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# Advanced Security Add-on Billing

The Advanced Security add-on is billed as a percentage increase to your
organization’s pre-support Confluent Cloud charges. Eligible charges include all
Confluent Cloud usage across all products, such as Apache Kafka®, Connect, and Flink. The
only exclusions are Support and Gateway add-on charges.

In the Confluent Cloud billing UI and on invoices, Advanced Security add-on charges
appear as a distinct non-cluster-specific charge rather than as a per-cluster
line item.

For pricing details, see [Confluent Cloud pricing](https://www.confluent.io/pricing/).

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## Migration for existing users

If your organization was already using BYOK or higher IAM limits before the
Advanced Security add-on was available, you can continue to use these features
with these conditions:

- If your organization already uses higher IAM limits, you keep those limits
  permanently.
- If your organization already uses BYOK, you continue to have access to BYOK
  through March 15, 2027, or until the end of your commit term, whichever
  is later.
  See your email for your applicable date.

  After your applicable date, you need to enable the Advanced Security
  add-on or clear out your BYOK usage by deleting all resources with
  self-managed encryption and all your encryption keys.

For availability questions or interest in security capabilities, contact
Confluent Support or your Confluent account team.

## Related content

- [Advanced Security add-on](../../security/advanced-security.md#advanced-security-add-on)
- [FAQ for Confluent Cloud Billing](../billing-faq.md#billing-faq)
