---
title: "Use committed billing for a load balancer"
description: "Launch an E2E load balancer on a committed plan or convert an hourly one, and choose what happens when the committed period ends."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "load-balancer"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/load-balancer/how-to/use-committed-billing/"
topic: ["operate"]
relationships: {"requires":["/myaccount/load-balancer/how-to/create-an-application-load-balancer/"]}
---

# Use committed billing for a load balancer

A committed plan charges a load balancer for a fixed period up front, in place of the hourly price.
Choose it for a load balancer you plan to keep for the whole period. You can launch a load balancer
on a committed plan, or convert an hourly one later, and you choose what happens when the period
ends. Every plan has committed periods of 90, 183, and 365 days, listed with the plan and its
prices. For current prices, see [E2E's pricing page](https://www.e2enetworks.com/pricing).

A committed load balancer keeps its plan for the committed period. Choose the plan you need before
you commit. To upgrade, use hourly billing; see
[Power off, start, or upgrade a load balancer](/myaccount/load-balancer/how-to/power-off-start-or-upgrade/#upgrade-the-plan).

## Before you begin

- Your account has the infra credits for the full committed price, or is billed after use. The full
  price for the period is deducted from your infra credits, or added to your bill, when you commit.
- You plan to keep the load balancer for the whole period. If you delete it early, the full
  committed price stays charged.
- Your role in the project has the create permission for **Load Balancers** to launch, or the update
  permission to convert or change the settings.

## Launch on a committed plan

1. On the create flow's **Plan** step, click the plan, and under
   **---Choose Hourly / Committed LB---**, choose one of its committed options. See
   [Create an Application Load Balancer](/myaccount/load-balancer/how-to/create-an-application-load-balancer/).
2. Finish the other steps, and click **Launch Load Balancer** on **Summary**.
3. In **Committed LB Confirmation**, tick the box that begins
   **I understand that on creation of this committed Load Balancer**. By ticking it, you agree to
   keep the load balancer for the whole committed period, until its end date.
4. Choose what happens at the end of the period. To decide, see
   [Choose what happens when the period ends](#choose-what-happens-when-the-period-ends).
   - **Auto-renew the committed period** starts a new committed period when this one ends.
   - **Switch to hourly billing** moves the load balancer to the plan's hourly price when the
     period ends.
5. Click **Proceed**, which is available once the box is ticked. MyAccount creates the load
   balancer and returns you to the **Load Balancers** list.

You can change the end-of-period choice later, and add auto deletion, in **Committed LB settings**;
see [Choose what happens when the period ends](#choose-what-happens-when-the-period-ends).

## Convert an hourly load balancer

**Convert to Committed** is in the **Actions** menu of an hourly load balancer whose plan has
committed options.

1. In MyAccount, under **Compute**, click **Load Balancers**. In the load balancer's row, open
   **Actions**, and click **Convert to Committed**.
2. In **Committed Load Balancer Conversion**, pick a committed option.
3. Tick the agreement that the full cost is deducted from your infra credits or billed.
4. Click **Convert**.

**Convert** is available once your infra credits cover the conversion. Buy more infra credits if
they fall short.

The load balancer is now committed, set to renew at the end of the period. To change that, see
[Choose what happens when the period ends](#choose-what-happens-when-the-period-ends).

## Choose what happens when the period ends

To keep the public IP when the load balancer is deleted at the end of the period, reserve it first;
see
[Manage a load balancer's network and security groups](/myaccount/load-balancer/how-to/manage-network-and-security-groups/#reserve-the-public-ip).

1. In the load balancer's row, open **Actions**, and click **Committed LB settings**.
2. In **Committed Load Balancer Settings**, choose one:
   - **Auto-renew the committed period** starts a new period, on the committed option you pick.
     Choose it to keep the load balancer at the committed price.
   - **Apply hourly billing as per the base rate of the plan** moves it to hourly billing. Choose
     it to keep using the load balancer after the period without a new commitment.
   - **Auto deletion of this committed node** deletes the load balancer when the period ends.
     Choose it only when you are sure you will no longer need the load balancer.
3. Click **Update Settings**.

## Check the committed plan

On the load balancer's **Info** tab, **Active Committed Plan** shows the committed option,
**Committed Period Ends On** the end date, and **Committed Node Settings** what happens then.

The amount charged for the period stays as it is, even if you delete the load balancer early; see
[Delete a load balancer](/myaccount/load-balancer/how-to/delete-a-load-balancer/).