💾 Alibaba Cloud slashes AI subscription costs by over 40% as China's token price war heats up

Alibaba Cloud raised the monthly credits in its personal Token Plan for AI models by about 74-78% while keeping Lite, Essential and Standard prices unchanged. The top Pro tier got more credits and a price cut from 499 to 312 yuan a month, so the cost per credit falls by over 40% across all four tiers. The plan works with coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Qwen Code, and also adds night-time discounts on Qwen and DeepSeek models.

⭐ Chinese cloud giants are competing hard on price for developers using AI coding agents, which keeps pressure on Western rivals' pricing.

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