The Basics
Alibaba Cloud | Cloudflare | |
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Website | www.alibabacloud.com | cloudflare.com |
Headquarters | Singapore 🇸🇬 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2009 | 2009 |
Data Center Locations | 30 | 285 |
Example Customers | Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers | Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify |
Alibaba Cloud | |
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Website | www.alibabacloud.com |
Headquarters | Singapore 🇸🇬 |
Founded | 2009 |
Data Center Locations | 30 |
Example Customers | Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers |
Cloudflare | |
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Website | cloudflare.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2009 |
Data Center Locations | 285 |
Example Customers | Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify |
Cost Comparison
How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Cloudflare?
Example configuration | Alibaba Cloud | Cloudflare |
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VM Small | $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) | -- |
VM Medium | $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) | -- |
VM Large | $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) | -- |
Block Storage | $11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0) | -- |
Object Storage | $43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes | $19.86 / mo 1 TB |
Load Balancer | $16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small) | -- |
Managed PostgreSQL | $114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose) | -- |
Managed Redis®* | $43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA) | -- |
Serverless 25M Executions | -- | $82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration |
Free egress allowance | 10 GB / mo | -- |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $74.00 $0.074 / GB | Free for most services |
Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.
Which services do they offer?
Here are some of the managed services that Alibaba Cloud and Cloudflare offer:
Service | Alibaba Cloud | Cloudflare |
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Block Storage | -- | |
Content Delivery Network (CDN) | ||
Container Registry | -- | |
GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
Load Balancer | ||
Managed Containers | -- | |
Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
Managed MySQL | -- | |
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
Managed Redis®* | -- | |
Object Storage | ||
Serverless Cron Jobs | ||
Serverless Functions | ||
Static Sites |
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More comparisonsOur data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Feb. 14, 2024, and for Cloudflare on Feb. 9, 2024.