Updated on 2025-04-29 GMT+08:00

Billing Items

Billing

HSS is billed based on the protection quotas you purchase and the value-added services you use. For details, see Table 1.

To quickly learn about the price of HSS protection quotas, visit HSS Pricing Details.

The value-added service is in the open beta test (OBT) phase. For details about the price, see the price displayed on the purchase page when you subscribe to a value-added service.

Table 1 HSS billing items

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Formula

Protection quota

Billed by edition.

  • Yearly/Monthly protection quotas: basic, professional, premium, container, and WTP editions
  • Pay-per-use protection quotas: professional, premium, container, and WTP editions

Yearly/monthly and pay-per-use

Protection quota* x Required duration

For details about the unit price of a protection quota, see HSS Pricing Details.

Pay-per-use container image scan

You can enable pay-per-use image scan to check repository and CI/CD images. It can be enabled for any HSS edition.

Container image scan is billed per successful scan per image. You can enjoy a discount for every scan after the first 10,000 each month.

After you enable pay-per-use container image scan, you can scan up to 10 images for free each month.

Pay-per-use

Unit price of pay-per-use container image scan x Number of successful scans x Number of images

The pay-per-use container image scan is in the OBT phase. The unit price is subject to the price displayed on the sales page.

If you configure advanced settings, such as Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR), you also need to pay for them. For details, see Table 2.

Table 2 Billing items for advanced settings

Billing Item

Description

CBR

You can purchase a backup vault to store backups generated by servers.

You are billed based on the vault capacity. For details, see Cloud Backup Price Details.

Billing Examples

Suppose you purchased a yearly/monthly HSS premium edition on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expires. The following usage periods will be billed:

  • March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59
  • April 08, 2023, 23:59:59 to May 08, 2023, 23:59:59

Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.

The prices in the figure are just examples. The actual prices are those displayed on HSS Pricing Details.

Figure 1 Total price for a yearly/monthly HSS subscription

For pay-per-use billing examples, see Billing Examples.

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