Model Studio glossary

No procedures. Just the collisions. Paths live on the map.

Model Studio

What: Alibaba Cloud's model-service and application platform. Chinese name 百炼. APIs, console apps, subscription plans. Intro

Not: the Tongyi chat window, the Lingma IDE, or ECS / OSS.

Why this handbook exists: a front-end that calls Qwen talks to this platform's API and billing, not to the chat site.

Qwen

What: Alibaba's model family, and a separate chat product. FAQ: Model Studio is a platform that includes the Qwen series. FAQ

Here: only "a model you can call on Studio". Chat-product prose is #83.

Lingma / Qoder CN

What: Alibaba Cloud's coding assistant / standalone IDE. Current official name Qoder CN (formerly Lingma). Attach page

Relation: can take a Studio Token Plan / Coding Plan / PAYG key. Official: Enterprise cannot attach Studio.

Here: one line. Full tutorial is #84.

DashScope

What: the old API brand. The env var is still DASHSCOPE_API_KEY. US hosts still say dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com. Coding Plan still mentions dashscope.aliyuncs.com.

Not: a second product you activate beside Model Studio.

Workspace

What: a container that isolates project / team resources and ACL. {WorkspaceId} in the new MaaS URLs is this ID. First API call, Get an API key

Official ACL:

• Keys in the same workspace share the same rights. You do not split keys by text vs image.
• Default workspace: all standard models + apps in that workspace.
• Child workspace: only authorized standard models + its own apps.
• Fine-tuned models: only the workspace they live in.

Primary accounts see every workspace's keys. RAM users see only workspaces they joined.

Three call protocols

The model list often prints three hosts for one ID:

Protocol	Path	When
OpenAI-compatible	/compatible-mode/v1	Existing openai SDK, most desktop clients
Anthropic-compatible	/apps/anthropic	Tools that speak Messages (Claude Code, …)
DashScope	/api/v1	Official DashScope SDK, some multimodal generate APIs

Source: Models. The three hosts are not interchangeable. Plans add a fourth dedicated host.

Token Plan vs Coding Plan

Two Studio subscriptions. No migrate / upgrade path between them. Token Plan

	Token Plan	Coding Plan
Meter	Credits	Request counts
Official stance (2026-08)	Preferred for new buys	Lite stopped; Pro limited
Personal vs team	Personal has a 7-day window; Team is per-seat and commits not to train	Page is Pro-centric
Data	Personal used to improve the service; Team commits not to	Inputs and outputs used to improve the service
Allowed use	Tools that speak OpenAI / Anthropic	Coding tools only, not your backend API

"We never train on your data" in the FAQ / international intro is the short version. The intro's Important box and the two plan pages win.

Agent 1.0 vs 2.0

	1.0	2.0
Scheduling	Retrieve the knowledge base, then maybe MCP	Knowledge base and MCP are tools; the model orders them
Trace	Final answer only	Plan → act → reflect
Migration	—	Cannot upgrade 1.0; create a new app

Source: Agent 2.0. Official default when you have no 1.0 dependency.

A workflow is a different console app type (a fixed graph), not another name for Agent 2.0. Workflow

Knowledge base (RAG)

Retrieve private documents, then generate. Billed separately from model inference; no savings plan or resource pack. Intro

One official anti-hallucination tool (FAQ). Mechanism lives in LLM fundamentals.

MCP

Model Context Protocol. Studio agents and workflows can attach official or custom MCP servers. MCP intro

Some official MCPs (image, video, speech, web search) bill on their own. Custom MCP has basic / turbo time-based prices. Whether deploy is still "temporarily free" is that page's job.

Model Studio CLI vs Alibaba Cloud CLI

	Model Studio CLI	Alibaba Cloud CLI plugin
Package / command	npm bailian-cli; bl / bailian	aliyun bailian …
Job	Local agent calls to models and multimodal tools	OpenAPI: categories, files, connectors
Docs	install.md	OpenAPI CLI

Wrong binary: aliyun bailian list-file works, bl text chat does not exist.

High-code apps

Deploy a Python project as a managed backend. Official: high-code apps. Axis B — no tutorial here.