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AI Guardrails:Activation and billing

Last Updated:Mar 31, 2026

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:

FactorExamples
Content typeImages, text, or videos
Detection scenarioPornography detection, QR code detection, text spam detection
Daily scan volume tierVolume of content scanned per day
Algorithm suggestionReview, block, or pass
Regioncn-shanghai

For pricing details, see Pricing.

To activate pay-as-you-go:

  1. Go to the AI Guardrails activation page.

  2. Read and select Content Moderation 1.0 Pay-As-You-Go Terms of Service, then click Activate Now.

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.