Alibaba Cloud vs Exoscale

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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

Exoscale

Wide range of managed services at competitive prices
Offers GPUs such as the Nvidia A40, P100, and V100
Based in Switzerland, may ease compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Exoscale?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Exoscale
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)
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	$19.80 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	1 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$20.00 $0.02 / GB

Alibaba Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:

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

Exoscale offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Small	1x P100	16GB	12	56GB	$1.17	Source
Small	1x V100	16GB	12	56GB	$1.38	Source
Medium	2x P100	32GB	16	90GB	$1.71	Source
Medium	2x V100	32GB	16	90GB	$2.01	Source
Small	1x A40	48GB	12	56GB	$2.14	Source
Large	3x P100	48GB	24	120GB	$2.25	Source
Large	3x V100	48GB	24	120GB	$2.65	Source
Huge	4x P100	64GB	48	225GB	$2.82	Source
Huge	4x V100	64GB	48	225GB	$3.32	Source
Medium	2x A40	96GB	24	120GB	$4.27	Source
Large	4x A40	192GB	48	224GB	$8.54	Source
Huge	8x A40	384GB	96	448GB	$17.06	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 Exoscale offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Exoscale
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	Exoscale
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	www.exoscale.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	Switzerland 🇨🇭
Founded	2009	2011
Data Center Locations	30	7
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	--

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