Comparison

Alibaba Cloud vs Exoscale

On the evidence we track, Exoscale leads this comparison with a composite score of 83/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Alibaba Cloud60
★Exoscale83
Score
vioscaleAI score
Alibaba Cloud60 / 100low · 49%
Exoscale83 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✗
Model
Alibaba Cloudfreemium
Exoscalecommercial
Price level
Alibaba Cloudlow
Exoscalelow
Starting price
Alibaba Cloud$0.99
Exoscale–
Transparent
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Integrations
Count
Alibaba Cloud1
Exoscale2
Security
Certifications
Exoscale–
Disclosure policy
Alibaba Cloud–
Exoscale✓
Fedramp
Alibaba Cloud–
Exoscale✓
Gdpr
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Hipaa
Alibaba Cloud–
Exoscale✓
Iso27001
Alibaba Cloud–
Exoscale✓
Pci
Alibaba Cloud–
Exoscale✓
Soc2
Alibaba Cloud–
Exoscale✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Alibaba Cloud–
Exoscale99.95
Status page
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Content
Faq
Alibaba Cloud5 items
Exoscale7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for cloud infrastructure. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Provider tier
Alibaba CloudHyperscaler
ExoscaleVPS / developer
Reach
Regions / global footprint
Alibaba CloudGlobal with significant Asia Pacific presence
Exoscale5 European regions (Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia)
Compute
Bare-metal servers
Alibaba Cloud-
Exoscale-
GPU / accelerated compute
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Spot / preemptible pricing
Alibaba Cloud-
Exoscale-
Storage
Object storage
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Block storage
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Managed
Managed Kubernetes
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Managed databases
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Serverless / FaaS
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale-
Network
VPC / private networking
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale-
Pricing
Free / low egress
Alibaba Cloud-
Exoscale-
Compliance
Data-residency / sovereign options
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale-
Ecosystem
Partner marketplace
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud provides a cloud computing infrastructure platform with strong capabilities in security, regulatory compliance, and multi-region deployment. The platform offers integrated services for compute, storage, networking, databases, and serverless computing across international and Asia-Pacific markets.

Independently observed

Exoscale

Leader

European cloud provider offering compute instances, managed Kubernetes, database services, object and block storage, and GPU servers across multiple European regions.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Alibaba Cloud

from $0.99/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $0.99/month for Simple Application Server instances

  • SAS 1vCPU 1GiB$0.99/month
  • SAS 2vCPU 2GiB$8/month
  • SAS 2vCPU 2GiB (Windows)$10/month
  • SAS 4vCPU 8GiB$32/month
as of verify ↗

Exoscale

Leader
from €0.01/moUsage-based

Pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing billed by the second, no upfront costs or commitments. Starting from €0.00729/hour.

  • Standard Micro€0.00729/hour
  • GPU A30 Small€1.226/hour
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✗
CLI
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✓
Hybrid
Alibaba Cloud✓
Exoscale✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Alibaba Cloud

1 total
  • Salesforce
Independently observed

Exoscale

Leader
4 total
  • Rancher
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Karpenter
Independently observed
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