Model Studio feature updates
Announcements
- Price reduction on context caching for select models in Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
- Adjustment to the validity period for new-user free quota in Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
- Qwen3-Coder-Plus limited-time offer
- June 2025 promotion on large language model inference resource plans
- Price reduction on Qwen-VL series models
- Price reduction on Qwen series models
- Cloud-based Innovation university program
- Model offline mechanism overview
Feature updates
2026
AugustDate | Feature module | Feature highlight | Description |
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August 4 | Platform | Model upgrade notice | Model upgrade noticeLearn more |
August 3 | Platform | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Personal Token Plan user benefits upgrade | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Personal Token Plan user benefits upgradeLearn more |
Date | Feature module | Feature highlight | Description |
July 21 | Platform | Memory commercialization notice | Memory commercialization noticeLearn more |
July 16 | Platform | Legacy Enterprise Knowledge Base sunset notice | Legacy Enterprise Knowledge Base sunset notice. Learn more |
July 16 | Platform | Managed Agent commercialization notice | Managed Agent commercialization notice. Learn more |
July 14 | Platform | GLM-5.2 Fast mode price reduction notice | GLM-5.2 Fast mode price reduction notice. Learn more |
July 13 | Platform | Gateway change notice | Gateway change notice. Learn more |
July 10 | Platform | Sunset notice for select legacy models | Sunset notice for select legacy models. Learn more |
July 9 | Platform | Delisting notice for Model Studio products: Xiyan GBI and Xiyan GBI Service Package | Delisting notice for Model Studio products: Xiyan GBI and Xiyan GBI Service Package. Learn more |
July 6 | Model service | Extended sunset schedule for select legacy models | The sunset dates for select legacy models have been extended. Learn more |
Date | Feature module | Feature highlight | Description |
June 28 | Model service | qwen-turbo resource plan retirement | The qwen-turbo resource plan will stop accepting calls on July 13. Learn more |
June 9 | Model evaluation | Adds leaderboard and comprehensive evaluation | The model evaluation service now includes a leaderboard and comprehensive evaluation, supporting scoring methods such as |
June 5 | Model import | Availability on the international site | The model import feature is now available on the international site, supporting the import of LoRA fine-tuned models from OSS. Learn More |
June 3 | Model import | Model import API launched | The API Reference now includes a new section for model import, covering APIs for import tasks and custom model objects. Learn More |
June 3 | API authentication | New documentation for temporary API keys | New documentation explains how to generate temporary API keys to avoid exposing permanent API keys in untrusted environments. Learn More |
June 1 | Responses API | Asynchronous calls | The Responses API now supports asynchronous calls. You can submit long-running tasks by setting |
June 1 | Applications - Tongyi Tingwu Agent | Discounted ASR resource packs | The Tongyi Tingwu Agent now offers discounted ASR resource packs, designed for use cases such as automotive sales and customer profiling. Learn More |
June 1 | Spring AI for Alibaba Cloud | New documentation: Calling Model Studio applications | New documentation shows how to use the Spring AI for Alibaba Cloud framework to call agents and workflows in Model Studio. Learn More |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
May 31 | model tuning | New reinforcement learning training (invitation-only) | Introduces reinforcement learning (RL) training to optimize model strategies using reward signals. This feature is currently invitation-only. Learn more |
May 28 | model tuning | Support for image generation models | Model tuning supports custom training for image generation models, such as Wan / Wanx. Learn more |
May 26 | multimodal translation | Tongyi Multimodal Translation API reference now available | The API reference for Tongyi Multimodal Translation is now available, with APIs for text, image, document, and webpage translation. |
May 25 | model compression | New model compression module | The new model compression module uses quantization algorithms to convert fine-tuned, full-precision models into low-precision versions, reducing deployment costs. Learn more |
May 21 | Application components - data connection | New | The new |
May 21 | Tingwu Agent | WebSocket protocol support for industrial command transcription | The Tingwu Agent supports the WebSocket protocol for transcribing industrial commands. Documentation for this interaction protocol is now available. Learn more |
May 15 | Application - data connection (formerly application data) | New | The new |
May 15 | Model - API | Text generation API endpoint updated | The text generation API endpoint now includes categories for the OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages interfaces. Learn more |
May 11 | Application invocation API | New DashScope API for agent applications | The new DashScope API reference for agent applications is now available. It supports single-turn and multi-turn conversations, streaming responses, file-based Q&A, and visual understanding. Learn more |
May 8 | Token Plan | Team management for Token Plan Team Edition | The Token Plan Team Edition now includes team management features, supporting SSO/DingTalk logon, seat allocation, and Credits usage monitoring. Learn more |
May 4 | model tuning | Zero-code safety and compliance enhancement | The model tuning workflow for text generation models now includes a zero-code option to enhance the safety and compliance of large models. Learn more |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
April 28 | Application - multimodal interaction development kit | Launched the server-side Java SDK for the multimodal interaction development kit | The new server-side Java SDK includes documentation covering downloads, installation, key APIs, and code examples. Learn more |
April 24 | Knowledge base RAG | Added logging and monitoring to the knowledge base | All retrieval calls from the knowledge base are now delivered to Log Service, supporting auditing, troubleshooting, statistics, and alerts. Learn more |
April 23 | Model - API | Added support for EventBridge HTTP callbacks and RocketMQ for asynchronous tasks | Asynchronous tasks can now push completion events through EventBridge, eliminating the need for polling. Learn more |
April 14 | Application - multimodal interaction development kit | Launched the mobile Android SDK for the multimodal interaction development kit | The new mobile Android SDK includes documentation covering downloads, installation, key APIs, and code examples. Learn more |
April 9 | Multimodal interaction development kit | Added a license mode to the RTOS C SDK | The RTOS C SDK for the multimodal interaction development kit now supports a license mode, covering semi-managed and fully managed access on embedded hardware. Learn more |
