Alibaba Cloud led the LLM Model-as-a-Service market in the first half, with a 47% share, followed by Z.AI with 11% and ByteDance-backed Volcano Engine at 10%, according to IDC's latest report. The Chinese MaaS market expanded 889% to CNY10.6 billion (USD1.6 billion) in the period from a year earlier, driven by a 433% surge in token consumption.