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Tencent Cloud pricing
Tencent 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
Tencent 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 trial credits, cvm instances, cloud storage, limited resources.
Pay-as-You-Go
FreeOver Free Trial, this tier adds:
- Flexible pricing
- No long-term contracts
- Global infrastructure
- 24/7 support
Where Tencent Cloud stops being free
Free Trial, Free
- Free trial credits
- CVM instances
- Cloud storage
- Limited resources
No paid tier on record
Tencent Cloud lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Tencent 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
- CVM - Cloud Virtual Machines
- COS - Cloud Object Storage
- TencentDB
- SCF - Serverless Computing
- CDN
- Load Balancer
- VPC
- API Gateway
Integrations
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Security
- Data encryption
- DDoS protection
- Firewall
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring Tencent Cloud in for gaming platforms, social media, video streaming, asia-pacific deployment, mobile applications. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Tencent Cloud are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud & Infrastructure
Too few cloud & infrastructure tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tencent Cloud (this page) | Free | usage-based | - | |
| DigitalOcean | Free, then $4/month | usage-based | - | vs Tencent Cloud |
| Chef | Free | open-source | - | vs Tencent Cloud |
| Alibaba Cloud | Free | usage-based | - | vs Tencent Cloud |
| Lambda (AWS Serverless) | Free | usage-based | - | vs Tencent Cloud |
| Contabo | €4.5/month | - | - | vs Tencent Cloud |
| Akamai | $1000/month | quote | - | vs Tencent Cloud |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Tencent Cloud badges page.
Before you pay for Tencent 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.
Tencent Cloud runs on linux, windows, api, cli, and is published by Tencent Cloud of Shenzhen, China. The full record is on the Tencent Cloud review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud & infrastructure tools.
Tencent Cloud pricing questions
- How much does Tencent Cloud cost?
- Tencent Cloud publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Trial up to Free for Pay-as-You-Go. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Tencent Cloud have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Trial tier costs nothing and covers free trial credits, cvm instances, cloud storage.
- What is the difference between Free Trial and Pay-as-You-Go on Tencent Cloud?
- Pay-as-You-Go costs Free against Free, and adds flexible pricing, no long-term contracts, global infrastructure, 24/7 support.
- Which cloud & infrastructure tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud & infrastructure tools listed alongside Tencent Cloud have a free tier: DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless), AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- What am I actually paying for with Tencent Cloud?
- The record lists 19 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for gaming platforms, social media, video streaming.
- Does Tencent 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 Tencent 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 Tencent Cloud against before paying?
- The closest cloud & infrastructure tools in this directory are DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Tencent Cloud covering price, platforms and features.