Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation
Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation is a cloud service for screening text, images, audio, video and documents.
What Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation is
Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation is a cloud service for screening text, images, audio, video and documents. It supports custom policies and a human review workflow, so teams can combine automated moderation with review processes. The listed standard pay-as-you-go rates are $0.30 a month for text moderation, $0.60 a month for image moderation, $9 a month for voice moderation, $8.10 a month for video moderation and $0.09 a month for document moderation. Text pricing notes multilingual detection and daily usage billing; image pricing includes baseline and AI-generated image detection. Voice moderation lists audio and voice moderation with multilingual detection, while video lists video audio moderation and live-stream detection. Document moderation includes risk detection and page-based billing. Each listed rate is billed every 24 hours based on usage. The product is web-based and cloud-deployed. It has no free plan, so prospective users should account for its paid, usage-based pricing across the moderation types they need.
Good
- Moderates text, images, audio, video and documents
- Custom moderation policies are supported
- Human review workflow is available
- Listed rates are usage-based and billed daily
Watch out
- There is no free plan
- Pricing varies by moderation format
- Voice moderation is listed at $9 a month
Who it suits
This service suits teams that need moderation for multiple content formats and want custom policies or a human review workflow. It is relevant to organizations using a cloud deployment and web access.
Verdict
Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation covers several content types and includes both policy customization and human review. Check the rate for each format you plan to moderate, since the listed charges differ.
Plans and prices
From Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation's own pricing page, checked 21 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go — Standard text moderation | $0.30 a month | Multi-language text detection · Daily usage billing · Billed every 24 hours based on usage |
| Pay-as-you-go — Standard image moderation | $0.60 a month | Baseline detection · AI-generated image detection · Billed every 24 hours based on usage |
| Pay-as-you-go — Standard voice moderation | $9 a month | Audio and voice moderation · Multilingual detection · Billed every 24 hours based on usage |
| Pay-as-you-go — Standard video moderation | $8.10 a month | Video audio moderation · Live-stream detection · Billed every 24 hours based on usage |
| Pay-as-you-go — Standard document moderation | $0.09 a month | Document risk detection · Page-based billing · Billed every 24 hours based on usage |
| Document Moderation 2.0 standard | $0.09 a month | up to 50 pages per call · PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel formats · pay-as-you-go per call |
| Content Moderation 2.0 standard text | $0.30 a month | multi-language text detection · text_standard · pay-as-you-go per 1,000 calls |
| Content Moderation 2.0 standard image | $0.60 a month | baseline detection · AIGC image detection · pay-as-you-go per 1,000 calls |
| Content Moderation 2.0 advanced text | $0.60 a month | large-model UGC text moderation · text_advanced · pay-as-you-go per 1,000 calls |
| Content Moderation 2.0 advanced image | $1.20 a month | large- and small-model fusion image moderation · pay-as-you-go per 1,000 calls |
| Content Moderation 2.0 standard video audio | $8.10 a month | multilingual audio and live-stream video detection · pay-as-you-go per 1,000 minutes |
| Content Moderation 2.0 standard voice | $9 a month | multilingual audio and live-stream detection · pay-as-you-go per 1,000 minutes |
The facts
Each one read from Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- The service exposes a RESTful API with synchronous and asynchronous calls, batch processing and callback support.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Callbacks
- Asynchronous scan and review results can be sent to an HTTP callback endpoint authenticated with HMAC-SHA256 or SM3 checksums.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Console
- A web console provides analytics, result queries, custom risk-library management and policy configuration.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cross-border processing
- For Germany Frankfurt, small-model processing stays local while large-model processing sends data to Singapore for inference and storage.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Custom policies
- Businesses can create policies by business scenario and set rules for image, video, text and audio moderation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Document API limit
- Document Moderation 2.0 accepts files up to 200 MB and returns asynchronous results that are retained for up to 24 hours.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Document moderation
- Document Moderation 2.0 checks text and images in DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, PDF, XLS, XLSX, XLTX and XLTM files.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Document SDK
- The document integration guide provides a .NET package named AlibabaCloud.SDK.Green20220302, version 3.2.4, with sample task-submission and result-query code.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Human review
- The Audit console lets users manually mark image, video and text results as pass or block, and feeds decisions into sample libraries for future identical content.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Image moderation
- Image moderation covers pornography, violence, prohibited material, sensitive elements, abuse and text embedded in images, with multilingual image-text detection.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: contextual censorship
- Another G2 reviewer said the system can censor content out of context and offers no way to correct the expressed idea.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: false positives
- A G2 reviewer reported legitimate content being incorrectly flagged, requiring time-consuming human correction.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: verification and account access
- Trustpilot reviewers repeatedly complained about identity checks blocking API or trial access and difficulty deleting accounts.checked 15 Oct 2026
- OSS integration
- Its OSS compliance feature scans objects in Alibaba Cloud Object Storage using incremental or scheduled detection configured from the console.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Praise: accuracy and efficiency
- A G2 reviewer praised accurate, efficient filtering that reduced manual moderation effort and improved user experience.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- App capabilities
- The official iOS app supports cloud-resource management, purchasing and renewal, monitoring alerts, AI-assistant chat and mobile support tickets.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Rating on Apple App Store
- 3.4 out of 5 from 3,536 ratings for the official Alibaba Cloud app.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded
- LinkedIn lists Alibaba Cloud as founded in 2009.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists Hangzhou, China as Alibaba Cloud headquarters and gives a primary address on West Wen Yi Road in Hangzhou.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company ownership
- Crunchbase describes Alibaba Cloud as the cloud-computing arm and business unit of Alibaba Group.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn classifies Alibaba Cloud as having 10,001 or more employees and shows more than 5,000 discoverable employee profiles.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2009checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Hangzhou, Chinachecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Limit: billing transparency
- Trustpilot reviewers reported unexpected usage charges, unclear plan-key behavior and promotional prices changing at checkout.checked 15 Oct 2026
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