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Alibaba Cloud IQS pricing: image search API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Alibaba Cloud IQS through our image search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 413 plans for image search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.90 per 1,000 searches or less.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.SerpScraper.dev, SerpKite and Litescrape are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Alibaba Cloud IQS plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free trial credits one of Alibaba Cloud IQS's 3 plans
Call: POST /search/multimodal Alibaba Cloud IQS's only call for this API
API: Image search API one of Alibaba Cloud IQS's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 5 key fields we check: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and Site.
  • Nothing to pay. Alibaba Cloud IQS limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search/multimodal. You can also send engineType, advancedParams.excludeSites and advancedParams.numResults. The call returns the images that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an Alibaba Cloud account that has passed real-name verification. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Alibaba Cloud IQS: image search API alternatives

Alibaba Cloud IQS alternatives: other image search API providers by price

The table starts with Alibaba Cloud IQS's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Alibaba Cloud IQS's.

Alibaba Cloud IQS, pay as you go, Speed (engineType MultimodalSpeed)x402serps, $5 packSerpApi, $3,750 monthly, Cloud 1M, GET /search, Bing Images APIScrapa, $19 packSerpWow, $11,520 yearly, Volume (annual), GET /search, Bing Images
$ per 1,000 searches$3.739$3.636$3.75$3.80$3.84
Completeness0%0%100%0%40%
Billingpay as you gopay firstmonthlypay firstyearly
Paymonthly$5$3,750$19$11,520
Enough foras many as you pay for1,375 calls1,000,000 calls a month5,000 pages250,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknown1 hourlivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with an Alibaba Cloud account that has passed real-name verificationanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone with an accountanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/2870227.html
  2. help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3057186.html
  3. help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3057269.html
  4. help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3061214.html
  5. terms.aliyun.com/legal-agreement/terms/suit_bu1_ali_cloud/suit_bu1_ali_cloud201802281451_77479.html
  6. aliyun.com/product/iqs
  7. aliyun.com/product/iqs/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Image, not in the answer
  • Size, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail, not in the answer
  • Page, not in the answer
  • Site, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitch调用 MultimodalSearch 接口进行联网图片检索，根据文本查询返回图片及其来源网页信息。
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data10.1. 在本协议项下一方向对方提供的任何资料、技术或技术支持、软件、服务等的知识产权均属于提供一方或其合法权利人所有；除提供方或合法权利人明示同意外，另一方无权复制、传播、转让、许可或提供他人使用上述知识成果，否则应承担相应的责任。
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: engineType, advancedParams.excludeSites, advancedParams.numResults
MethodPOST
Path/search/multimodal
About the plan
PlanFree trial credits
Who can get itanyone with an Alibaba Cloud account that has passed real-name verification
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, page title, page URL, image URL, published date, image height, image width, search time, original query

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