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
DigitalOcean
- Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
- Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
- Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
- There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online
Price comparison
How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against DigitalOcean?
Example configuration | Alibaba Cloud | DigitalOcean |
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VM Small | $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) | $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) |
VM Medium | $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) | $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) |
VM Large | $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) | $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) |
Block Storage | $11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0) | $10.00 / mo 100 GB |
Object Storage | $43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes | $20.00 / mo 1 TiB |
Load Balancer | $16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small) | $12.00 / mo |
Managed PostgreSQL | $114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose) | $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage |
Managed Redis®* | $43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA) | $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM |
Serverless 25M Executions | -- | $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration |
Free egress allowance | 10 GB / mo | 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $74.00 $0.074 / GB | $10.00 $0.01 / GB |
Alibaba Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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ecs.gn6i-c4g1.xlarge | 1x T4 | 16GB | 4 | 15GB | $1.18 | |
ecs.gn7i-c8g1.2xlarge | 1x A10 | 24GB | 8 | 30GB | $2.86 | |
ecs.gn6e-c12g1.3xlarge | 1x V100 | 32GB | 12 | 92GB | $3.51 |
DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nvidia H100 SXM | 1x H100 | 80GB | 20 | 240GB | $3.39 | Launch |
Nvidia H100 SXM | 8x H100 | 640GB | 160 | 1920GB | $23.92 | Launch |
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 DigitalOcean offer:
Service | Alibaba Cloud | DigitalOcean |
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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 | ||
Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
Alibaba Cloud | DigitalOcean | |
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Website | www.alibabacloud.com | digitalocean.com |
Headquarters | Singapore 🇸🇬 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2009 | 2011 |
Data Center Locations | 30 | 14 |
Example Customers | Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
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 |
DigitalOcean | |
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Website | digitalocean.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2011 |
Data Center Locations | 14 |
Example Customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
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More comparisonsOur data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Oct. 14, 2024, and for DigitalOcean on Oct. 2, 2024.