# Alibaba Cloud IQS, free: Image search API

> 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。

Alibaba Cloud IQS's image search API on its Free trial credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Alibaba Cloud IQS's docs list none of the 5 key fields we check: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and Site.
Alibaba Cloud IQS limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run Alibaba Cloud IQS through [our image search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-bing-images/llms.txt) are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/alibaba-cloud-iqs/free
- [Image search API: the 16 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.aliyun.com/product/iqs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://cloud-iqs.aliyuncs.com/search/multimodal`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.aliyun.com/product/iqs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3057269.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Alibaba Cloud IQS (https://www.aliyun.com/product/iqs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## 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 data: no limit
- Use data: 10.1. 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

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: engineType, advancedParams.excludeSites, advancedParams.numResults
- Method: POST
- Path: /search/multimodal

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial credits
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Alibaba Cloud IQS's plans (3)

- [Alibaba Cloud IQS, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/alibaba-cloud-iqs/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Alibaba Cloud IQS, pay as you go, Speed (engineType MultimodalSpeed)](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/alibaba-cloud-iqs/pay-as-you-go-speed-enginetype-multimodalspeed/llms.txt): $3.739 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Alibaba Cloud IQS, pay as you go, Speed Advanced (engineType MultimodalSpeedAdvanced)](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/alibaba-cloud-iqs/pay-as-you-go-speed-advanced-enginetype-multimodalspeedadvanced/llms.txt): $4.158 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Alibaba Cloud IQS's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /search/multimodal`: [Alibaba Cloud IQS, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/alibaba-cloud-iqs/free/llms.txt)

## Alibaba Cloud IQS's APIs (2)

- [Alibaba Cloud IQS: image search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/alibaba-cloud-iqs/free/llms.txt)
- [Alibaba Cloud IQS: web search API pricing, 20 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alibaba-cloud-iqs/free/llms.txt)

## Alibaba Cloud IQS: image search API alternatives

- [x402serps, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/x402serps/5-pack/llms.txt): $3.636 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [SerpApi, $3,750 monthly, Cloud 1M, GET /search, Bing Images API](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpapi/3750-monthly-cloud-1m-get-search-bing-images-api/llms.txt): $3.75 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapa/19-pack/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [SerpWow, $11,520 yearly, Volume (annual), GET /search, Bing Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpwow/11520-yearly-volume-annual-get-search-bing-images/llms.txt): $3.84 per 1,000, 40% complete, live

## 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.

- https://help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/2870227.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3057186.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3057269.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3061214.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://terms.aliyun.com/legal-agreement/terms/suit_bu1_ali_cloud/suit_bu1_ali_cloud201802281451_77479.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://www.aliyun.com/product/iqs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://www.aliyun.com/product/iqs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing