Billing Overview
Last updated:2026-01-23 17:16:37
Tencent Cloud TDMQ for RocketMQ provides two flexible billing modes: yearly/monthly subscription and pay-as-you-go. The billing rules and applicable scenarios of different billing modes vary. You can choose the optimal billing solution based on your business scale, usage period, and cost budget to achieve the best balance between resource utilization and cost-effectiveness.
Product Series
TDMQ for RocketMQ provides two product series: 5.x clusters and 4.x clusters, to meet the needs of different business scenarios.
Product Series | Minor Version | Sales Status |
5.x cluster | Basic Edition, Pro Edition, and Platinum Edition | Commercialized; payment required for use |
4.x cluster | Exclusive clusters, general clusters, and virtual clusters (discontinued) | Commercialized; payment required for use |
For specific differences, scenarios, and selection recommendations of products in different forms, see Product Series.
Billing mode
TDMQ for RocketMQ supports two billing modes: yearly/monthly subscription (prepaid) and pay-as-you-go (postpaid). The differences between the billing modes are as follows:
Billing Mode | Monthly subscription (Prepaid) | Pay as you go (Postpaid) |
Billing overview | Select specified specifications and prepay for a certain period before you can use the resources. | Select specified specifications to create an instance and pay after using the resources. |
Billing cycle | Billed based on the purchased duration of the order. | Settled by hour, with daily deductions. Usage less than one hour is rounded up to one hour. |
Scenario | Suitable for scenarios with stable business scale and long-term usage, offering discounted pricing to help reduce long-term costs. | Suitable for short-term scenarios such as testing or uncertain traffic peaks, billed based on actual usage to avoid idle resource wastage. |
Changing the billing mode | Only 5.x clusters support changing to the pay-as-you-go billing mode. | Only 5.x clusters support changing to the yearly/monthly subscription billing mode. After you complete testing for a pay-as-you-go instance, if you need to continue using it, you can change the billing mode to yearly/monthly subscription for long-term usage. |
Changing the instance specifications | Supported. | Supported. |
Supported instance type | 5.x clusters, 4.x exclusive clusters, and 4.x general clusters. | 5.x clusters and 4.x virtual clusters. |
Billable Items
For TDMQ for RocketMQ clusters, the billable items for yearly/monthly subscription and pay-as-you-go modes are basically the same. The following parts describe the specific billable items.
Billable Items of 5.x Clusters
The total fees of a 5.x cluster are calculated based on the following formula:
Total cluster fees = Computing configuration fee + Storage configuration fee + Additional topic fee + Public network bandwidth fee = TPS specification x TPS unit price + Elastic TPS size x Unit price of elastic TPS + Storage specification x Storage unit price + Additional topic quantity x Topic unit price + Public network bandwidth size x Unit price of public network bandwidth.
Billable Items of 4.x Exclusive Clusters
The total fees of a TDMQ for RocketMQ 4.x exclusive cluster are calculated based on the following formula:
Total cluster fee = Initial configuration fee + Computing configuration fee + Storage configuration fee + Additional topic fee + Public network bandwidth fee = Initial configuration price + Node quantity x Unit price of the node specifications + Storage specification x Storage unit price + Additional topic quantity x Topic unit price + Public network bandwidth size x Unit price of public network bandwidth.
Billable Items of 4.x General Clusters
The total fees of a TDMQ for RocketMQ 4.x general cluster are calculated based on the following formula:
Total cluster fees = Computing configuration fee + Storage configuration fee + Additional topic fee + Public network bandwidth fee = TPS specification x TPS unit price + Storage specification x Storage unit price + Additional topic quantity x Topic unit price + Public network bandwidth size x Unit price of public network bandwidth.
Billable Items of 4.x Virtual Clusters (Discontinued)
The total fees of a TDMQ for RocketMQ 4.x virtual cluster are calculated based on the following formula:
Total cluster fees = API call fee (Fee for calling the message sending API + Fee for calling the message consumption API) + Topic resource usage fee
Purchase Methods
You can log in to Tencent Cloud TDMQ for RocketMQ console for self-service purchase. For specific operation steps, see Creating a Cluster.
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