Alibaba Cloud vs Fly.io

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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

Fly.io

Excellent tooling and developer experience
Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
Wide range of instance configurations at competitive prices

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Fly.io?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Fly.io
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x)
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x)
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x)
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$15.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$21.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	$33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	--
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (Public network North America)

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

Fly.io offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	--	--	$1.25	Source
A10	1x A10	24GB	--	--	$1.50	Source
A100 40G PCIe	1x A100	40GB	--	--	$2.50	Source
A100 80G SXM	1x A100	80GB	--	--	$3.50	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 Fly.io offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Fly.io
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	Fly.io
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	fly.io
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2017
Data Center Locations	30	35
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

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

	Fly.io
Website	fly.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	35
Example Customers	Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch