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The highest gate is therefore the payment method, not the phone. The record's notes add that individual verification takes a passport or driver's licence, unverified, and that the trial is reachable without a Chinese national ID. The authorisation amount, whether the card is charged or only verified, and debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Each model (such as qwen-plus, qwen3.6-plus, or qwen3.6-plus-2026-04-02) has its own independent free quota (typically 1,000,000 tokens)', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'The free quota is valid for 90 days' and 'Re-registering a new account does not grant an additional new user free quota', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'OAuth authentication provides an independent free quota for model inference (2,000 calls per day)', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/regions","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'RPM and TPM vary by model and are aggregated at the Alibaba Cloud account level'; trial domain 'RPM is 1000', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/step-1-register-an-alibaba-cloud-account","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Activate a free trial' needs a completed sign-up, which requires 'Mobile number, payment method, billing address'"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Arithmetic, labelled estimate: the pool is input plus output combined, so a job at 4:1 input to output yields about 200,000 output tokens per model. Identity is the open question: the international site lists 'Activate a free trial' as needing a completed sign-up with a mobile number and a payment method, and individual verification takes a passport or driver's licence, so the trial is reachable without a Chinese national ID but probably not without a card. I did not settle whether the card is charged or only verified, and I did not create an account.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"trial-credit","free_tier_kind":"trial-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1000000,"unit":"tokens","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":1000000,"unit":"tokens","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}