Alibaba Platform for AI (PAI)

AlibabaAI & MLFree tier available

Enterprise ML and AI platform covering PAI-Studio visual workflow builder, PAI-DSW Jupyter notebooks, PAI-EAS elastic inference serving, PAI-Blade inference optimisation, and integration with Alibaba's Qwen foundation models

Jurisdictional exposure

Provider HQ
CNHangzhou, China

Subject to PIPL, DSL, CSL

Region locations
APACCNEUUKUSOther31 regions across 6 jurisdictions
Sovereign option
Yes — 13 sovereign-flagged regions available

Attributes

GPU Support
Yes

Sub-services (4)

PAI-Studio

Drag-and-drop visual ML workflow authoring with 200+ algorithms

PAI-DSW

Managed Jupyter notebooks with shared GPU resources

PAI-EAS (Elastic Algorithm Service)

Scalable online model inference endpoints

PAI-Blade

AI compiler and runtime for 3-10x inference speedup

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

Where this runs

31 regions
17 countries
13sovereign
Sovereign regions (13)
  • China (Hangzhou) · HangzhouAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Beijing) · BeijingAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Shanghai) · ShanghaiAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Shenzhen) · ShenzhenAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Chengdu) · ChengduAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Zhangjiakou) · ZhangjiakouAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Hohhot) · HohhotAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Qingdao) · QingdaoAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Heyuan) · HeyuanAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Ulanqab) · UlanqabAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Wuhan) · WuhanAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Guangzhou) · GuangzhouAlibaba Cloud China
  • China (Zhongwei) · ZhongweiAlibaba Cloud China
Commercial regions (18)

Europe (3)

  • France (Paris)
  • Frankfurt
  • London

North America (3)

  • Mexico
  • Silicon Valley
  • Virginia

South America (1)

  • Brazil (São Paulo)

Asia (9)

  • Hong Kong
  • Jakarta
  • Tokyo
  • Malaysia (Johor)
  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Manila
  • Singapore
  • Seoul
  • Bangkok

Middle East (2)

  • SAU (Riyadh - Partner Region)
  • Dubai

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Pricing

Pricing model:pay-as-you-go