April 7 | Application component - prompt engineering | Launched the prompt engineering API for application components | A new prompt engineering module and its API are now available as an application component, allowing you to manage prompt templates. Learn more |
April 1 | Application Publishing and Sharing - UI designer | Launched the UI designer | The Model Studio UI designer is now available. It integrates Mobi low-code capabilities, allowing you to build web applications with a drag-and-drop interface. Learn more |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
March 20 | Memory | Memory 2.0 is now available | Introduces long-term memory: automatically extracts memory segments and user profiles from conversations, and supports sharing a single Memory across multiple applications. Learn more |
March 19 | Qwen Web Search Agent | Web Search Agent now available | Available in the Marketplace with a product introduction, API reference, and usage instructions. Learn more |
March 19 | Quanmiao - PPT generation | PPT generation API for Quanmiao now available | The Quanmiao solution now includes a complete API set for PPT generation, with interfaces to manage templates, documents, and generated works. Learn more |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
February 28 | Multimodal Interaction Development Kit | New Linux C++ SDK | A new Linux C++ SDK is now available for the Multimodal Interaction Development Kit. The documentation provides download and installation instructions, and key interface examples. Learn more |
February 22 | Client Development Tools | New programming tools, including Kilo CLI | The client development tools now include Kilo CLI, accessible through Token Plan, Coding Plan, and pay-as-you-go. Learn more |
February 6 | Application - Tongyi Multimodal Translation | New Web Translation JSSDK | The newly available web translation JSSDK lets you make your website multilingual simply by inserting a script. Learn more |
February 6 | Plugins | Image Generation plugin now available on the international site | The official plugin list on the international site now includes |
February 6 | MCP | New official MCP service | The official MCP service is now live, supporting both in-platform integration and access by third-party services such as Amap Maps. Learn more |
February 6 | Multimodal Interaction Development Kit | New Android/iOS Lite SDKs | The Multimodal Interaction Development Kit now offers new Android and iOS Lite SDKs and a voice list. Learn more |
February 6 | Voice Cloning API | New documentation for CosyVoice Voice Cloning API | Detailed documentation for the CosyVoice Voice Cloning API is now available, covering how to create and query voice cloning tasks. Learn more |
February 5 | Application - Knowledge base | New ranking model and instruction intervention mode for knowledge base retrieval | The |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
January 23 | Model deployment | Deploy new pre-trained models via the API with time-based billing per Model Unit (MU) | The model deployment API now supports deploying pre-trained models such as qwen-flash and qwen-plus, and introduces time-based billing per Model Unit (MU). Learn More |
January 22 | Model fine-tuning | Support for visual understanding (VL) models | Model fine-tuning now supports the visual understanding (VL) model type, enabling you to perform customized training on multimodal models. Learn More |
January 21 | Application - Multimodal Interaction Development Kit | You can now configure the Multimodal Interaction Development Kit | The application configuration page now lets you configure four modules: voice interaction, understanding and generation, skills, and agents. Learn More |
January 21 | Model fine-tuning | Support for video generation models | Model fine-tuning now supports the video generation model type, enabling you to perform customized training on video models such as the Wan series. Learn More |
2025
DecemberDate | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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December 22 | model usage | New dashboard for free tier and usage statistics | Provides a centralized view of each model's free tier, including used/remaining quotas and call volume statistics. model usage |
December 15 | model evaluation | New leaderboard feature | You can now select multiple models at once and generate a comparison leaderboard based on evaluation metrics like BLEU and ROUGE for easy side-by-side performance comparison. model evaluation |
December 15 | model evaluation | New evaluator types | Supports comprehensive model performance assessment across mainstream evaluation scenarios, including string matching, text similarity calculation, model-based and manual classification, and model-based scoring. model evaluation |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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November 6 | model monitoring | Added support for viewing model inference logs | You can now view historical conversations between users and models, which helps with prompt optimization and troubleshooting. model monitoring |
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October 24 | model deployment | New model unit deployment method (time-based billing) | Key advantages ofmodel unitdeployment include:
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October 21 | Model fine-tuning and deployment | New:SFT model fine-tuning and deployment for Qwen3-VL models | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct and Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking now support SFT model fine-tuning and deployment of fine-tuned models. SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning) supports both full-parameter fine-tuning and efficient fine-tuning (LoRA) methods. |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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September 12 | Model fine-tuning and deployment | DPO preference training support for Qwen2.5 and Qwen3 series | The Qwen3-32B, 14B, 8B models and the Qwen2.5-72B, 32B, 14B, 8B models now support DPO preference training. DPO preference training uses negative feedback to reduce hallucination and better align model outputs with human preferences. |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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August 14 | Model fine-tuning and deployment | Qwen2.5-VL models now support fine-tuning and deployment | The Qwen2.5-VL-72B, 32B, and 7B models now support model fine-tuning and deployment. |
Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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July 29 | free tier | New "stop when free tier is depleted" feature | The stop when free tier is depleted feature, when enabled, prevents users from making calls after their free tier is exhausted. It returns an error with the code |
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June 5 | model monitoring | New alerts and notifications |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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April 18 | model monitoring | New advanced monitoring mode |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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February 8 | Billing | Billing adjustment for DeepSeek series models |
