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Alibaba Cloud vs Hyperbolic

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What's good about...

Alibaba Cloud logo 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

Hyperbolic logo Hyperbolic

  • Single GPU to 1,000+ GPU clusters, InfiniBand up to 3.2 Tb/s
  • Virtual machine or bare metal, both with root SSH access
  • 99.5% uptime SLA, with self-serve reservations from one week
  • OpenAI-compatible inference API

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Hyperbolic?

VM Small

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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VM Medium

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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VM Large

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Block Storage

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Object Storage

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Load Balancer

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Managed PostgreSQL

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Managed Redis®*

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Free egress allowance

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
10 GB / mo
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$74.00 $0.074 / GB
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Hyperbolic logo Hyperbolic Pricing Details

Hyperbolic sells GPU capacity three ways:

  • On-Demand: billed hourly against prepaid credits, with the rate locked at instance creation.
  • Reserved: terms from one week, paid up front, with longer terms priced lower.
  • Private Cloud: dedicated clusters under a custom contract.

Storage volumes are billed hourly by provisioned size. On-demand rates are refreshed weekly to track supplier rates.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
On-DemandReserved (12mo)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Available Models

Alibaba Cloud offers 4 GPU models.

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
V100(14) T4(12) A10(26) P100(12)
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Alibaba Cloud and Hyperbolic offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud Hyperbolic
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

Website
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
www.alibabacloud.com
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
www.hyperbolic.ai
Headquarters
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
Singapore SG flag
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
United States of America US flag
Founded
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
2009
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
2022
Data Center Locations
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
30
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Example Customers
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic
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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Sept. 3, 2026, and for Hyperbolic on Aug. 14, 2026.