Alibaba Cloud
China's largest cloud provider, with a strong Asia-Pacific presence and ECS compute instances.
Last updated 2026-07-19
- Starting price
- $3.5/mo
- Uptime SLA
- 99.95%
- Storage
- SSD
- Regions
- 30
- Managed K8s
- Yes
- Compliance
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR
Best forAsia-Pacific presenceEnterprisesChina market access
Price history
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- Current
- $3.50/mo
- Lowest tracked
- $3.50/mo
- Highest tracked
- $3.50/mo
- Price changes
- 0
- Last checked
- Sep 26, 2026
Tracked since Sep 26, 2026. Alibaba Cloud hasn't changed this price in that time — we re-check it weekly, and each hollow point above is a check that found the same price.
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Products and pricing
15 tiers
Entry-level pre-configured compute instances (economy tier).
Linux
| Tier | Price | RAM | vCPU | Disk | Transfer | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB / 20 GB SSD | $3.5/mo | 512 MB | 1 vCPU | 20 GB SSD | 1024 GB | |
| Linux 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 20 GB SSD | $4.5/mo | 1 GB | 1 vCPU | 20 GB SSD | 1024 GB | |
| Linux 1 vCPU / 2 GB / 40 GB SSD | $9/mo | 2 GB | 1 vCPU | 40 GB SSD | 1536 GB | |
| Linux 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 60 GB SSD | $15/mo | 2 GB | 2 vCPU | 60 GB SSD | 2048 GB | |
| Linux 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB SSD | $19/mo | 4 GB | 2 vCPU | 80 GB SSD | 4096 GB | |
| Linux 2 vCPU / 8 GB / 160 GB SSD | $35/mo | 8 GB | 2 vCPU | 160 GB SSD | 5120 GB | |
| Linux 4 vCPU / 16 GB / 320 GB SSD | $70/mo | 16 GB | 4 vCPU | 320 GB SSD | 6144 GB |
Windows
| Tier | Price | RAM | vCPU | Disk | Transfer | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 40 GB SSD | $11/mo | 1 GB | 1 vCPU | 40 GB SSD | 1024 GB | |
| Windows 1 vCPU / 2 GB / 50 GB SSD | $19/mo | 2 GB | 1 vCPU | 50 GB SSD | 1536 GB | |
| Windows 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 60 GB SSD | $28/mo | 2 GB | 2 vCPU | 60 GB SSD | 2048 GB | |
| Windows 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB SSD | $38/mo | 4 GB | 2 vCPU | 80 GB SSD | 4096 GB | |
| Windows 2 vCPU / 8 GB / 160 GB SSD | $65/mo | 8 GB | 2 vCPU | 160 GB SSD | 5120 GB | |
| Windows 4 vCPU / 16 GB / 320 GB SSD | $110/mo | 16 GB | 4 vCPU | 320 GB SSD | 6144 GB |
Hidden costs
- Full ECS instance-family pricing requires logging into the console pricing calculator — only entry-level Simple Application Server tiers are publicly listed