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Alibaba Cloud Model Studio:Knowledge base quotas and limits

Last Updated:Dec 05, 2025

Quotas

Type

Description

Limit

Number of knowledge bases

The number of knowledge bases that can be created by each Alibaba Cloud account.

Unlimited

Number of categories

The number of categories (parent and child) that can be created in each workspace.

500

Number of files

The number of files that can be uploaded to each workspace.

10,000

Number of data tables

The number of data tables that can be created in each workspace.

1,000

File uploads

Supported formats

Knowledge bases for document search

Knowledge bases for data query and image Q&A

Supported format

Limits

Supported format

Limits

pdf, docx, doc, pptx, ppt

  • Up to 100 MB

  • Up to 1,000 pages

xlsx, xls

  • Up to 100,000 rows

  • Up to 100 columns

txt, markdown, html

Up to 100 MB

xlsx, xls

Up to 20 MB

png, jpg / jpeg, bmp, gif

  • Up to 20 MB

  • The shorter side must be longer than 15 pixels, the longer side must be shorter than 8,192 pixels, and the aspect ratio must be less than 50.

Upload operations

Type

Description

Limit

Number of files per import

The number of files that can be imported at one time in the console.

This limit does not apply to batch imports that use an API. However, import no more than 10,000 files at a time.

50

Number of tags

The number of tags that can be attached to a single file.

32

Data processing

Chunking

Type

Description

Limit

Number of text chunks

The number of text chunks for a single file.

Unlimited

Text chunk length

The number of tokens in a single text chunk.

6,000

Embedding

For more information, see Text and multimodal embedding.

Type

Description

Embedding model

  • Knowledge bases for document search and data query: The text-embedding-v2 model is supported.

  • Knowledge bases for image Q&A: Only the multimodal-embedding-v1 model is supported.

Embedding dimensions

  • text-embedding-v2: 1,536

  • multimodal-embedding-v1: 1,024

The preceding embedding dimensions cannot be changed.

Retrieval

Type

Description

Limit

Number of retrieved text chunks

The number of text chunks that can be retrieved in a single query.

20