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 TensorWave

  • Their platform uses AMD's Instinct MI300X GPUs, which offer higher memory specs and processing power compared to Nvidia's H100
  • Native support for PyTorch and TensorFlow with no code changes
  • Immediate GPU availability and can reserve for up to 3 years

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against TensorWave?

Example configuration Alibaba Cloud TensorWave
VM Small $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) --
VM Medium $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) --
VM Large $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) --
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) --
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 --

TensorWave offers bare metal GPU nodes and fully managed Kubernetes clusters. You can reserve nodes for periods ranging from 6 months to 3 years.

While their pricing is not yet publicly available, you can request a quote on their website.

TensorWave offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs Total GPU Memory vCPUs RAM Price per hour
AMD MI300X 8x MI300X 1536GB -- -- On Request

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 of the managed services that Alibaba Cloud and TensorWave offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud TensorWave
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
TensorWave
Website tensorwave.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2023
Data Center Locations 2
Example Customers --

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for TensorWave on July 24, 2024.