Alibaba Cloud Hyperscaler

Alibaba

Hyperscalers are organizations that operate massive-scale data centers providing a wide range of cloud computing services, storage, and networking infrastructure to businesses and individuals globally. They are characterized by their ability to achieve economies of scale, offer extreme scalability, and maintain high levels of reliability and efficiency.

About Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud was founded as a VPS provider in 2009.
It is headquartered in China.
It offers VPS, Database, Storage and Networking hosting products.

Locations

  • Australia
  • Australia
  • China
  • Germany
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Thailand
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Services

Block Storage

Name
Price / GB / month
Description IOPS and Throughput prices
Product name: Enhanced SSD PL1
$0.152 / GB / month

Pay as You Go in US East. IOPS and throughput for a 100GiB disk.

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.
See ESSD docs for performance formulas.
IOPS and Throughput purchased separately: no
IOPS and Throughput proportional to storage size: yes


Alibaba Cloud block storage
IOPS price: $0.000
IOPS allowance: 6800
Throughput price per MBps: $0.000
Throughput allowance MBps: 170 MBps
Product name: Enhanced SSD PL0
$0.076 / GB / month

Pay as You Go in US East. IOPS and throughput for a 100GiB disk.

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.
PL0: Moderate I/O performance and relatively low I/O latency .
See ESSD docs for performance formulas.


Alibaba Cloud block storage
IOPS price: $0.000
IOPS allowance: 3000
Throughput price per MBps: $0.000
Throughput allowance MBps: 125 MBps

Object Storage

Price / GB / month Description Egress & Request Pricing
Product name: Standard Storage LRS
$0.016 / GB / month

First 5GB free and first 500 millions read requests free.

OSS: Standard Storage. Infrequent and Archive storage option are also available for lower prices.


Alibaba Cloud object storage
Bandwidth Price: Alibaba Cloud - Standard Storage LRS
100,000 reads: $0.010
100,000 writes: $0.140

Network

Description Price / GB
Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
Free allowance: 0 GB / month
Product range: Pay-as-you-go price.
Transfer pool: yes
Network transfer billing is tied to the IP address you use at Alibaba. An EIP configuration fee per IP ($0.005/hour) is added to the transfer fee per GB.
Alibaba Cloud networking

Flat pricing:

$0.076 / GB
Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
Free allowance: 100 GB / month
Transfer pool: no
Network egress pricing for Alibaba Cloud Object Storage (Standard Storage LRS)
Alibaba Cloud networking

Tiered pricing:

Between 0TB and 10TB$0.0900 / GB
Between 10TB and 50TB$0.0690 / GB
Between 50TB and 150TB$0.0600 / GB
Above 150TB$0.0430 / GB

Managed Databases

This is for a managed stand-alone on-demand Postgresql instance running in us-east on a 8 cores 32GB server unless mentioned otherwise. Reported storage is capacity pricing per GB per month. IOPS and thhroughput costs might be extra.

Load Balancers

This is the pricing for a regional layer 7 load balancer running in us-east or central.

There are two pricing models for load balancers: Data Volume based and LCU based. The former is the most simple, you are charged primarily by the amount of data that goes in and out of the load balancer.

LCUs (Load Capacity Unit) measure the highest usage across a number of dimensions, usually new connections, active connections, processed bytes, and rule evaluations. The LCU includes a defined capacity in each of those dimensions and you are charged based on the maximum usage among these dimensions per hour. For example if one LCU includes a maximum of 1000 active connections and your usage was 12000 at one point during the hour, you are charged for 12 LCUs.

In all pricing models a base hourly price is added to the LCU or data processing cost.
Data transfer charges are extra unless mentioned otherwise. See network traffic for network prices.

Name Pricing Limits
Server Load Balancer
Variant: Basic Application Load Balancer
Basic ALB price includes 1 LCU
Pricing Model: LCU
Hourly charge:  $0.007 / hour
LCU charge:  $0.007 / hour
SSL Termination: yes
Network traffic charged extra: yes
Active Connections: 3000
New Connections Per Sec: 25
Rules Evaluations Per Sec: 1000
Data Processing Gb Per Hour: 1

Instance Types

Cloud Server Plans

See all plans
Note: This is not an exhaustive list of plans and instance types offered by Alibaba Cloud. Only plans that have been tested by VPSBenchmarks or may be tested in the future are included.
Plan Number of CPU cores RAM Storage Monthly Price
Instance Type:
General Purpose

No description

Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
g9i

The Alibaba Cloud g9i instance family is a general-purpose instance type utilizing the innovative Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture and Intel® Xeon® 6 processors with P-cores. These instances offer consistent computing power, a robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening. They are designed for a wide range of demanding applications, including game servers, databases, caches, search clusters, web and application servers, and data analytics, providing a 1:4 CPU-to-memory ratio and high network performance.

VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet.
Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
g8a

Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.7 GHz AMD EPYCTM Genoa 9T24 processors that deliver a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled.

Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
g8i

The Alibaba Cloud ECS g8i instance family is a general-purpose offering utilizing the innovative CIPU architecture. It features 4th and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (including Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids) with a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, providing consistent computing performance and a robust I/O engine. These instances offer chip-level security hardening and hardware acceleration for cryptographic and AI workloads (like Intel QAT and Intel AMX). They are suitable for a wide range of enterprise-level applications, including game servers, databases, caches, search clusters, websites, application servers, data analytics, computing, AI training and inference, and audio/video transcoding.

Instance Type:
Other

No description

Provider page for instance type: /hyperscalers/alibaba_cloud

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