Cloud · head to head · checked 8 August 2026
Alibaba Cloud vs Huawei Cloud
6 cloud instances from the two, side by side: what each plan includes, what it costs (on-demand hourly rate × 730 hours, no commitment discount), and where the price comes from.
Alibaba Cloud
from $16.79/mo
ecs.n4.small · 3 plans listed
Best price per vCPU: $16.79/vCPU (ecs.n4.small)
Huawei Cloud
from $11.02/mo
s6.medium.2 · 3 plans listed
Best price per vCPU: $10.75/vCPU (s6.xlarge.2)
Which is cheaper, Alibaba Cloud or Huawei Cloud?
Huawei Cloud's cheapest listed plan is s6.medium.2 at $11.02/mo; Alibaba Cloud's is ecs.n4.small at $16.79/mo. The price shown is on-demand hourly rate × 730 hours, no commitment discount.
Which gives more for the money, Alibaba Cloud or Huawei Cloud?
On price per vCPU, Huawei Cloud does best with s6.xlarge.2 at $10.75/vCPU; Alibaba Cloud's best is ecs.n4.small at $16.79/vCPU.
How many cloud instances does each offer here?
We list 3 for Alibaba Cloud and 3 for Huawei Cloud, each checked against the provider's own pricing page.
Alibaba Cloud
Everything from Alibaba Cloudecs.n4.smallapprox
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 2 GB
- Hourly
- $0.023
- Note
- Pay-as-you-go — system disk and public bandwidth billed separately
- Region
- Singapore
ecs.n4.largeapprox
- vCPU
- 2
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Hourly
- $0.047
- Note
- Pay-as-you-go — system disk and public bandwidth billed separately
- Region
- Singapore
ecs.n4.xlargeapprox
- vCPU
- 4
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Hourly
- $0.154
- Note
- Pay-as-you-go — system disk and public bandwidth billed separately
- Region
- Singapore
Huawei Cloud
Everything from Huawei Clouds6.medium.2approx
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 2 GB
- Hourly
- $0.0151
- Note
- Hourly derived from Huawei's Monthly package rate ($11/mo ÷ 730) — no pay-per-use hourly rate published for this region; EVS disk and bandwidth billed separately. Huawei's EIP (public IP) also carries its own reservation charge (~$0.009/hr, ~$6.57/mo) on top of bandwidth — not included in the price shown
- Region
- AP-Singapore
s6.large.2approx
- vCPU
- 2
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Hourly
- $0.0301
- Note
- Hourly derived from Huawei's Monthly package rate ($22/mo ÷ 730) — no pay-per-use hourly rate published for this region; EVS disk and bandwidth billed separately. Huawei's EIP (public IP) also carries its own reservation charge (~$0.009/hr, ~$6.57/mo) on top of bandwidth — not included in the price shown
- Region
- AP-Singapore
s6.xlarge.2approx
- vCPU
- 4
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Hourly
- $0.0589
- Note
- Hourly derived from Huawei's Monthly package rate ($43/mo ÷ 730) — no pay-per-use hourly rate published for this region; EVS disk and bandwidth billed separately. Huawei's EIP (public IP) also carries its own reservation charge (~$0.009/hr, ~$6.57/mo) on top of bandwidth — not included in the price shown
- Region
- AP-Singapore
Alibaba Cloud against the rest