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Alibaba Cloud: LLM prices, GPUs and regions

Alibaba Cloud sells 2 of the compared models per token and prices 5 kinds of GPU for hosting your own, across 11 regions.

Models sold per token

ModelInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokensCheapest region
Qwen3 235B A22B$0.287$1.15eu-central-1
Qwen3 32B$0.16$0.64ap-southeast-1

GPUs for hosting your own

On demand.
GPUFrom, per GPU-hourCheapest instanceGPUs in itRegion
T4$1.12ecs.gn6i-c4g1.xlarge1 × 16 GBus-east-1
A10$1.27ecs.gn7i-4x.8xlarge4 × 24 GBus-east-1
L20$2.25ecs.gn8is-8x.32xlarge8 × 48 GBus-east-1
L20N$6.71ecs.gn9gc.4xlarge1 × 72 GBus-east-1
GPU H$7.19ecs.gn8v-2x.8xlarge2 × 96 GBeu-central-1

Regions with prices

ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-3, ap-southeast-5, ap-southeast-7, cn-hongkong, eu-central-1, me-central-1, us-east-1, us-west-1

List prices collected 5 October 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.