Alibaba Cloud vs Nebius

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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

Nebius

Offers managed services alongside cloud GPUs
Based in the EU, may ease compliance

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Nebius?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Nebius
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$38.51 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$72.22 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$145.65 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$7.00 / mo 100 GB / mo
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$18.80 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	--
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	--
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	100 GB
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$15.00 $0.015 / 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

Nebius offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S PCIe	1x L40S	48GB	8	32GB	$1.58	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	20	160GB	$3.55	Launch
H100 SXM	2x H100	160GB	40	320GB	$7.10	Source
H100 SXM	4x H100	320GB	80	640GB	$14.20	Source
H200	8x H200	1128GB	--	--	$20.72	Source
H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	160	1280GB	$28.39	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 managed services that Alibaba Cloud and Nebius offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Nebius
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	Nebius
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	nebius.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	Netherlands 🇳🇱
Founded	2009	2022
Data Center Locations	30	2
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	JetBrains, Recraft, London Institute, Prisma Labs

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