Content Moderation 1.0 supports image moderation, text moderation, and video moderation. To get started, activate pay-as-you-go billing or purchase a prepaid resource plan.
Activate pay-as-you-go
Activating pay-as-you-go for AI Guardrails is free. After activation, you are billed based on actual usage.Pricing
For Content Moderation 1.0, the amount billed depends on:
Factor | Examples |
Content type | Images, text, or videos |
Detection scenario | Pornography detection, QR code detection, text spam detection |
Daily scan volume tier | Volume of content scanned per day |
Algorithm suggestion | Review, block, or pass |
Region | cn-shanghai |
For pricing details, see Pricing.
To activate pay-as-you-go:
Go to the AI Guardrails activation page.
Read and select Content Moderation 1.0 Pay-As-You-Go Terms of Service, then click Activate Now.
Stop using Content Moderation 1.0
Content Moderation 1.0 pay-as-you-go does not include a switch in the console to directly disable the service. To stop billing, you must stop generating API calls. The steps depend on how you integrated Content Moderation 1.0:
If you integrated via API or SDK: In your application code, comment out or remove the code that calls Content Moderation 1.0 APIs (for example, your Java SDK initialization and API call configurations). Once no API calls are made, no new charges are incurred.
As long as no valid API calls are made, no new fees are incurred.
Billing cycle and overdue payments
The billing cycle for Content Moderation 1.0 API detection services is 24 hours. Each day, Alibaba Cloud generates a bill for the previous day's usage and deducts the fees from your Alibaba Cloud account.
If your account balance is insufficient to cover a bill, the service is suspended. To resume the service, pay the overdue amount. The service is typically restored within 5 minutes.