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

Alibaba Cloud logo Koyeb

  • Generous free tier, competitive pricing
  • Easy to use, integrations with popular tools such as Terraform and Pulumi
  • Serverless PostgreSQL available
  • Based in the EU, may ease compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Koyeb?

Example configuration Alibaba Cloud Koyeb
VM Small $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) $10.71 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (eMedium)
VM Medium $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) $42.85 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (eXLarge)
VM Large $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) $85.71 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (e2XLarge)
Block Storage $11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0) --
Object Storage $43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes --
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) $104.81 / mo 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Large), 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 $40.00 $0.04 / 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

Koyeb offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
RTX4000-SFF-ADA 1x RTX4000 20GB 6 44GB $0.50 Source
V100-SXM2 1x V100 16GB 8 44GB $0.85 Source
L4 1x L4 24GB 15 44GB $1.00 Source
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 30 92GB $2.00 Source
A100 1x A100 80GB 15 180GB $2.70 Source
H100 1x H100 80GB 15 180GB $3.30 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 Koyeb offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud Koyeb
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

Alibaba Cloud
Website www.alibabacloud.com
Headquarters Singapore 🇸🇬
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 30
Example Customers Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers
Koyeb
Website koyeb.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 6
Example Customers Tesla, Equinix, Upstash, MongoDB, Kong, Aiven

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Oct. 14, 2024, and for Koyeb on Nov. 12, 2024.