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    Platform For AI:Billing overview

    Last Updated:Nov 02, 2023

    This topic describes how you are billed for Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI).

    Billing rule

    PAI supports two activation methods that are subject to different billing rules.

    • Standalone activation

      You can perform a standalone activation for PAI. Standalone activations are free-of-charge. When you activate PAI, a default workspace is created. However, you are charged when you use PAI modules. You can view the billing details of the modules in PAI bills. For more information about the billing details of each PAI module, see the "Billing description" section of this topic.

    • Activate PAI together with other cloud services

      You can activate PAI together with other cloud services, such as Object Storage Service (OSS), MaxCompute, and DataWorks. Each cloud service is separately billed. For more information about the billing details of these services, see the following topics:

    Billing description

    The following section describes the billing rules of PAI modules:

    Module

    Description

    Billable item

    Billing method

    Reference

    iTAG

    iTAG is an intelligent data labeling platform. You can create data labeling tasks for the following data formats: image, text, video, and audio. You can also create multimodal data labeling tasks.

    None. iTAG is available for free trial.

    N/A

    N/A

    Machine Learning Designer (previously known as Machine Learning Studio)

    Machine Learning Designer is a cloud-native visual modeling tool that you can use to develop machine learning algorithms.

    • You are charged when you run machine learning components.

    • Pay-as-you-go

    Billing of Designer (Formerly Known as Machine Learning Studio)

    DSW

    Data Science Workshop (DSW) is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that integrates open source JupyterLab and provides a variety of plug-ins to support custom development.

    • You are charged when you use Individual Edition resources.

    • You are charged when you use GPU On-sale Edition resources.

    • Pay-as-you-go

    • Subscription

    Billing of DSW

    DLC

    Deep Learning Container (DLC) is a cloud-native platform for basic AI computing jobs. DLC provides an elastic, stable, user-friendly, and high-performance environment for model training.

    • You are charged when you use the public resource group.

    • If you use self-managed resource groups, you are charged for Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters, including the network and storage resources. The fees for these resources are included in ACK bills instead of DLC bills.

    • Pay-as-you-go

    • Subscription

    Billing of DLC

    EAS

    You can deploy a trained model as an online inference service or an AI-powered web application.

    • You are charged when you use the public resource group.

    • You are charged when you use dedicated resource groups.

    • Pay-as-you-go

    • Subscription

    Billing of EAS

    Scenario-based solution

    This module provides features such as multimedia analysis, and smart retail.

    • You are charged when you use smart retail.

    • You are charged when you use multimedia analysis.

    • Pay-as-you-go

    • Subscription

    Billing of scenario-based solution

    References