Alibaba Cloud AI Coding Plan PRO $15 instead of $50 or LITE $3 instead of $10, ideal for Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw
Have you always wanted to test how Frontier's open-weight models perform before investing thousands of euros in your own hardware – or have you fallen for the OpenClaw hype? Or are the rate limits of the major US labs simply not enough for you?
Alibaba Cloud's AI Coding Plan offers access to the four best open-weight models of the last two months, with inference performed in Singapore – unlike the labs, which often operate directly in mainland China.
Open-weight means that the model weights are publicly available and can be self-hosted – unlike proprietary models such as ChatGPT or Claude, where you are strictly dependent on the API of the providers or their closest partners.
- Qwen3.5-Plus (Qwen Team)
- Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot AI)
- GLM-5 (Zhipu AI)
- MiniMax-M2.5 (MiniMax)
All four outperform everything that existed six months ago. Which one is best for you depends on your use case and personal preference; when properly configured, the gap to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google is even smaller.
Subscription models:
LITE for $3 in the first month (instead of $10): 18,000 requests/month, which is about 3 times that of a regular Claude Pro subscription.
PRO for $15 in the first month (instead of $50): 90,000 requests/month, more than enough even for the most absurd projects.
⚠️ There is only a limited daily quota available at the promotional price: This is released anew every day at 9 PM UTC+8 time – first come, first served. I recommend creating an Alibaba Cloud account beforehand, as this doesn't necessarily happen in seconds.
In the second month, the discount is only 50%, i.e., $5 (Lite) or $25 (Pro), after which it's full price – don't forget to deactivate the renewal in time or not activate it at all!
