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 RunPod

  • Affordable GPUs in various configurations
  • Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
  • Available in 30+ regions across the world

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against RunPod?

Example configuration Alibaba Cloud RunPod
VM Small $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) $43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) $86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) $172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
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 --
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 --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $74.00 $0.074 / GB Free and unlimited

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

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
A30 1x A30 24GB 8 31GB $0.22 Source
RTX A4000 1x A4000 16GB 4 20GB $0.32 Source
A4500 1x A4500 20GB 4 29GB $0.34 Source
A5000 1x A5000 24GB 4 24GB $0.36 Source
A40 1x A40 48GB 9 50GB $0.39 Source
RTX4090 1x RTX 4090 24GB 5 30GB $0.69 Source
A6000 1x A6000 48GB 8 62GB $0.76 Source
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 12 62GB $0.86 Source
A6000 Ada 1x A6000 48GB 14 58GB $0.88 Source
L40 1x L40S 48GB 8 94GB $0.99 Source
A100 PCIe 1x A100 80GB 8 117GB $1.64 Source
A100 SXM 1x A100 80GB 16 125GB $1.89 Source
MI250 1x MI250 128GB -- -- $2.10 Source
H100 PCIe 1x H100 80GB 16 188GB $2.39 Source
H100 SXM 1x H100 80GB 16 125GB $2.99 Source
MI300X 1x MI300X 192GB 24 283GB $2.99 Source
H200 SXM 1x H200 141GB -- -- $3.99 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 RunPod offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud RunPod
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
Website www.alibabacloud.com
Headquarters Singapore 🇸🇬
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 30
Example Customers Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers
RunPod
Website www.runpod.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2022
Data Center Locations 24
Example Customers AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Oct. 14, 2024, and for RunPod on Nov. 9, 2024.