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Application of savings plans

Application of savings plans

Application rules

The Savings Plan supports offsetting billing items corresponding to pay-as-you-go bills. Deduction is applicable when, at the end of the consumption period of a pay-as-you-go bill, the Savings Plan quota period is either in "Active" status, or in "Pending" status that supports pre-deduction.

For example, you purchased a 3‑month commitment Savings Plan on September 5th, expiring on December 5th. The three corresponding commitment terms are: September 5th – October 5th, October 6th – November 5th, November 6th – December 5th.

For the second commitment term, the validity period of the carry-over ineligible portion is October 6th – November 5th, and the validity period of the carry-over eligible portion is October 6th – December 5th. For the third commitment term (the final term of the order), the validity period of all amount is November 6th – December 5th.

Bills with usage period end times between November 6th and December 5th may be deducted using the carry-over eligible portion from the second commitment term and all amount from the third commitment term. Examples include hourly bills from 14:00–15:00 on November 8th, and monthly bills for November 1st – 30th.

Monthly bills for consumption during December 1st – 31st are not eligible for deduction, as no valid Savings Plan applies.

Savings plans do not apply to spot Instances or elastic scheduled instances.

Savings plans deduction discount: Take the lower of the contract price discount and the default deduction discount of the savings plan; special event discounts are not eligible for the savings plan deduction.

Financial hosting:

The charges of pay-as-you-go instances under a Sub-Account can be offset by the savings plans of the Sub-Account or the Master Account. However, the savings plans of the Sub-Account are preferred.

The charges of pay-as-you-go instances under a Master Account can only be offset by the savings plans of the Master Account.

Resell:

End users from a reseller cannot purchase savings plans.

Resellers can purchase savings plans to offset the charges of their own pay-as-you-go instances, but not those of their end users.

Deduction order

If savings plans, resource packages, reserved instance vouchers, reserved capacity plans, and coupons exist at the same time, they are deducted in the following order: reserved instances or reserved storage capacities > resource packages > savings plans > coupons.

If multiple savings plans are eligible to offset bills, for multiple billing items of the same product, the system determines their priorities as follows:

In the financial hosting scenario, the sub-account’s bills are first deducted with the sub-account’s own savings plans; any excess amount can then be further deducted with the master account’s savings plans.

Savings plans that expire sooner are preferentially applied. The expiration time of a periodic savings plan refers to the end of its current carry-over period.

Combinations of savings plans and pay-as-you-go bills that yield higher savings rates are preferentially applied.

For combinations that yield the same savings rate, savings plans with higher discount percentages are preferentially applied.

A savings plan is applied in the preceding order until all pay-as-you-go charges are covered or the committed spend of the savings plan is used up. Pay-as-you-go charges not covered by savings plans are billed and settled in standard pay-as-you-go mode.

Last updated: 2026.07.15 22:26:10