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Alibaba Cloud vs Cloudflare

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Alibaba Cloud

Strong presence in Asia and over 3,000 points of presence (POPs) around the world
Extensive range of managed services and server configurations
Offers a solid range of GPU servers

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Cloudflare?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Cloudflare
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: Our 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
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

Company details

	Alibaba Cloud	Cloudflare
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
Website	www.alibabacloud.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	30
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify