---
title: "Choose a committed plan"
description: "Pay for a Model Endpoint with a committed savings plan, confirm the terms, choose what happens when the term ends, and change that choice later."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "model-endpoints"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/model-endpoints/how-to/choose-a-committed-plan/"
topic: ["create"]
---

# Choose a committed plan

Choose a committed plan for an endpoint that runs steadily for a long time. You commit to a fixed term and pay for it up front. An endpoint on a **Committed** plan costs the same whether it is busy or idle, so use an hourly plan for development.

## Before you begin

- Permission to create model endpoints in the project. A Member needs a policy that grants create permission for the Inference service.
- Credit for the full committed price. A prepaid account needs it in full before the endpoint is created. For rates, see [E2E's pricing page](https://www.e2enetworks.com/pricing).
- At least one worker, the minimum for a committed endpoint.

## Choose the plan

1. On the create form, open **Select Computing Resource** and choose a machine and a size under **Configuration**.
2. Under **Instance Pricing**, choose a savings plan, such as **1 Month Savings Plan** or **3 Month Savings Plan**, instead of **On-Demand**. For the longer terms, select **Show more pricing**.
3. Set the workers. The committed workers are the minimum workers you set when you create the endpoint.
4. Select **Deploy Endpoint**. You confirm the terms in **Committed Plan Confirmation** before TIR creates anything.

## Confirm the terms

The cost is the plan's price times the committed workers. Tick the box to agree that:

- The cost is charged up front for the term.
- You cannot end the endpoint before the end date.
- If you stop early, you get no refund for the remaining days. The full amount is non-refundable once it is deducted.

Then choose what happens when the term ends, and select **Proceed**:

- **Auto renewal of this committed plan** starts a new term of the same plan.
- **Auto start hourly billing for this machine** moves the endpoint to the hourly rate of the same machine.
- **Auto deletion of this committed machine** deletes the endpoint.

## What a committed endpoint does

- It runs for its whole term. You can stop only an hourly endpoint.
- It always keeps at least its committed workers, and cannot scale below them. Workers above that count run, and are billed, at the hourly rate of the same machine.
- Deleting it ends it at once, and the committed charge, already paid for the whole term, is not refunded.

## Check the plan

Under **Plan** on the endpoint's **Overview**, the **Plan type** is **Committed**, **Committed Upto** is the end date, and **Renewal Preference** is the end-of-term choice: **Auto Renewal**, **Convert to Hourly Plan**, or **Auto Delete**.

## Change what happens at the end

Open **Actions** and select **Update Inference**, then **Update Endpoint**. The confirmation opens again with your saved choice selected. Choose another option and select **Proceed**. The update form leaves out the plan section for a committed endpoint, because you cannot change the plan there.

For problems with stopping or scaling a committed endpoint, see [Troubleshooting Model Endpoints](/tir/model-endpoints/troubleshooting/model-endpoints/). For the questions people ask about billing, see the [Model Endpoints FAQ](/tir/model-endpoints/faq/).