# Who does AppLovin Corporation pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/applovin · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-09-11T17:56:43.56218+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: AppLovin Corporation's confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties include Alphabet (Google) plus 1 undisclosed/aggregate relationship. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 2 cost edges, backed by 4 dated sources, 1 of them primary filings (as of 2026-09-11).

### Humans, Inc. (high)
- metric: Amount $50M · 2024 investment agreement · Committed investment in Humans Series C preferred stock
- note: AppLovin agreed to invest $50 million in Series C preferred stock of Humans, developer of the Flip Shop social-shopping app. It fully impaired the investment in 2025 after Humans' financial condition deteriorated.
- [confirms] SEC EDGAR (EN, filing, published 2026-02-19) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1751008/000175100826000010/app-20251231.htm: "invest $50.0 million in the Series C preferred stock financing"

### 알파벳 (구글) (high)  → /alphabet.md
- note: AppLovin uses Google Cloud services including GKE, Cloud CDN, Cloud Storage, and GPU virtual machines for its advertising and AI infrastructure. Its $702.8 million of non-cancelable purchase obligations at year-end 2025 covered an unnamed cloud arrangement, so that company-wide amount is not attributed to Google Cloud in this edge metric.
- [mentions] SEC EDGAR (EN, filing, published 2026-02-19) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1751008/000175100826000010/app-20251231.htm: "agreement for third-party cloud computing services"
- [confirms] Google Cloud (EN, ir, published 2023-12-12) https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/applovin-builds-ai-ad-platform-on-google-cloud-g2-vms/: "AppLovin upgraded the infrastructure supporting its AI advertising algorithm"
- [confirms] Google Cloud (EN, ir, published 2022-10-06) https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-modernization/applovin-powers-future-growth-with-google-cloud: "more than double its use of Google infrastructure and compute"

### Aerospike (mid)
- note: AppLovin uses Aerospike as a real-time data layer for device and user profiles needed in advertising decisions. License and service payments were not disclosed.
- [confirms] Aerospike (EN, ir, published 2026-01-20) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aerospike-inc-_fintech-adtech-aerospike-activity-7419419706853552128-Gyy9: "AppLovin handled 70B ad requests per day across 3B devices with sub-millisecond decisions"

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