Bailian (阿里云百炼) : Alibaba Cloud's hosted studio for building AI apps on the Qwen LLM family.

Alibaba's answer to Amazon Bedrock or Google Vertex AI, Bailian builds and ships large-language-model apps on the Qwen family plus third-party models.

One console covers model calls, fine-tuning on your data, retrieval-augmented generation over vector knowledge bases, and agents wired to MCP tools — from prototype to production.

Built for developers and enterprise teams, Bailian runs on Alibaba Cloud's global cloud. An OpenAI-compatible API lets overseas teams use the models with familiar tooling.

Is Bailien's pricing competitive?

Bailian pricing is competitive, especially for Chinese-language workloads. Pay-as-you-go and reserved capacity options are available. For enterprises doing business in China, it is more cost-effective than using Western LLMs with higher latency.

What can you build with Bailian?

Bailian provides a complete MaaS platform: model inference, fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, agent building, and model evaluation. It supports multiple base models beyond Alibaba's own. This is similar to AWS Bedrock but with stronger Chinese LLM options.

Can international companies use Bailian?

Bailian (Alibaba Cloud's Model-as-a-Service platform) is accessible through Alibaba Cloud's global regions. International companies can access Tongyi Qianwen models via API, fine-tune them, and deploy with international payment methods.