Alibaba Cloud alternatives
Every VPS and cloud provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Alibaba Cloud's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Alibaba Cloud's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Oracle CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free credit
- DigitalOceanKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit
- HetznerDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- netcupContainers: Limited vs Supported
- OVHcloudDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- LeasewebEntry paid plan: €4.99/month excluding VAT for Leaseweb VPS 1 (4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe, 30 TB traffic)…
- KamateraKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free credit · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
- ContaboDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- CivoEntry paid plan: $5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM,…
- Linode (Akamai Cloud)Entry paid plan: $5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above…
- VultrEntry paid plan: $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6…
- UpCloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free credit
- IONOS VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
- Hostinger VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit
- RackNerdKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
Where Alibaba Cloud stands against these 15
Alibaba Cloud's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- No. 2 of the 10 alternatives that document it have one: DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud.
- Entry paid plan
- $4/month for SAS 2vCPU 0.5GiB (2 vCPUs, 0.5 GiB memory, 20 GiB system disk, up to 200 Mbit/s), the cheapest…Joint 4th cheapest of the 15 that document it. Cheapest: Vultr — $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6 only — and…
- Storage (entry plan)
- 20 GiB system disk on SAS 2vCPU 0.5GiB ($4/month, China (Hong Kong)), the cheapest Simple Application Server…11th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 100 GB SSD on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line; a paid Storage Extension doubles it.
- Memory (entry plan)
- 0.5 GiB on SAS 2vCPU 0.5GiB ($4/month, China (Hong Kong)), the cheapest Simple Application Server plan on the…Joint 13th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 8 GB RAM on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line.
- Regions
- 33 regions in the ECS regions-and-zones tables on 2026-09-27: 16 in China, including Hong Kong, and 17…4th highest of the 14 that document it. Highest: Oracle Cloud — 45 regions in the commercial-realm table of Oracle's Regions and Availability Domains page on 2026-09-25: 44…
- Uptime SLA
- 99.95% Monthly Uptime Percentage for Simple Application Server (paid use only), with service credits of 10%…Joint 5th highest of the 11 that document it. Highest: RackNerd — 99.999% for network transit and for electricity, measured monthly.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.