Billing
Use Billing to review charges associated with Smart Studio resources and services. Pair it with Usage when you need to understand which operational workload produced a charge.
Before You Begin
- Your account needs the Billing permission.
- Billing records can be reported after the underlying usage occurs.
- Use the same billing month, region, resource, and service when reconciling entries with Usage.
Billing Overview
The overview shows the total amount and a breakdown by service category.
Select Check Payment when you need to open Alibaba Cloud account assets or manage payment information.
GPU services
GPU-service entries describe compute consumed by deployments or training:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Resource Type | GPU instance or resource specification. |
| Time Used | Billed duration for the resource. |
| Unit Price | Price applied per unit of usage. |
| Source | Infrastructure service that supplied the resource. |
| Amount | Charge calculated for the entry. |
| Currency | Currency used for billing. |
AI services
AI-service entries group supported platform operations such as deployments, fine-tuning, dataset preparation, and evaluation.
Billing Details
Use the details table to filter and reconcile records by billing month, resource, service, source, and region.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Month | Billing period for the record. |
| Resource | Resource type associated with the charge. |
| Service | Smart Studio operation that consumed the resource. |
| Source | Infrastructure or platform source. |
| Region | Region where the resource was consumed. |
| Usage | Quantity or duration billed. |
| Unit Price | Price per billing unit. |
| Amount | Total charge for the record. |
| Currency | Billing currency. |
Investigate an Unexpected Charge
- Record the month, service, resource, region, usage, and amount.
- Open Usage and find the corresponding deployment or training workload.
- Check its runtime and status in Manage Deployments.
- Check cluster activity in GPU Dashboard.
- If the records still cannot be reconciled, contact support with the billing entry identifiers and time period.