Alibaba vs Decart

Alibaba — Foundation Models · Public · $273.4B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Decart — Foundation Models · Private · $4B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service and Decart Optimization Stack do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 16 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

4 of 16 capabilities — Shares model hosting, model inference, model training and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship API service, application, infrastructure service and 1 more.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Decart: $4B valuation, against Alibaba's $273.4B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldAlibabaDecart
Size$273.4B mkt cap$4B valuation different basis
Employees131,462—
Founded19992023 24 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryFoundation ModelsFoundation Models match
Stack layerAI agent, API service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model API, PlatformAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model API
HeadquartersHangzhou, ChinaTel Aviv, Israel

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Model hostingModel inferenceModel trainingText generation

Not verified for Decart · 12

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingAI compute hardwareCode generationCode reviewData labellingDocument extractionGPU cloudImage generationSummarizationTranslationSearch answers

Recorded for Alibaba. Decart’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Alibaba · 4

GPU programmingImage editingVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for Decart. Alibaba’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Alibaba

Application

QuarkApplication

Alibaba's AI assistant app combining chat, search, document processing and image generation across web, mobile and desktop.

QwenApplication

Alibaba's assistant app for chat, image and document tasks, built on the Qwen models.

API service

Alibaba Cloud Machine TranslationAPI service

API-based neural machine translation service for text and document translation.

Infrastructure service

Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU ServiceInfrastructure service

On-demand GPU compute service for AI training, inference and high-performance computing workloads.

Model API

Alibaba Cloud Model StudioModel API

Alibaba Cloud service that serves Qwen and third-party models behind one API, with fine-tuning and agent tooling.

Decart

Application

Delulu (by Decart)Application

Delulu is Decart's consumer mobile app for AI photo transformation, published on iOS and Android by Decart.AI, Inc. Its store listing describes it as a way to 'Turn any photo into something fun, weird, or just really good-looking, with a single tap', browsing preset styles and creating stickers to share.

LucyApplication

Real-time video editing platform that edits and transforms live video at streaming speed, for enterprises, brands, creators and live/streaming/gaming use cases; built on Decart's DOS infrastructure.

API service

Oasis 3API service

Interactive world model for Physical AI, generating realistic, controllable real-time simulation environments for training autonomous systems, distributed as an API/SDK product built on Decart's Optimization Stack (DOS) infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

Decart Optimization StackInfrastructure service

The Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) is Decart's inference and training optimization infrastructure, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers and inference optimization. It is sold to hardware providers and AI teams as engagements covering benchmark optimization, customer-defined kernel and compiler work, cross-workload efficiency gains, and profiler and simulator licensing, and is marketed as hardware-agnostic across GPUs, TPUs, Trainium and AMD accelerators.

Model API

CogitoModel API

Cogito is Decart's OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API, serving frontier open-weight models including Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, GLM-5.2, Qwen3 235B and GPT-OSS 120B across Trainium, TPU and GPU capacity. A self-serve Standard tier is billed per token, while an ultra-fast reserved tier advertises 1,000+ tokens per second. It is built on Decart's own DOS optimization stack.

Decart API PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Decart's real-time video and world models.

No counterpart

Alibaba sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Decart yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Qwen CodeAI agent

Open-source terminal-based AI coding agent built on the Qwen model family.

Platform

Alibaba Cloud Platform for AI (PAI)Platform

End-to-end machine-learning platform covering data labelling, model development and training, and model deployment and inference.

ModelScopePlatform

Alibaba Cloud's open model community and hub for discovering, running and deploying pretrained models.