# Purchasing a custom Savings Plan commitment
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You can purchase a Savings Plan with a commitment amount that is different from the recommended commitment. Purchase a commitment of your choice on the **Purchase Savings Plans** page.<a name="ce-sp-compute-howto"></a>

**To purchase a Savings Plan**

1. Open the Billing and Cost Management console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/).

1. In the navigation pane, under **Savings Plans**, choose **Purchase Savings Plans**.

1. Under **Savings Plans type**, choose **Compute Savings Plans**, **Database Savings Plans**, **EC2 Instance Savings Plans**, or **SageMaker AI Savings Plans**.

1. For **EC2 Instance Savings Plans**, choose a **Region** and **Instance family**.

1. Under **Term**, choose a commitment term for your Savings Plans.

1. Under **Purchase commitment**, in **Hourly commitment**, enter an hourly commitment amount.
**Note**  
The **Hourly commitment** is the Savings Plans rate, and not the On-Demand spend.

1. Under **Payment option**, choose between **All upfront**, **Partial upfront**, and **No upfront**.

1. If you chose **Partial upfront**, enter the **Partial upfront payment** amount.

1. (Optional) To queue the Savings Plan to start on a future date, set the **Start date**.

1. Choose **Add to cart**.
**Note**  
Before adding to cart, you can choose **Analyze Savings Plan** to transfer your Savings Plan details and commitment to **Purchase Analyzer**. There, you can review, update, or run analysis to see the impact of your planned Savings Plan purchase.

1. On the **Cart** page, review your order, and choose **Submit order**.