Service plan

A service plan is the cost of using a software product for Marketplace users. A service plan must include:

• Product asking price, i.e., the amount net of VAT the publisher wants to get for their product.
• Fee in the amount of 20% of the product asking price that is charged by Yandex Cloud.
• VAT.

If payment is at the end of a billing cycle, Yandex Cloud will deduct the fee and VAT from the rate if your legal entity does not pay VAT.

Different service plans are available for different types of products.

• Free: The product license is provided free of charge.
• BYOL: You can run software on the Yandex Cloud infrastructure using licenses purchased from third-party providers (sellers).
• PAYG: Billing is per second based on VM usage parameters or application metrics defined by the product publisher. The following metrics are possible:
  • Cores per hour: Every second of product use is charged at the rate multiplied by the number of VM cores with the RUNNING status and divided by 3,600.
  • VM per hour: You are charged for product usage on VMs with the RUNNING status. The per-second cost is calculated as the specified value divided by 3,600.
  • RAM per hour: You are charged for RAM usage by VMs with the RUNNING status. The per-second cost is calculated as the specified value divided by 3,600.
  • Other pricing system: Billing is based on application metrics specified by the publisher. For more information, see Create a custom service plan.
• Subscription: Product subscription.
  To set up a subscription, create a subscription template. To do this, select either the PAYG or the Subscription service plan and click Create subscription template at the bottom of the page.
  If you create a subscription within the PAYG service plan, the user will automatically switch to this plan as soon as they unlink the subscription from a resource or as soon as the subscription expires.
  If you create a subscription within the Subscription service plan, you will need to set up integration with the License Manager API. In this case, the product will only be available under the subscription and, when it expires, it will be disabled. You can learn more about subscriptions here.

The table below demonstrates compatibility between different product types and service plans.