Resource plan overview
Purchase resource plans to prepay for Simple Log Service usage. During fee settlement, usage is deducted from your resource plans first. This topic describes the basic information about resource plans.
Resource plans
SLS offers the following resource plans.
If you have both new and legacy resource plans (data transfer, index traffic, and storage plans), legacy plans are applied first.
Resource plan | Description |
New resource plan - Prepaid Plan 2.0 (Recommended) | Offsets the fees of all billable items in Simple Log Service. Note You receive the same quota every month during the validity period. Unused quota is cleared at the end of each month and reset at the start of the next month. |
Legacy resource plan - storage plan | Offsets fees for the Storage - Log Storage billable item only. |
Legacy resource plan - index traffic plan | Offsets fees only for the Index Traffic - Log Index billable item. |
Legacy resource plan - data transfer plan | Offsets fees for the Read/Write Traffic billable item. |
New resource plan - Prepaid Plan 2.0 (Recommended)
The resource plan offsets the fees of all billable items in Simple Log Service. Larger specifications and longer subscription periods provide greater discounts. The system calculates daily SLS usage and deducts it from the resource plan quota. You receive the same quota each month during the validity period. If the monthly quota is exhausted, excess usage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
New resource plans take priority over savings plans. If you have both, new resource plans are applied first.
Both pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes are supported.
SLS offers specification-based discounts for new resource plans with a subscription period of one year or longer. The actual discount is displayed on the purchase page. Pay-as-you-go pricing remains unchanged. The Prepaid Plan 2.0 discount policy applies only to new resource plans purchased for one year or longer.
Alibaba Cloud charges the full subscription fee upfront when you purchase a new resource plan. For example, purchasing a one-year, 100 CU new resource plan incurs the full annual fee on the day of purchase.
The specification unit for a new resource plan is the Cost Unit (CU).
Resource plans support both pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes, where 1 CU = CNY 1.
CU consumption for each billable item equals its pay-as-you-go unit price. For example, read/write traffic on the public cloud costs CNY 0.18 per GB, so offsetting 1 GB consumes 0.18 CUs. See the following tables for details.
Pay-by-feature
Billable item | Public cloud edition | Finance Cloud edition | Alibaba Gov Cloud |
Read/write traffic (per GB) | 0.18 CU | 0.342 CU | 0.36 CU |
Index traffic - Log index (per GB) | 0.35 CU | 0.665 CU | 0.7 CU |
Index traffic - Log index - Query type (per GB) | 0.1 CU | 0.19 CU | 0.2 CU |
Storage usage - Hot log storage (per GB/day) | 0.0115 CU | 0.02185 CU | 0.023 CU |
Storage usage - IA log storage (per GB/day) | 0.005 CU | 0.0095 CU | 0.01 CU |
Storage usage - Archive log storage (per GB/day) | 0.0017 CU | 0.00323 CU | 0.0034 CU |
Index traffic - Time series index (per GB) | 0.2 CU | 0.38 CU | 0.4 CU |
Storage usage - Time series storage (per GB/day) | 0.0035 CU | 0.00665 CU | 0.007 CU |
Data transformation (per GB) | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
Data shipping to OSS Basic (JSON or CSV format) (per GB) | 0.05 CU | 0.095 CU | 0.1 CU |
Data shipping to OSS Pro (Parquet or ORC format) (per GB) | 0.2 CU | 0.38 CU | 0.4 CU |
Data shipping to MaxCompute (per GB) | 0.2 CU | 0.38 CU | 0.4 CU |
Phone call notifications for alerts (per call) | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
Text message notifications for alerts (per message) | 0.05 CU | 0.095 CU | 0.1 CU |
Dedicated SQL (per core × hour) | 0.35 CU | 0.665 CU | 0.7 CU |
Active shard lease (per day) | 0.04 CU | 0.076 CU | 0.08 CU |
Read/write operations (per million operations) | 0.12 CU | 0.228 CU | 0.24 CU |
Internet read traffic (per GB) | 0.8 CU | 1.52 CU | 1.6 CU |
Data transformation (new version) | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
Rule consumption (per GB) | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
Transmission acceleration (per GB) | 1.25 CU | 2.375 CU | 2.5 CU |
Data ingestion processor (per GB) | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
Index traffic - Scan index (per GB) | 0.1 CU | 0.19 CU | 0.2 CU |
AI computing | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
Pay-by-ingested-data
Billable item | Public cloud edition | Finance Cloud edition | Alibaba Gov Cloud |
Raw data writes (per GB) | 0.4 CU | 0.76 CU | 0.8 CU |
Storage usage - Hot log storage (per GB/day) | 0.0115 CU | 0.02185 CU | 0.023 CU |
Storage usage - IA log storage (per GB/day) | 0.005 CU | 0.0095 CU | 0.01 CU |
Storage usage - Archive log storage (per GB/day) | 0.0017 CU | 0.00323 CU | 0.0034 CU |
Internet read traffic (per GB) | 0.8 CU | 1.52 CU | 1.6 CU |
Transmission acceleration (per GB) | 1.25 CU | 2.375 CU | 2.5 CU |
Data ingestion processor (per GB) | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
AI computing | 0.15 CU | 0.285 CU | 0.3 CU |
Legacy resource plan - storage plan
A storage plan offsets only the Storage - Log Storage billable item. The system calculates daily log storage usage. Usage within the plan capacity incurs no fees. Excess usage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
You can purchase multiple storage plans. Multiple plans are applied in purchase order.
Legacy resource plan - index traffic plan
An index traffic plan offsets only the Index Traffic - Log Index billable item. The system calculates daily log index traffic. Traffic within the plan capacity incurs no fees. Excess traffic is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
You can purchase multiple index traffic plans. Multiple plans are applied in purchase order.
Legacy resource plan - data transfer plan
A data transfer plan offsets only the Read/Write Traffic billable item. The system calculates daily read/write traffic. Traffic within the plan capacity incurs no fees. Excess traffic is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
You can purchase multiple data transfer plans. Multiple plans are applied in purchase order.
Comparison of new and legacy resource plans
New resource plan
Offsets the fees of all billable items in Simple Log Service, including storage, index traffic, read/write traffic, requests, data transformation, data shipping, and alert notifications (text message and phone call). New resource plans are easier to manage and provide comprehensive coverage.
Pay-by-feature
Pay-by-ingested-data
Legacy resource plan
Includes storage plans, index traffic plans, and data transfer plans. These single-item plans have limited coverage and are harder to manage.
ImportantStorage plans, index traffic plans, and data transfer plans support only log data (LogStore). They do not support metric data (MetricStore).
