This topic describes the billing methods and billing components of Tongyi Tingwu.
Billing settlement
Tongyi Tingwu supports pay-as-you-go and Savings Plans. Bills are settled daily based on the unified billing cycle and deduction rules of Alibaba Cloud. Bills are typically generated and charged on the following day. Ensure your account has a sufficient balance to avoid service disruptions from overdue payments.
The Free Edition supports only limited use of the Voice Service. Upgrade to the commercial version as your business grows for more processing capacity.
Billing components
Fees consist of four parts: voice data processing, Large Language Model (LLM) tasks, multimodal tasks, and translation. For LLM tasks, fees are cumulative when you use multiple features or prompts.
Tongyi Tingwu processing fees.
Category | Service | Billing method | Description |
ASR | Real-time recording | Billed by meeting duration, with cumulative billing for the duration of simultaneous speakers | Enable pay-as-you-go through self-service |
Audio and video file recording | Billed by duration | ||
Large Language Model | LLM summary | Billed by duration | Includes chapter preview, full-text summary, speaker summary, Q&A review, mind map, keywords, action items, key points, spoken-to-written conversion, service quality inspection, and custom prompts. Fees are cumulative when you use multiple features simultaneously. |
Multimodal | Multimodal | Billed by duration | Includes PPT extraction from video and PPT summary features |
Translation | Real-time translation | Billed by the duration of the translated audio | Billed based on the actual duration of the translated audio. All fees and costs for real-time meeting records are aggregated. If you use the Chinese-English free-talk feature with both Chinese and English as target languages, the billable duration is doubled. |
Offline translation |