01 The short version
A pragmatic second mainland option, particularly where Alibaba Cloud quota is tight or where an existing WeChat or game-adjacent integration already lives here.
- GPU pricing is frequently below the equivalent Alibaba Cloud SKU — always get both quotes.
- TKE is a competent managed Kubernetes; the serving layer ports across without drama.
- Same ICP requirement as any mainland hosting.
- Documentation in English lags the Chinese version by a wide margin. Factor that into estimates.
02 What we do here
BUILD
Inference on Tencent
Open-weight models running on Tencent capacity, gateway routing in front, full cost and usage records underneath, the networking and IAM to hold it together. Deployed in your account with Terraform you keep.
RUN
Operate it monthly
Capacity planning against Tencent quota and pricing, model rotations, incident response, and a monthly report that reconciles against your actual Tencent invoice.
FOUNDATION
Accounts, network, IAM
If the Tencent footprint does not exist yet, or exists as one account somebody made in 2021, we build the landing zone underneath before anything else goes on top.
03 The others
We are not loyal to any of them. The right platform is the one where your data already is, your latency is acceptable and the GPUs are actually available this quarter — and that answer changes.