Alibaba Cloud vs CUDO Compute

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
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

CUDO Compute

Offers Bare Metal as a Service, and self-serve clusters
Fully managed service stack including hosted SLURM and Kubernetes
UK NVIDIA Cloud Partners, with thousands of GPUs globally
S3-compatible object storage

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against CUDO Compute?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	CUDO Compute
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$7.96 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$32.65 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$54.86 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$8.77 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$10.00 / mo 1 TB, currently no extra charges for bandwidth
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)	--
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	--

Alibaba Cloud GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
ecs.gn6i-c4g1.xlarge	1x T4	16GB	4	15GB	$1.18	Source
ecs.gn7i-c8g1.2xlarge	1x A10	24GB	8	30GB	$2.86	Source
ecs.gn6e-c12g1.3xlarge	1x V100	32GB	12	92GB	$3.51	Source

CUDO Compute GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
RTX A5000	1x A5000	24GB	16	--	$0.29	Source
V100	1x V100	16GB	14	--	$0.39	Source
A40	1x A40	48GB	18	--	$0.39	Source
RTX A6000	1x A6000	48GB	16	--	$0.45	Source
A800 PCIe	1x A800	80GB	12	--	$0.80	Source
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	22	--	$0.87	Source
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	16	--	$1.35	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	24	--	$2.25	Source
H100 PCIe	1x H100	94GB	24	--	$2.47	Source
GB200 NVL72	1x GB200 NVL72	1350GB	--	--	On Request	Source
RTX A4000 SFF Ada	1x A4000	20GB	--	--	On Request	Source
B100	1x B100	192GB	--	--	On Request	Source
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	On Request	Source
MI300	1x MI300X	192GB	--	--	On Request	Source
H200	1x H200	141GB	--	--	On Request	Source
RTX A4000	1x A4000	16GB	--	--	On Request	Source
HGX B200	1x B200	1400GB	--	--	On Request	Source

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 managed services that Alibaba Cloud and CUDO Compute offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	CUDO Compute
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		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Alibaba Cloud	CUDO Compute
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	www.cudocompute.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded	2009	2017
Data Center Locations	30	15
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Blendergrid, Nuco.cloud, dstack, MetaHub

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

	CUDO Compute
Website	www.cudocompute.com
Headquarters	United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	15
Example Customers	Blendergrid, Nuco.cloud, dstack, MetaHub