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Edge Security Acceleration:Choose a right plan

Last Updated:Jan 13, 2026

ESA offers four subscription plans: Entrance, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise. You can review the plan details below to choose the one that best fits your needs.

Watch the video below to help you choose the right plan.

Plan selection recommendations

Reference Item

Entrance

Pro

Premium

Enterprise

Target Users

Personal websites or cost-sensitive small businesses

Small and medium-sized enterprises

Medium and large enterprises

Large enterprises or those requiring custom solutions

Plan Price

0 USD/month

15 USD/month

249 USD/month

Contact sales for a custom plan.

Plan Features

image Free data transfer.

image Free requests.

image Committed SLA

image Accelerated API calls.

image Malicious scan detection and vulnerability prevention.

image Real-time logs.

image No charge for blocked data transfer.

image No charge for HTTPS or WAF requests.

image Twice the number of security rules as the Pro plan.

image Bot traffic protection.

image Waiting Room.

image Version Management.

image No charge for blocked data transfer.

image No charge for HTTPS or WAF requests.

image Layer 4 acceleration for TCP/UDP.

image Back-to-origin load balancing.

image Deep learning and protection.

image Advanced bot traffic protection.

image Instance-level Anti-DDoS protection.

Committed SLA

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Included Acceleration Traffic in Plan (Base Plan Fee)

None

500 GB

1500 GB

Contact our sales team for a custom solution.

Acceleration Region

Outside the Chinese mainland

Global (including the Chinese mainland)

Global (including the Chinese mainland)

Global (including the Chinese mainland)

Supported Capabilities

  • Basic site management capabilities

  • Basic security protection capabilities

  • Limited rule configuration

  • Basic edge computing capabilities

Built on Entrance:

  • Supports more site records

  • Supports more rules

  • Supports scheduled prefetch

  • Supports managed rules, scan protection slider challenges, origin protection, and other WAF protections

  • Supports cache analysis

Built on Pro:

  • Supports more site records

  • Supports more rules

  • Supports rules with regular expression operators

  • Supports strict slider

  • Supports Waiting Room and version management

Built on Premium:

  • Supports subdomain integration and site hold, among other site management features

  • Supports cache reserve and caching on special ports

  • Supports wildcard domain free certificates and client IP headers

  • Supports full native edge security protection features and advanced security analytics

  • Supports edge containers and TCP/UDP proxy

  • Supports ESA expert support services, etc.

Feature comparison details

Site-level basic configuration

Site management

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Website Management

NS setup

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

CNAME setup

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Add a subdomain

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Number of wildcard domains supported

1

2

3

Contact sales for custom solutions

Number of websites supported

1

1

1

Contact sales for custom solutions

Site Hold

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

CNAME Flattening

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supports 3 acceleration scenarios (API, image/video, web)

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

DNS configuration

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

DNS Management

Number of records per site

100

200

500

500

Supports 12 DNS Record Types

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

SaaS Manager

100

100

100

Contact sales for custom pricing

DNS Analytics

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Performance acceleration

Content delivery and caching

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Static Resource Acceleration

Global static content delivery

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Cache Analysis

Cache analysis

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Cache Configuration

Edge Cache TTL

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Browser Cache TTL

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Query string

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Query string sorting

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Tiered Cache

Edge Cache Layer

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge + Regional Cache Layers

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge + Intelligent Cache Layers

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge + Regional + Intelligent Cache Layers

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for custom pricing

Cache Reserve

Cache reserve

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for custom requirements

Cache Purge

Purge by URL

1000 times

50000 times

100000 times

500000 times

Purge by Directory

Not supported

100 times

1000 times

2000 times

Purge by Hostname

Not supported

100 times

1000 times

2000 times

Purge by Custom Cachekey

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

2000 times

Purge by URL, ignoring parameters

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

2000 times

Purge by Tag

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

2000 times

Purge All Cache

5 times

80 times

125 times

200 times

Cache Prefetch

Real-time prefetch

Not supported

50000 entries

100000 entries

500000 entries

Scheduled prefetch

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Cache Configuration

Development Mode

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Network and content optimization

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Network Optimization

IPv6

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

WebSocket

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

gRPC

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Protocol Optimization

HTTP/2

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

HTTP/3

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Content Optimization

Image Editing

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Set Resource Compression

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Security settings

SSL/TLS

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

SSL/TLS

Edge Certificate - Let's Encrypt Free Certificate

10

50

70

100

Edge Certificate - Digicert Free Certificate

Not supported

10

20

50

Edge Certificate - Upload Custom Certificate

5

10

20

50

Certificate Availability Check

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge Certificate - Force HTTPS

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge Certificate - TLS Cipher Suite and Protocol Version Configuration

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge Certificate - OCSP Stapling

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge Certificate - Opportunistic Encryption

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge Certificate - HSTS

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Origin Certificate - Origin Protocol and Port

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Origin Certificate - Origin Certificate Validation

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Origin Certificate - Bidirectional Origin Verification

