According to 1M AI News monitoring, Alibaba Cloud announced adjustments to the free quota of API for Standard and Professional Edition users and introduced pay-as-you-go support.

For DataWorks Standard and Professional Edition users, the daily API call limit is removed;

For DataWorks Standard Edition, the free API quota is adjusted to 100,000 times/month, with any excess usage adopting pay-as-you-go via OpenAPI;

For DataWorks Professional Edition, the free API quota is adjusted to 500,000 times/month, with any excess usage adopting pay-as-you-go via OpenAPI;

DataWorks Basic and Enterprise Editions remain unchanged, and the QPS limits for each version remain unchanged.

Gradually released starting from April 14, 2026, and effective in all regions by April 23, 2026.