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Alibaba Cloud pricing
Alibaba Cloud publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Alibaba Cloud plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Pay-as-You-Go | Free | 4 | +$0/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free Trial
FreeThe entry tier. It covers free tier credits, ecs instances, cloud storage, limited resources.
Pay-as-You-Go
FreeOver Free Trial, this tier adds:
- Flexible billing
- No commitments
- Global reach
- Enterprise support
Where Alibaba Cloud stops being free
Free Trial, Free
- Free tier credits
- ECS instances
- Cloud storage
- Limited resources
No paid tier on record
Alibaba Cloud lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Alibaba Cloud feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Elastic Compute Service
- Object Storage Service
- RDS Database
- MaxCompute
- Function Compute
- CDN
- Load Balancer
- API Gateway
Integrations
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Security
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- Data encryption
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring Alibaba Cloud in for cloud compute and storage with a strong footprint in china and asia pacific, pay-as-you-go infrastructure without upfront commitment, committed-use discounts through savings plans for steady workloads, cdn and data transfer packages for content delivery. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Alibaba Cloud are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Alibaba Cloud
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and Free, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Alibaba Cloud runs on linux, windows, api, cli, and is published by Alibaba Cloud of Hangzhou, China. The full record is on the Alibaba Cloud review.
Alibaba Cloud pricing questions
- How much does Alibaba Cloud cost?
- Alibaba Cloud publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Trial up to Free for Pay-as-You-Go. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Alibaba Cloud have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Trial tier costs nothing and covers free tier credits, ecs instances, cloud storage.
- What is the difference between Free Trial and Pay-as-You-Go on Alibaba Cloud?
- Pay-as-You-Go costs Free against Free, and adds flexible billing, no commitments, global reach, enterprise support.
- What am I actually paying for with Alibaba Cloud?
- The record lists 20 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for cloud compute and storage with a strong footprint in china and asia pacific, pay-as-you-go infrastructure without upfront commitment, committed-use discounts through savings plans for steady workloads.
- Does Alibaba Cloud charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Alibaba Cloud prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Alibaba Cloud against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Alibaba Cloud to make a useful price comparison.