ModelScope (Moda)

What is ModelScope?

ModelScope is a next-generation open-source Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) sharing platform, dedicated to providing general AI developers withflexible, easy-to-use, low-costone-stop model service solutions to make model applications simpler!

Through API-Inference servitization capability, the platform standardizes open-source models into callable API interfaces, allowing developers to lightly and quickly integrate model capabilities into various AI applications, supporting tool calls, prototype development and other innovative scenarios.

Core advantages

• ✅ Free quota: Provides daily 2000 free API calls per day(Billing rules)

• ✅ Rich model library: Covers 1000+ open-source models across NLP, CV, speech, multimodal, etc.

• ✅ Ready to use: No deployment required, quickly call via RESTful API

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Cherry Studio integration process

Step 1: Obtain ModelScope API token

1. Log in to the platform

   • Access ModelScope official website → Click the top rightLog in → Choose an authentication method

2. Create access token

   • Go to Account Settings → Access Tokens

   • Click Create new token → Fill in description → Copy the generated token(See the example page below)

   🔑 Important reminder: Token leakage will affect account security!

Step 2: Configure Cherry Studio

• Open Cherry Studio → Settings → Model Services → ModelScope

• In API Key Paste the copied token into the field

• Click Save Authorization complete

Step 3: Call the model API

1. Find models that support API

   • Access ModelScope model library

   • Filter conditions:Check API-Inference(or look for the API icon on the model card)

   The range of models covered by API-Inference is mainly determined by a model's popularity in the Modao community (referencing likes, downloads and other data). Therefore, after more capable and more popular next-generation open-source models are released, the supported model list will continue to be updated.

2. Obtain model ID

   • Enter the target model detail page → copy Model ID(formatted like damo/nlp_structbert_sentiment-classification_chinese-base)

3. Enter into Cherry Studio

   • On the Model Service configuration page's Model ID field enter the ID → select task type → complete configuration

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Billing and quota rules

Important notes

• 🎫 Free quota: Each user has 2000 API calls per day(*subject to the latest rules on the official website)

• 🔁 Quota reset: Automatically resets daily at 00:00 UTC+8,no cross-day accumulation or upgrades supported

• 💡 Overage handling:

  • After reaching the daily limit, the API will return a 429 error

  • Solutions: switch to a backup account / use another platform / optimize call frequency

Check remaining quota

• Log in to ModelScope → Click the top right Username → API usage

⚠️ Note: The inference API-Inference has a free daily quota of 2000 calls. For more calling needs, consider using cloud services such as Alibaba Cloud Bailline.