Alibaba Cloud Model
- Free allowance
- A new account gets an independent free quota per model, 'typically 1,000,000 tokens', counted as one combined pool of input plus output, for models in the Singapore region with the International deployment scope only: no other region carries a free quota.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe 90-day expiry binds before the tokens do: 1,000,000 tokens per model is about 11,000 tokens a day across the quarter, and the quota cannot be moved to another model once it runs out.
- Evidence
- documented20 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | A new account gets an independent free quota per model, 'typically 1,000,000 tokens', counted as one combined pool of input plus output, for models in the Singapore region with the International deployment scope only: no other region carries a free quota. The quota is valid 90 days and is not renewed: 'Re-registering a new account does not grant an additional new user free quota', and unused quota is voided at expiry. The grant follows the release list: the 2026-10-29 removal list takes qwen-plus, qwen-flash, qwen-max, qwen3.6-plus and qwen3-8b, among others, out of the grant for new users, while qwen3.8-max, qwen3.8-flash, qwen3.7-plus and deepseek-v4-pro print '1 million tokens' on the price list. A dated snapshot and its undated alias are two separate models with two separate quotas. Separately an OAuth lane carries 'an independent free quota for model inference (2,000 calls per day)' that the console does not display. unit tokens; metered on wall-clock; trial-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | card the account is created with an email address (mobile number optional), and the free trial then needs the completed sign-up: the account help page states 'Activate a free trial' needs a completed sign-up, which requires 'Mobile number, payment method, billing address'. The payment step may place a temporary authorization hold on a bank card, only for verification with no money deducted, and virtual credit cards are not supported; PayPal is a listed payment method. The Model Studio free-quota page requires the account information to be completed before activation and links the step to a login-gated page, so that the same payment method is asked there is unverified: behind a sign-up. Individual identity verification (passport or driver's licence) is a separate stage; whether the free trial requires it is unverified: behind a sign-up. The highest gate is therefore the payment method, not the phone |
| Egress | not stated |
| Retention | the 90-day expiry binds before the tokens do: 1,000,000 tokens per model is about 11,000 tokens a day across the quarter, and the quota cannot be moved to another model once it runs out. |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | the per-model structure is the one thing here that composes: each eligible model is a separate 1M-token pool on one account, so a pipeline that puts the filter on qwen3.8-flash and the hard cases on qwen3.8-max draws two quotas rather than one; qwen-flash and qwen-plus no longer carry a grant for new users. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| 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: the free trial needs the completed sign-up with a mobile number, a payment method and a billing address; the card step may place a temporary authorization hold for verification, and virtual credit cards are refused. The quota exists only in the Singapore region with the International scope, and the 2026-10-29 removal list took the older qwen-plus, qwen-flash and qwen-max lines out for new users. After the quota is exhausted the account is billed pay-as-you-go unless Free Quota Only is enabled, which is off by default |
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Evidence 20
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | '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 |
| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | 'The free quota is valid for 90 days' and 'Re-registering a new account does not grant an additional new user free quota', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | 'OAuth authentication provides an independent free quota for model inference (2,000 calls per day)', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/regions | 'RPM and TPM vary by model and are aggregated at the Alibaba Cloud account level'; trial domain 'RPM is 1000', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/step-1-register-an-alib | 'Activate a free trial' needs a completed sign-up, which requires 'Mobile number, payment method, billing address' |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | the platform removed the free quota of many models for new users, qwen-plus, qwen-flash and qwen-max among them |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing | qwen3.8-flash carries a 1 million token free quota on the price list |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | the free quota is valid for 90 days |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/step-1-register-an-alib | a free trial cannot be activated on a bare created account; the completed sign-up is required |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/step-1-register-an-alib | the payment step may hold an amount on a bank card for verification only, with no money deducted |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | the free quota is granted in the Singapore region only |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | only Singapore-region models with the International deployment scope are eligible |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota | the account information must be completed before activation; the link target is login-gated |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/step-1-register-an-alib | the completed sign-up requires a mobile number, a payment method and a billing address |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/step-1-register-an-alib | creating the account itself needs an email address; the mobile number is optional |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/step-1-register-an-alib | virtual credit cards are refused for payment verification |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing | qwen-plus shows no free quota on the Singapore price list |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing | qwen3.8-max carries a 1 million token free quota on the price list |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/en/model-studio/wh | the profile must be completed to continue on pay-as-you-go billing after the quota is depleted |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/regions | the trial domain is limited to 1000 RPM at the account level and the other domains aggregate RPM and TPM per account by model |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "trial-credit","free_tier_kind": "trial-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field