Billing¶

Plan Instructions¶

There are three plans of Guance: Experience Plan, Commercial Plan and Deployment Plan.

• The Experience Plan and Commercial Plan provided by the public cloud all adopt the billing method of pay-per-use, and there is no difference in core functions.

  • Experience Plan of the available data size is limited, Commercial Plan of users have access to a larger amount of data and more flexible data storage time.

• Private cloud Deployment Plan also provides Community Plan (i.e. Experience Plan) and Commercial Plan.

  • Commercial Plan can flexibly choose pay-per-use, subscription system, license system and other billing methods.

Billing Center¶

At present, there are two sets of account systems that operate independently and have related statistical data, which jointly realize the usage billing and expense settlement process for Commercial Plan users:

• Guance studio account, which can count the data volume, access scale and bill details of the current workspace and synchronize to the designated Billing Center account.
• Guance Billing Center account, which can be bound through workspace ID to realize unified expense management at workspace level and provide a variety of expense settlement methods for you to choose from.

Usage Billing Method¶

The Commercial Plan users of the Guance workspace adopt the billing method of pay-per-use, and comprehensively calculate the current cost situation through different latitudes such as billing cycle, billing item, billing price and billing mode.

The owner and administrator of the workspace can view the data access of the workspace and the corresponding bill details in the Guance Studio > Billing module; For other member roles, the Billing module is temporarily closed.

Expense Settlement Method¶

After calculating the bill details of the current workspace, Guance studio will push them to the bound Guance Billing Center account for subsequent expense settlement process.

At present, it supports various settlement methods such as observing cloud Billing Center accounts and cloud accounts. Cloud account settlement includes Alibaba Cloud account and AWS account settlement. In the cloud account settlement mode, it supports the merger of cloud bills from multiple sites into one cloud account for settlement.