ModelScope (魔搭, modelscope.cn) is an open-source model and dataset community founded in June 2022 by the Institute for Intelligent Computing together with the CCF Open Source Development Committee, organised around 'Model-as-a-Service'. The platform publishes models, datasets, Studios (application display space), MCP and Skills listings, and maintains the ModelScope, Swift, EvalScope and ModelScope-Agent frameworks. Its stated free offering is platform credits: 'Sign up / Log in to get 200 Magicubes' plus 'Link Alibaba Cloud account, get 50 more daily', with Studios described as 'a free and flexible AI application display space'.
// pros
- Free platform credits are stated on the home page: 200 Magicubes on sign-up or login, plus 50 more per day when an Alibaba Cloud account is linked.
- Studios are officially described as a free and flexible space to build and demonstrate AI applications on top of platform models.
- Four maintained open-source frameworks (ModelScope, Swift, EvalScope, ModelScope-Agent) let teams run inference and training locally instead of paying for hosted calls.
- Task coverage is broad and documented on-site: computer vision, NLP, speech recognition/synthesis, multimodal generation and scientific computing, with models, datasets and MCP servers catalogued together.
- The operator is a named Chinese entity with published filing (沪ICP备2024081488号-1) and a public cooperation contact.
// cons
- The Magicube allowance carries no published CNY or USD value, so it cannot be converted into a dollar credit amount.
- All model-service documentation under docs/model-service/API-Inference/ is JavaScript-rendered and returned no readable text, so per-model inference quota, rate limits and any paid pricing could not be verified from official pages.
- The account and billing path is China-first, with Alibaba Cloud linkage presented as the normal way to extend the free allowance.
- The free allowance is partly gamified (daily gifts for community interactions), making it conditional rather than a fixed balance.
Treat ModelScope as the open-weights catalogue and demo layer rather than a metered API vendor: pull the models into your own runtime with Swift or ModelScope, and use the free Magicubes plus linked Alibaba Cloud account only for evaluation. Where you need contractual throughput or a documented rate limit, budget for hosted inference elsewhere and keep ModelScope for prototyping.
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Free tier present — value not quantified
This provider offers a free tier, but its terms don’t convert cleanly into a USD figure (e.g. request-count limits or capacity-dependent pools). We refuse to print a misleading zero here. See the note below and the official pricing page for the exact limits.
note: No cash value stated: the official home page says 'Sign up / Log in to get 200 Magicubes' and 'Link Alibaba Cloud account, get 50 more daily' (modelscope.cn, checked 2026-09-16); Magicubes have no published CNY or USD rate.
| Plan | Type | Monthly | Input /1M | Output /1M | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier (source-reported) | free | — | — | — | 2000 API-Inference calls/day per user, resetting at UTC+8 00:00, non-cumulative, returning 429 when exceeded; individual models have their own caps (e.g. Qwen3-Coder 500, DeepSeek-R1/V3.1 limited to ~200/day); base_url https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1; requires binding an Alibaba Cloud account. |
| Free tier | free | — | Free | Free | daily request caps |
| Free Tier | free | — | — | — | 2,000 calls per day aggregate; max 200 per model. |
Pricing normalized from public sources — always verify with the provider.
// model prices
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen family (most stable) | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | — | — | — |
| Kimi | — | — | — |
| GLM family (per the current console availability) | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek-R1 | — | — | 64k |
$ Does ModelScope have a free tier? #
Yes — ModelScope offers a free tier. Always confirm current limits on ModelScope's official pricing page — free tiers change without notice.
$ How much does ModelScope cost per 1M tokens? #
ModelScope does not publish simple per-1M-token pricing (it may bill per request, per output, or via a subscription plan). Check their official pricing page for exact figures.
$ Is ModelScope safe to use? #
Uprouter rates ModelScope as low risk. Moderate risk for anything production-facing: the only free allowance stated officially is Magicubes, whose monetary value and expiry are not published, and the API-Inference documentation is not retrievable as text, so effective limits cannot be confirmed before building. Sign-up requires a ModelScope account and the additional daily allowance requires linking an Alibaba Cloud account, concentrating identity and billing in one vendor ecosystem. Free Studio hosting is explicitly application demonstration space, not a service-level commitment, so it should not be the basis of a production dependency. Risk ratings are editorial, evidence-based, and never influenced by affiliate relationships.
$ Can I use ModelScope through Uprouter Connect? #
Yes — ModelScope is Connect-compatible. Add your ModelScope API key in Uprouter Connect (encrypted at rest) and route requests to it through one OpenAI- and Claude-compatible API, optionally behind failover aliases. Uprouter meters the traffic in compute at the provider's listed rate.
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// more_informationprice history · live status · risk & confidence · code snippets #
price_history
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live_status
best-effort probes · not a guarantee · last 21h ago
| Checked | Status | Latency |
|---|---|---|
| 21h ago | up | 1749ms |
| 1d ago | up | 1701ms |
| 1d ago | up | 1967ms |
| 2d ago | up | 2188ms |
| 3d ago | up | 2010ms |
| 3d ago | up | 2116ms |
| 4d ago | up | 1614ms |
| 5d ago | up | 1973ms |
| 6d ago | up | 1972ms |
| 6d ago | up | 1785ms |
| 7d ago | up | 2252ms |
| 8d ago | up | 1841ms |
| 9d ago | up | 1633ms |
| 10d ago | up | 1603ms |
| 19d ago | up | 178ms |
Uprouter runs its own probes; best-effort, not a guarantee. Probe results depend on our network location and cadence — for production, always use the provider’s own status page.
risk_&_confidence
Moderate risk for anything production-facing: the only free allowance stated officially is Magicubes, whose monetary value and expiry are not published, and the API-Inference documentation is not retrievable as text, so effective limits cannot be confirmed before building. Sign-up requires a ModelScope account and the additional daily allowance requires linking an Alibaba Cloud account, concentrating identity and billing in one vendor ecosystem. Free Studio hosting is explicitly application demonstration space, not a service-level commitment, so it should not be the basis of a production dependency.
Confidence reflects how much verifiable evidence (official docs, probe history, community reports) backs this entry. Risk is our editorial assessment of operator reliability and terms — not financial advice.
code_snippets
curl https://www.uprouter.online/api/connect/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer upr_live_YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{
"model": "qwen-family-most-stable",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello via ModelScope" }]
}'
Metered in Uprouter compute — the usage log shows which upstream served each request and its exact cost.
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Ranked by neutral similarity signals only — live status, Connect compatibility, free-tier shape and free-credit proximity. Commercial relationships never influence this list.