CDN · head to head · checked 8 August 2026
Alibaba Cloud CDN vs Amazon CloudFront
2 CDN plans from the two, side by side: what each plan includes, what it costs, and where the price comes from.
Alibaba Cloud CDN
from $140/mo
Pay-as-you-go · 1 plans listed
Best price per GB delivered: $0.070/GB (Pay-as-you-go)
Amazon CloudFront
from $85/mo
Pay-as-you-go · 1 plans listed
Best price per GB delivered: $0.085/GB (Pay-as-you-go)
Which is cheaper, Alibaba Cloud CDN or Amazon CloudFront?
Amazon CloudFront's cheapest listed plan is Pay-as-you-go at $85/mo; Alibaba Cloud CDN's is Pay-as-you-go at $140/mo.
Which gives more for the money, Alibaba Cloud CDN or Amazon CloudFront?
On price per GB delivered, Alibaba Cloud CDN does best with Pay-as-you-go at $0.070/GB; Amazon CloudFront's best is Pay-as-you-go at $0.085/GB.
How many CDN plans does each offer here?
We list 1 for Alibaba Cloud CDN and 1 for Amazon CloudFront, each checked against the provider's own pricing page.
Alibaba Cloud CDN
Everything from Alibaba Cloud CDNPay-as-you-go
- Pricing
- Pay as you go
- Per GB
- $0.070
- Points of presence
- 900
- Note
- $0.07/GB NA+EU tier for 0–50TB/mo, steps down at higher volume — pricier in Asia Pacific/MEA/LatAm ($0.081–0.108/GB). Bandwidth only — requests billed separately ($0.008/10,000 static, $0.024/10,000 dynamic), not included here
- Region
- North America & Europe (cheapest tier)
Amazon CloudFront
Everything from Amazon CloudFrontPay-as-you-goapprox
- Pricing
- Pay as you go
- Per GB
- $0.085
- Free allowance
- 1000 GB
- Points of presence
- 600
- Note
- First 1 TB/mo free indefinitely, then $0.085/GB US/EU first 10 TB — price shown is bandwidth only; HTTPS requests are billed separately ($0.01/10,000 after a 10M/mo free tier), not included here, unlike KeyCDN/Bunny/Cloudflare which don't meter requests
- Region
- US, Canada, Mexico, Europe
Alibaba Cloud CDN against the rest