trial.

    • Reason 2: Your account has already purchased a paid edition.