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Alibaba Cloud vs Vercel

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
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

Vercel

Superb developer experience, from git push to deployed globally in seconds
First class support for Next.js and other frontend frameworks
Great API to issue custom domains for SaaS projects
Very active community and plenty of learning resources

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Vercel?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Vercel
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)	$151.38 / mo 1440h compute, 50 GB storage, 10 GB read/mo 5 GB write/mo
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	$90.72 / mo 10 req/s @ $0.35 per 100k reqs
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$108.75 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$150.00 $0.15 / GB from edge

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 Vercel offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Vercel
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	Vercel
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	vercel.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2015
Data Center Locations	30	18
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

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

	Vercel
Website	vercel.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2015
Data Center Locations	18
Example Customers	Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post