Alternatives to Alibaba Cloud
These featured providers are the closest alternatives to Alibaba Cloud, selected using provider category, data-center locations, entry prices and comparable VPS plans.
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Price and performance at a glance
Performance is a price-weighted score (out of 100). Entry price is the lowest current monthly VPS price we track.
Price-weighted performance
The score averages the price-weighted scores of each provider's three most recent graded trials (or all available trials when fewer than three exist). A plan score combines web performance, raw CPU capacity, performance stability, disk I/O and network performance; lower plan prices improve the price-weighted score. 100 is best.
Entry monthly price
This is each provider's lowest current monthly VPS price, converted to USD. Bar lengths are relative to the highest entry price shown.
Comparable VPS plans
These plans are all in the same mid-price price band: each alternative plan must be within 30% below or 40% above the selected Alibaba Cloud plan price. Prices are converted to USD for an easier comparison.
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | CPU | Memory | Disk | Data transfer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | ecs.c5.large | $37.520 | 2 | 4.0 GB | 40 GB | 1000 |
| Vultr | CPU Optimized 2-4-50 | $40 | 2 | 4.0 GB | 50 GB | 5000 |
| Alibaba Cloud | ecs.c5.large | $37.520 | 2 | 4.0 GB | 40 GB | 1000 |
| Evoxt | VM-8 | $47.990 | 8 | 16.0 GB | 80 GB | 6000 |
| Alibaba Cloud | ecs.c5.large | $37.520 | 2 | 4.0 GB | 40 GB | 1000 |
| Contabo | Cloud VDS S | $45.630 | 6 | 24.0 GB | 180 GB | Unlimited |
| Alibaba Cloud | ecs.c5.large | $37.520 | 2 | 4.0 GB | 40 GB | 1000 |
| Kamatera | General 4GB 2 cores | $42 | 2 | 4.0 GB | 40 GB | 5000 |
Storage prices
Object and block storage prices for Alibaba Cloud and its selected alternatives. Pricing details vary by product and region.
Object storage
| Provider | Product | Price / GB / month | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud |
Standard Storage LRS
OSS: Standard Storage. Infrequent and Archive storage option are also available for lower prices. |
$0.016 |
Egress: $0.090 / GB
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| Contabo |
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S3-compatibility and built-in redundancy. No charges for data transfer and no long-term commitments. |
0.010€ ($0.012) |
Egress: 0.000€ ($0.000) / GB
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| Vultr |
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Includes 1TB of bandwidth. |
$0.006 |
Egress: $0.010 / GB
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Block storage
| Provider | Product | Price / GB / month | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud |
Enhanced SSD PL0
Alibaba Cloud enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) use 25 Gigabit Ethernet and remote direct memory access (RDMA) to reduce latency and deliver up to 1,000,000 random read/write IOPS per disk. |
$0.076 |
IOPS price:
$0.000 IOPS allowance: 3000 Throughput price per MBps: $0.000 Throughput allowance MBps: 125 MBps View provider pricing |
| Alibaba Cloud |
Enhanced SSD PL1
Alibaba Cloud enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) use 25 Gigabit Ethernet and remote direct memory access (RDMA) to reduce latency and deliver up to 1,000,000 random read/write IOPS per disk. |
$0.152 |
IOPS price:
$0.000 IOPS allowance: 6800 Throughput price per MBps: $0.000 Throughput allowance MBps: 170 MBps View provider pricing |
| Kamatera |
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The Cloud Block Storage engine is a fully redundant, enterprise-grade storage system. Storage pricing is calculated by the minute. |
$0.050 |
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| Vultr |
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Each volume is replicated 3 times across a highly available cluster. |
$0.100 |
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Features and locations
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| Feature | Alibaba Cloud | Vultr | Evoxt | Contabo | Kamatera |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | China | USA | Malaysia | Germany | Israel |
| Locations | Asia: 11 Europe: 2 North America: 1 Oceania: 2 | Africa: 1 Asia: 5 Europe: 6 North America: 3 South America: 2 Oceania: 1 | Asia: 5 Europe: 5 North America: 2 Oceania: 1 | Asia: 3 Europe: 3 North America: 1 Oceania: 1 | Asia: 4 Europe: 6 North America: 2 Oceania: 1 |
| Backups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Block storage | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Object storage | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Load balancer | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| DDoS protection | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hourly Billing | Mixed | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Backups | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Firewall | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| IPv6 support | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 29 | 31 | 17 | 12 | 24 |
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Price and performance by plan
Each dot is a plan used in the price-weighted performance chart above. Its vertical position is the average PW score from its contributing recent trials.