Billing Overview
Last updated: 2025-11-03 15:47:29
Tencent Cloud Message Queue TDMQ for CKafka provides two flexible billing modes: annual and monthly packages, and hourly billing. Different billing modes have distinct billing rules and use cases. You can select the optimal billing plan according to business scale, usage cycle, and cost budget to achieve the best balance between resource usage rate and cost-effectiveness.
Product series
TDMQ for CKafka provides Serverful and Serverless product series to meet the needs of different business scenarios.
<Product Series> | Minor Version | Sales Status |
Serverful | Professional Edition, Advanced Edition, Standard Version (not available for sale) | General Availability, pay-per-use |
Serverless | / | In public beta, you can submit a ticket to apply for free use. The product will require payment after commercialization. |
For differences, usage scenarios, and selection suggestions of products in different forms, refer to Product Series Introduction.
Billing Mode
TDMQ CKafka Serverful series supports two billing modes: monthly subscription (prepaid) and pay-as-you-go (postpaid). The variations between billing modes are as follows:
Billing Mode | Monthly Subscription (Prepaid) | Hourly Billing (Postpaid) |
Billing Overview | Select a specification, pay in advance for a certain duration to use resources | Select a specification to create an instance, use resources first and pay later |
Billing Cycle | Charge by the purchase cycle of the order | Billed hourly, charged daily, with less than an hour counted as one hour |
Applicable Scenarios | Suitable for scenarios with stable business scale and long-term usage, offering pricing discounts to reduce long-term costs. | Suitable for testing or short-term situations with uncertain peak traffic, billed by actual usage to avoid resource idling and waste |
Change billing mode | Changing to pay-as-you-go billing mode is not supported. | Supports changing to monthly subscription After the test is completed for the pay-as-you-go instance, if you need to continue to use it, you can convert it to a monthly subscription instance for long-term usage. |
Changing instance specifications | Supported. | Supported. |
Supported Instance Types | Professional Edition, Advanced Edition | Professional Edition |
Billing Items
The billing items for the TDMQ CKafka Serverful series in monthly subscription and hourly billing modes are basically the same. Below is the billing item description.
Calculating Cost
You can use the price calculator we provide to estimate instance costs in advance. This tool supports configuring instance specifications, storage capacity, network bandwidth, and parameters such as based on actual business needs, and generates a detailed budget list to help you perform cost planning and budget management more accurately.
Purchase Methods
You can login to Tencent Cloud CKafka console for self-purchase. For the directions, see Creating Instance.
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