# Pricing for reserved queues
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With reserved queues, you pay for the capacity in the queue regardless of whether you use it. When you set up a reserved queue, you make a 12-month commitment to a pricing plan. The pricing plan specifies a fixed number of reserved transcode slots (RTS). For more information, see [MediaConvert Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert/pricing/).

**Important**  
After you purchase your RTS, you can't cancel your 12-month commitment.

You can purchase additional capacity for a reserved queue that already has RTS. To purchase additional capacity, you extend your existing commitment with a new 12-month commitment for a larger number of RTS. The new commitment begins when you purchase the additional capacity. You can't decrease the number of RTS in your reserved queue.

When your pricing plan term expires, your reserved queue persists. You can still send jobs to it, but AWS Elemental MediaConvert doesn't run them.

**About Auto Renew**  
You can set your pricing plan to auto renew. When your pricing plan term ends, AWS Elemental MediaConvert checks the auto renew status. If auto renew is enabled at that time, you automatically commit to another 12-month term for the same number of RTS at the same price. You can change the auto renew status at any time.

You can choose auto renew when you set up your queue. Anytime after that, you can change the auto renew status on the **Edit** page for the queue. For more information, see [Creating a reserved queue](creating-a-reserved-queue.md) and [Editing a reserved queue](editing-reserved-queues.md).

**About billing when jobs hop queues**  
When you set up [queue hopping](setting-up-queue-hopping-to-avoid-long-waits.md) between a reserved queue and an on-demand queue, MediaConvert bills you according to the queue that it runs your job from. That is, if the job runs from your reserved queue, MediaConvert doesn't bill you for the job. If the job runs from your on-demand queue, MediaConvert bills you for the job at the on-demand rate.