CDN · head to head · checked 8 August 2026
Alibaba Cloud CDN vs Cloudflare
3 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)
Cloudflare
from $0/mo
Free · 2 plans listed
Which is cheaper, Alibaba Cloud CDN or Cloudflare?
Cloudflare's cheapest listed plan is Free at $0/mo; Alibaba Cloud CDN's is Pay-as-you-go at $140/mo.
How many CDN plans does each offer here?
We list 1 for Alibaba Cloud CDN and 2 for Cloudflare, 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)
Cloudflare
Everything from CloudflareFree
- Pricing
- Flat monthly
- Points of presence
- 300
- Note
- Unmetered bandwidth (fair use) — CDN, DDoS protection, SSL included
- Region
- 300+ cities, global anycast
Pro
- Pricing
- Flat monthly
- Points of presence
- 300
- Note
- Unmetered bandwidth, annual billing — adds image optimization, AMP
- Region
- 300+ cities, global anycast
Alibaba Cloud CDN against the rest
How this page is made: every figure above is computed from the plans listed, which were checked against each provider's own pricing page (linked per plan, with the date). Nothing here is ranked by who pays us. The highlighted plan is each provider's best on price per GB delivered. Non-USD prices are converted at an approximate fixed rate for comparison only. See our methodology and how we make money.