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 Scaleway

  • Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
  • Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
  • Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
  • Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration Alibaba Cloud Scaleway
VM Small $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) $10.38 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) $40.47 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) $164.99 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0) $9.86 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes $15.05 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small) $11.95 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose) $33.21 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA) $36.32 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $27.24 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 10 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $74.00 $0.074 / GB Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

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

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.78 Launch
GPU-3070 1x RTX 3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.02 Source
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.29 Source
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 96GB $1.45 Launch
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.56 Source
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.62 Launch
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $2.91 Source
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.11 Source
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.23 Source
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $5.81 Source
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.23 Source
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $11.62 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 Scaleway offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud Scaleway
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
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Oct. 14, 2024, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2024.