Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Standard (Personal) vs Volcengine Ark Medium Plan Comparison
This page compares Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Standard (Personal) vs Volcengine Ark Medium side by side across pricing, usage quotas, concurrency, supported models, availability, and intended coding workflows. Use the structured comparison to choose a plan that fits your budget and usage pattern, and confirm the latest provider terms before subscribing.
| Metric | Alibaba Cloud Model StudioStandard (Personal)Good value | Volcengine ArkMediumIn stockStrong models |
|---|---|---|
| Provider / Type | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Token Plan Token Plan | Volcengine Ark Volcengine Ark Agent Plan Token Plan |
| Audience | Personal | Personal / Enterprise |
| Availability | Sold out | Currently sold out. | Limited | The CNY 49.9 promotional price applies for up to the first two months; the plan-price promotion ends on 2026-11-08, and quantity is limited. |
| First month · CNY | — | |
| Monthly · CNY | ¥200 / Monthly | |
| Quarterly · CNY | — | |
| Yearly · CNY | — | |
| Request quota (5h / week / month) | - / - / - | 1,000 (Estimated) / 3,500 (Estimated) / 10,000 (Estimated) |
| Credit quota (5h / week / month) | - / 10,000 / - | - / - / - |
| Token quota (5h / week / month) | - / - / - | - / - / 111,000,000 (Estimated) |
| Agent concurrency | 3-4 | - |
| Supported models | Qwen3.6 FlashHappyHorse 1.1 R2V | Doubao Seed 2.0 |
| Harness / client tools | Qoder, Qoder CN, OpenClaw, Code Interpreter, Qwen Code, Image Search by Image, Image Search by Text, Claude Code, Web Search, Web Scraping, Cursor | - |
| Overview and notes | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Token Plan Standard individual tier. Qwen-3.6-Plus: 5K input tokens/Credit, 25K cache-hit input tokens/Credit, and 0.83K output tokens/Credit, equivalent to CNY 1.58/M input tokens, CNY 0.32/M cached tokens, and CNY 9.54/M output tokens. Assuming a 90% cache-hit rate and a 99:1 input/output ratio, 100 tokens consume about 0.00675 Credit, so 1 Credit is approximately 14.82K tokens. The table rounds to 15K tokens/Credit. Image generation benefit: Token Plan personal tiers also include qwen-image-3.0-pro image generation (not listed in the coding-model comparison above). Currently sold out. | Volcengine Ark Agent Plan Medium at the standard monthly price of CNY 200. AFP credit-based billing applies. See https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379/2366394. Calculated using the best-model 9x multiplier: 1 AFP equals approximately 1,111 tokens. There are 5-hour, weekly, and monthly token limits but no request-count limit. The table assumes 11K tokens per request using the best model. 150 web searches per month. The CNY 49.9 promotional price applies for up to the first two months; the plan-price promotion ends on 2026-11-08, and quantity is limited. |
| Official link | Open provider | Open provider |
Pricing
Alibaba Cloud Model StudioStandard (Personal)
Volcengine ArkMedium
Core info
Alibaba Cloud Model StudioStandard (Personal)
AvailabilitySold out | Currently sold out.
Agent concurrency3-4
Volcengine ArkMedium
AvailabilityLimited | The CNY 49.9 promotional price applies for up to the first two months; the plan-price promotion ends on 2026-11-08, and quantity is limited.
Agent concurrency-
Quota
Alibaba Cloud Model StudioStandard (Personal)
Request quota- / - / -
Credit quota- / 10,000 / -
Token quota- / - / -
Volcengine ArkMedium
Request quota1,000 (Estimated) / 3,500 (Estimated) / 10,000 (Estimated)
Credit quota- / - / -
Token quota- / - / 111,000,000 (Estimated)
Supported models
Alibaba Cloud Model StudioStandard (Personal)
Qwen3.6 FlashHappyHorse 1.1 R2V
Volcengine ArkMedium
Doubao Seed 2.0