Updated on 2025-05-29 GMT+08:00

Model Management

Description

Creating a model in ModelArts is free, but if you import a model package file from OBS, you need to store it in OBS, which will involve some charges. For details, see Table 1.

Table 1 Billing for storage resources

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Billing Formula

Storage resource

Object Storage Service (OBS)

OBS is used to store the input and output data of training and inference. For details, see Object Storage Service Pricing Details.

CAUTION:

OBS resources for storing data are continuously billed. To stop billing, delete the data stored in OBS.

Pay-per-use

Yearly/Monthly

Creating an OBS bucket is free of charge. You pay only for the storage capacity and duration you actually use.

Billing Example

Example: Storage fee

Assume that you upload the model package required for creating a model to an OBS bucket at 10:00 on April 1, 2023. The billing item is storage resources. The fee for creating the AI application is calculated as follows:
  • Storage fee: The model package required for creating the model is uploaded to or exported from OBS. The storage fee is based on the OBS billing rules. For details, see Object Storage Service Pricing Details.

In conclusion, the fee for creating the model is equal to the storage fee.