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March 28, 2013

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Re: The AllianceBernstein Portfolios

– AllianceBernstein Growth Fund (the “Fund”)

File Nos. 33-12988 and 811-05088

Accession No. 0001193125-13-106519

Dear Sir or Madam:

On behalf of the Registrant and pursuant to Rule 497(e) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, we hereby submit exhibits containing interactive data format risk/return summary information for the Fund. The purpose of this filing is to submit the XBRL information from the 497(e) filing dated March 14, 2013 for the Fund.

Please call me at the above-referenced number if you have any questions regarding the attached.

Sincerely,

/s/ Joanne A. Skerrett

Joanne A. Skerrett

Attachment

Index to Exhibits

Exhibit No.	Description of Exhibits
EX-101.INS	XBRL Instance Document
EX-101.SCH	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
EX-101.CALC	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
EX-101.DEF	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
EX-101.LAB	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase
EX-101.PRE	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase