This document introduces product pricing, billing rules, and expiration reminders.

On-demand billing

Baidu Elasticsearch products are charged by the service time (minute), according to the instance model configuration and number of the instances you select. The specific billing rules are as follows:

• In the case of being paid by the minute, less than 1 minute is counted as 1 minute.
• Start billing when the order is submitted, and the cluster instance has been assigned.
• Release all resources and stop billing as soon as the cluster gets deleted.
• When stopping the cluster, the fee is still charged because the resources have not been released. To stop charging, you must delete the cluster and release the resources.
• Currently, there is no billing for external network traffic.

Insufficient balance and arrears

• Reminder of insufficient balance： - Judge whether your account balance, including available vouchers, is sufficient to pay for the next 3 days in accordance with your bill amount in the last 3 days. If not, the system sends a renewal reminder to you. - Judge whether your account balance, including available vouchers, is sufficient to pay the bill for 1 day according to your billing amount of the latest 1 day. If insufficient, the system sends the renewal reminder to you.
• Handling with the arrears： - When your account balance is zero, and you cannot pay the Baidu Elasticsearch service bill, you are in arrears, and the system sends a renewal reminder. - The service is stopped immediately after arrears, then the system sends you a renewal reminder for stopping service. In order not to affect service, make sure that the amount in your account is sufficient when using the Baidu Elasticsearch service. - After 7 days of being in arrears, the system deletes the service data, and release the data if you do not recharge it.

Postpaid billing formula

Fee = unit price x number of nodes x service time

Postpaid price

Prepaid Price