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Tongyi Multimodal Embedding v1 Fixed 1,024-dimensional vectors for Chinese and English text, images and video, with separate text and visual input rates.
available Closed weights Embeddings
Input token limit 512 512 tokens
Vector dimensions 1K 1,024 dimensions
Input billing See rates Alibaba Model Studio · China (Beijing)
Output billing See rates Published units and conditions below
Specifications Access & pricing Caching Evaluation Sources & lifecycle
Specifications Provider-documented facts. “Not collected” means we have not verified that field yet, not that the feature is unsupported.
Context / input limit Not collected The card reports a zero context window for this non-generative model. This is not treated as a usable zero-token context.
Reasoning Not collected
Streaming Not collected
Knowledge cutoff Not collected
Parameters Not collected
Architecture Not collected
Access & pricing Prices belong to an endpoint and billing tier. A provider listing does not guarantee access for every account or region.
API model ID multimodal-embedding-v1
Access https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/api/v1/services/embeddings/multimodal-embedding/multimodal-embedding. Use a Beijing workspace API key.
Regions China (Beijing) Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.
Published billing units · original currency · observed 14 Oct 2026 Category Usage Rate Unit Embeddings Image/video input1 CN¥0.90 1M tokens Embeddings Text input1 CN¥0.70 1M tokens
Data & enterprise terms Regional retention and enterprise account terms have not been verified.
Caching Caching can reuse earlier input processing. Availability, lifetime and billing depend on the endpoint. A cache hit still generates a new response.
01 / INITIAL INPUT Process & retain The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.
02 / LATER REQUEST Check available state Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.
03 / CACHE HIT Reuse & generate Reusing state can reduce repeated work. Any charges follow the billing rules below.
Alibaba Model Studio · China (Beijing) multimodal-embedding-v1Not supported Support evidence (opens in a new tab) Caching reviewed 14 Oct 2026
What the measurements say No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.
Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.
The record behind the model Why it is included Classification inference: the official developer card distinguishes the commercial multimodal-embedding-v1 APIs from public GTE/GME checkpoints. The reviewed public inventory does not establish an exact weight release for this service. Private parameter counts, architecture and checkpoint equivalence remain undisclosed.
Classification evidence (opens in a new tab) Lifecycle dates Sources reviewed 