Alibaba Cloud AI/ML

Platform for AI (PAI)

PAI handles the full AI engineering lifecycle on Alibaba Cloud, covering everything from data preparation to model deployment. It’s a pay-as-you-go platform, meaning you only pay for the resources you actually consume during your experiments or production runs.

This setup suits teams already committed to the Alibaba ecosystem who need integrated ML tooling without upfront costs. The main catch is the complete absence of a free tier, so every experiment, no matter how small, incurs immediate charges.

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  • Free tier No
  • Pricing Pay as you go
  • Regions 8 · 4 continents
  • SLA uptime 99.99%
  • Compliance 10 certifications
  • Provider health A

Decision score

38 /100
Features 20
Pricing 0
Reliability 100
Community 0
Ecosystem 86

Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.

Trust & reach via Alibaba Cloud

Compliance
  • C5
  • CSA STAR
  • FedRAMP
  • GDPR
  • HIPAA
  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 27017
  • ISO 27018
  • ISO 9001
  • PCI DSS
  • SOC 1 Type II
  • SOC 2 Type II
+1 more
SLA uptime
  • compute99.95%
  • database99.95%
  • networking99.95%
  • storage99.99%
Global reach

8 regions across 4 continents

  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania

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