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Intelligent protection

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Intelligent Protection

Enable Intelligent Rate Limiting

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

One-click Abuse Prevention

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

WAF

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

WAF

Custom Rules

5

20

100

100

Rate Limiting Rules

1

2

5

10

Rate Limiting - Statistical Interval Enumeration

Not supported

  • 10 seconds

  • 1 minute

  • 15 minutes

  • 10 seconds

  • 1 minute

  • 2 minutes

  • 5 minutes

  • 10 minutes

  • 15 minutes

  • 5 seconds

  • 10 seconds

  • 1 minute

  • 2 minutes

  • 5 minutes

  • 10 minutes

  • 15 minutes

  • 1 hour

Rate Limiting - Duration Enumeration

Not supported

  • 10 seconds

  • 1 minute

  • 10 minutes

  • 1 hour

  • 10 seconds

  • 1 minute

  • 2 minutes

  • 5 minutes

  • 10 minutes

  • 1 hour

  • 10 seconds

  • 1 minute

  • 2 minutes

  • 5 minutes

  • 10 minutes

  • 1 hour

  • 1 day

Rate Limiting - Characteristics

Not supported

  • Hostname

  • Client IP

  • Header

  • URI query string

  • Cookie value

  • Hostname

  • Client IP

  • Header

  • URI query string

  • Cookie value

  • URI

  • URI path

  • ASN number

  • Hostname

  • Client IP

  • Header

  • URI query string

  • Cookie value

  • URI

  • URI path

  • ASN number

  • URI specified query string

  • HTTP version

  • User Agent

  • X-Forwarded-For

  • MIME type

Rate Limiting - Apply to Cached Requests

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

IP Access Rules

50

200

400

400 entries

Whitelist Rules

2

3

5

10

Managed Rules

Supports basic rules

Supports all rules

Supports all rules

Supports all rules

Scan Protection Rules

Not supported

5

10

20

JS Challenge

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Slider Challenge

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Strict Slider

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Scenario-specific Policies

Account-level quota. Default rule limit: 10.

Custom Pages

Custom Rule Groups

IP CIDR Blocks / Groups

DDoS Alerting

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Layer 4 Proxy (Includes Layer 4 DDoS Protection)

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

DDoS

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

DDoS

DDoS Basic Protection

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Best-effort Protection

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for customization.

HTTP DDoS Attack Protection

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Deep Learning and Protection

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Scenario-based Policy

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Bot management

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Bot management

Simple Mode

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Professional Mode

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for custom solutions

Professional Bot Management with SDK

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for custom solutions.

Origin Protection

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Origin Protection

Origin Protection

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge Computing

Edge Computing

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Edge Computing

Edge Function Free Edition

100,000 requests/day

Edge Function Paid Edition

Pay-as-you-go

Contact sales for custom solutions

Function Routing

10

25

50

125

Edge Container

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Edge Storage

Pay-as-you-go

Supported

Rules

Rules

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Quick Start

Number of Nested Sub-conditions in a Rule

3

10

20

20

Operator - Regular Expression

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

HTTPS Rules

SSL/TLS Rules, HTTPS Rules (Shared Quota)

10

25

50

125

Security Rules

5

25

50

125

Transform Rules

Rewrite URL, Modify Outgoing Request Header, Modify Outgoing Response Header

10

25

50

125

Managed Transform - True-Client-IP Header

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Managed Transform - Client Geolocation Header

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Redirect Rules

URL Redirection

10

25

50

125

Cache Rules

Cache Eligibility, Browser Cache TTL, Edge Cache TTL, Status Code Cache TTL, Custom Cachekey

10

25

50

125

Custom Port Caching

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Cache on Expired Response

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Cache Reserve

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Network Optimization Rules

10

25

50

100 entries

Content Optimization Rules

File Compression, Image Optimization, Video Processing (Shared Quota)

10

25

50

100 entries

Origin Rules

Number of Rules

10

25

50

125 entries

Custom Origin Host

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Origin Protocol and Port

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Origin SNI

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

DNS Records

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Byte-range Segment

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Origin HTTP Request Timeout

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Configure Origin 301/302 Redirect Following

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Observability and analytics

Log service

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Log Collection

Standard Log

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Number of Real-time Log Push Tasks

Not supported

2 tasks/log type

3 tasks/log type

5 tasks/log type

Supported Destinations for Real-time Logs

Not supported

  • SLS

  • OSS

  • AWS S3

  • S3 compatible

  • Kafka

  • HTTP server

Supported Log Types for Real-time Collection

Not supported

  • Per site:

    • Access logs

    • Security protection logs

    • Layer 4 proxy logs

    • DNS logs

  • For all sites under the account:

    • Edge function logs

    • Edge container logs

Instant Log

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Data analytics

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Data Analytics

Traffic Analysis Filter Conditions

Country/Region, Host, Path, Query String, User Agent, Referer, Client IP, Client ASN, HTTP Version, HTTP Method, Cache Status, Device Type, Edge Status Code, Origin Status Code, Content Type, Browser Type, Operating System Type, X-Requested-With headers

Monitoring Query Time Range

31 days

62 days

92 days

185 days

Security Analytics

Security Analytics

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Security Analytics Pro

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

DDoS Analytics

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Attack Details

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Event Analysis

Event Analysis

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Compute Monitoring

Edge Function Monitoring

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Edge Storage Monitoring

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Other features

Other features

Category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Traffic

Smart Routing

Pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go

Contact sales for custom pricing

Waiting Room

Not supported

Not supported

1

1

Waiting Room Pro

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for custom solutions

Chinese Mainland Network Optimization

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for customization

Origin Pool

5

10

15

20

Origin Pool Server Limit

5

10

15

20

Load Balancing

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Contact sales for custom pricing

Layer 4 Proxy

Configuration

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Layer 4-proxied Site Records

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

10

Layer 4 Proxy Analytics

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Version Management

Version Management

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Max Number of Environments

Not supported

Not supported

3

10

Max Number of Versions

Not supported

Not supported

10

20

Compliance Certifications

MLPS Level 3

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

PCI DSS

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

ISO Certification

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Service

Alibaba Cloud After-sales Tickets

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

ESA Expert Service

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Other

Account Permission Management

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

OpenAPI

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported