Alibaba Cloud Token Plan increases quota by over 70% starting today

Alibaba Cloud raised the monthly credit quotas on its Token Plan personal subscriptions effective November 9, lifting the Lite, Essential, and Standard tiers by roughly 74% to 78% while holding their monthly fees at 39, 79, and 139 yuan respectively. Lite rose from 11,500 to 20,000 credits, Essential from 25,500 to 45,000, and Standard from 45,000 to 80,000, while the top Pro tier went from 180,000 to 200,000 credits with its monthly fee cut about 37.5% to 312 yuan from 499 yuan. The changes cut the effective cost per credit by more than 40% across all four tiers, ranging from about 42.5% to 43.8%. The move deepens price competition among Chinese cloud and AI model providers by lowering the unit economics of token-based AI usage for individual developers and small teams. Watch whether rivals such as Tencent Cloud and Baidu AI Cloud match the cuts, and whether the lower per-credit pricing sustains higher subscription volumes.