Alice 30B

What is Alice 30B?

Alice 30B is not currently supported by the supplied official evidence as a distinct, publicly documented Yandex model. The name suggests a model associated with Yandex's Alice brand and possibly a model with approximately 30 billion parameters, but that interpretation is not verified. A parameter count should not be treated as a confirmed specification simply because it appears in a product name.

Yandex's current consumer product is generally presented as Alice AI, an assistant integrated into Yandex services. That consumer product is not the same thing as a confirmed model called Alice 30B. Alice AI can combine conversational assistance with Yandex services and other capabilities, but the available research does not establish which underlying model is used for a particular response or whether a model named Alice 30B is involved.

Verification status and current catalog position

The strongest conclusion available from the research is that Alice 30B is unverified. Yandex AI Studio's authoritative model documentation does not identify an independently named Yandex Alice 30B model. The current AI Studio pricing catalog also does not list it. Yandex's official Hugging Face organization lists AliceAI-T5-35B-A0.6B and AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base, but not Alice 30B.

This means Alice 30B cannot reliably be placed in Yandex's current model lineup. It may be an outdated name, an unofficial reference, a mistaken conflation with another Alice-branded model, or an internal or limited-access system that is not documented in the cited public catalogs. The supplied sources do not distinguish between these possibilities.

What can be confirmed about Yandex's Alice ecosystem?

Yandex provides Alice AI as a consumer-facing assistant through the Alice web chat and Yandex applications, with availability depending on region, account type, and service. The broader ecosystem includes web, iOS and Android applications, Yandex Browser, Yandex Search, Yandex Station smart speakers, compatible smart TVs, and other Yandex products.

At the product level, Yandex describes Alice AI as supporting conversational interaction, voice use, search-backed answers, image and video responses, image generation, photo animation, file uploads and analysis, browser-based page understanding, and agentic research workflows. These are capabilities of the broader Alice AI product ecosystem, not verified specifications of Alice 30B. It would therefore be inaccurate to claim that Alice 30B itself supports every one of these modalities or workflows.

Yandex also provides separate developer services through Yandex Cloud AI Studio. Access to those services requires a Yandex Cloud account, billing configuration, permissions, and authentication. The existence of Yandex Cloud APIs does not prove that Alice 30B is available through them. The supplied research specifically finds no confirmed public endpoint or model identifier for Alice 30B.

Technical specifications: what is unknown

No reliable specification sheet for Alice 30B is included in the supplied research. The following details should therefore be treated as unknown rather than estimated:

• Parameter count and model architecture.
• Release date, version history, and current status.
• Context window or maximum input length.
• Maximum output-token limit.
• Training-data cutoff.
• Supported text, image, audio, or video inputs.
• Whether it can directly generate images, audio, or video.
• Reasoning, coding, structured-output, or JSON capabilities.
• Tool calling, function calling, web search, or code-execution support.
• Fine-tuning, caching, streaming, batch processing, or other API features.

In particular, “30B” cannot be used to infer quality, speed, cost, context length, or reasoning performance. Models with similar parameter counts can differ substantially because of architecture, training, quantization, serving hardware, and inference settings.

Pricing and access

No price for Alice 30B is verified. The cited Yandex AI Studio pricing page does not list a model with this name, so there is no defensible input-token price, output-token price, subscription fee, or free-tier allowance to report for it.

Yandex's broader offerings have several separate access paths. Alice AI is available through consumer interfaces with free access subject to regional availability, service limits, and account requirements. Some enhanced consumer features are associated with Alice Plus or Yandex 360 plans. Yandex Cloud AI Studio is a separate developer product with its own account, billing, permissions, and authentication requirements. None of these access arrangements confirms that Alice 30B is included.

Readers should be cautious with third-party pages that quote a price or API endpoint for Alice 30B without linking to a current Yandex catalog entry. A price may refer to Alice AI generally, another Yandex model, a reseller, or an unofficial deployment.

Capabilities and limitations

Because Alice 30B is not verified, its capabilities cannot be scored responsibly. There is no supplied evidence establishing that it is a text-only language model, a multimodal model, a reasoning model, or a model optimized for coding. There is also no provider-published benchmark evidence in the research that would support comparisons with other language models.

The main practical limitation is therefore identification rather than a known weakness in model quality. A user cannot confidently select an appropriate context window, estimate serving cost, choose an SDK, or design a tool-calling workflow around an undocumented model name. This matters especially in production: an ambiguous model identifier can make behavior, availability, billing, and future compatibility difficult to verify.

By contrast, the Alice AI product itself is known for strong Russian-language localization and integration with Yandex Search, Maps, Mail, Disk, Browser, smart-home products, speakers, and related services. Yandex also describes current-information retrieval through its services and a range of consumer and business workflows. Those provider-level strengths may make Alice AI useful, but they should not be attributed specifically to Alice 30B without model-level documentation.

When to choose this model

There is no sound basis for choosing Alice 30B as a production model or API target while its identity remains unverified. A reader might encounter the name in an old article, an informal benchmark, a third-party interface, or a dataset. In that situation, first request the exact Yandex model identifier, documentation URL, deployment region, access method, and pricing reference.

Choose the broader Alice AI product instead when your priority is Russian-language conversational assistance, Yandex Search integration, voice interaction, everyday tasks, or access through Yandex consumer applications. Choose Yandex Cloud AI Studio when you need a documented developer service and can confirm that the specific model you require appears in its current catalog.

For coding, structured output, long-context work, advanced reasoning, or international availability, another documented model may be more appropriate if Yandex's published materials do not provide the required guarantees. The relevant comparison should be made against verified model identifiers and published limits, not against the unconfirmed Alice 30B label.

Bottom line

Alice 30B should currently be treated as an unverified Yandex model name. Officially cited Yandex sources do not list it in the AI Studio documentation or pricing catalog, and Yandex's official Hugging Face catalog does not contain a model with that name. The responsible assessment is therefore not that Alice 30B is fast, capable, inexpensive, multimodal, or API-ready, but that its specifications and availability have not been established.

Yandex's Alice AI ecosystem is a real and broad consumer platform, and Yandex publishes other AliceAI model names. Those facts provide useful context but do not validate Alice 30B. Until Yandex publishes a matching model record, users should avoid relying on the name for procurement, technical integration, benchmarking, or capability claims.