Alibaba Cloud was founded in 2009.
It is headquartered in China.
It offers VPS, Database, Storage and Networking hosting products.
Alibaba Cloud plans specs and prices | Plans |
How fast are Alibaba Cloud servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
List of Alibaba Cloud trials | Trials |
Review CPU models found in Alibaba Cloud trials | CPUs |
Performance variations of Alibaba Cloud VPS over the long term | Consistency |
List of Alibaba Cloud yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Alibaba Cloud also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
For each Alibaba Cloud VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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45s | 30s | 60s | 2 |
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
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Snapshots | $0.018 |
US-East price.
Charges only for incremental size of the snapshot.
Snapshots are stored in object storage (OSS).
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/56159.htm |
First 5GB are free |
Object | $0.016 |
Standard Storage. Infrequent and Archive storage option are also available for lower prices.
https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/oss/pricing |
First 5GB free. |
Block | $0.030 |
"Ultra Disk" is $0.01/GB for Pay as you go in the US east region.
https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/nas/pricing |
Standard SSD Pay as You Go Network Access Storage in US East |
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Price |
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Instance Type: Other |
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Starter 1GB 1 core | 1 | 1.0GB | 25GB | $4.50 / month |
ecs.t5-lc1m1.small | 1 | 1.0GB | 40GB | $6.52 / month |
ecs.n4.small | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $13.66 / month |
ecs-t5-c1m1-large | 2 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $14.13 / month |
ecs.t6-c1m2.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $20.91 / month |
ecs.n4.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $35.41 / month |
ecs.c5.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $37.52 / month |
ecs.c6e.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $41.32 / month |
ecs.g6.large | 2 | 8.0GB | 0GB | $43.19 / month |
ecs.c7.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $49.32 / month |