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February 7 | Billing | Price reduction for the qwen-max model |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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January 22 | Billing | Price adjustment for some Qwen series models |
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January 21 | model monitoring | New model monitoring capability |
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2024
December| Date | Module | Feature | Description |
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December 31 | billing | Price reduction for Qwen-VL models |
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December 27 | model fine-tuning | SFT fine-tuning for |
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December 27 | model deployment | Model deployment now supports pay-per-invocation billing |
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December 24 | ModelScope | New context cache feature |
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December 20 | OpenAI API compatibility | Batch jobs now support task notifications. Three more models are now supported for batch jobs. |
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December 20 | ModelScope | New |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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November 7 | data center | Data processing now supports canvas orchestration |
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Date | Module | Feature | Description |
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October 17 | Model Square | model sunsetting |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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September 20 | billing | Prepaid support for model inference |
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September 19 | billing | Free tier validity period extended |
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Price reduction for select Qwen series models |
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Model Square | New model types added |
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throttling | Support for custom quota increase requests |
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September 18 | Homepage | Model Studio console redesign |
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September 10 | billing | Model training billing adjustment |
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September 6 | Model Tools | New models supported for model training |
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September 6 | Model Square | Billing adjustment for large models |
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| Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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August 29 | Model data | Enhanced model data import |
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August 27 | OpenAI API compatibility | New Vision invocation mode |
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August 23 | OpenAI API compatibility | New batch invocation mode |
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August 16 | Workspace | New trusted workspace |
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August 8 | Model tools | New model evaluation method |
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August 7 | Model tools | New models for dedicated deployment |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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July 30 | data processing | New operator types for data processing |
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July 23 | system management | Updated query capability for call statistics |
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July 19 | model square | Added best practice documentation |
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July 19 | model square | Upgraded Qwen series models |
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July 2 | model tools | Added support for model fine-tuning for qwen-vl-plus |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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June 13 | data center | Data augmentation enhancements |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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May 31 | data center | data management supports data filtering |
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May 21 | commercialization | Price reduction for select models and separate billing for input and output |
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commercialization | Free tier policy update for new users |
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May 3 | Home | A redesigned Home page that improves the onboarding experience |
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Model Square | A completely redesigned, more intuitive, and clearer interface |
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Model Playground | New users can try out select models directly online |
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model fine-tuning | New model types available for training |
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data processing | New automated data processing capabilities and enhanced data security |
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model data | You can now create datasets of different types, such as training and evaluation sets, and manage multiple data versions. Published datasets can be used for model fine-tuning or evaluation. |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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April 25 | Service agreement | Service agreement update |
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April 16 | model experience center | New models available for testing |
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April 3 | model square | Model deprecation and upgrade |
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Date | Functional module | Feature | Description |
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March 15 | large model service | Module updates for Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
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March 15 | Model Hub | New large models and billing adjustments |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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February 8 | model experience | Added the model experience center |
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February 5 | Model Square | Added large model types |
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February 4 | model deployment | Added the Qwen-Plus model deployment type |
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Date | Feature module | Feature | Description |
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January 18 | model training | New option for mixed training |
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January 11 | model deployment | New offline status |
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January 11 | model training | New models supported for training |
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