Alibaba Cloud ESA provides Entrance, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise plans. You can choose which plan to purchase based on your needs.
Plan pricing and traffic quota
The supported features and traffic quota vary with the plan type. For information about supported features, see Select the right plan.
Plan type | Price | Traffic quota | Billing method |
Entrance | USD 0/month | None | Subscription |
Pro | USD 15/month | Includes 500 GB traffic for acceleration | |
Premium | USD 249/month | Includes 1,500 GB traffic for acceleration | |
Enterprise | Contact us to customize your Enterprise plan. | ||
Traffic quota refers to the total of request and response traffic. Only traffic between clients and Points of Presence (POPs) is billed. Origin traffic is free of charge.
You can select a subscription duration of 1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months, or 1 Year.
The validity period of a plan starts on the date when you purchase the plan and lasts for your subscription duration. For example, if you purchase a 3-month plan at 14:32:10 on June 25, 2024, the plan will expire at 00:00:00 on September 26, 2024.
ESA services calculate traffic using the following conversion factors: 1 GB = 1,000 MB, 1 TB = 1,000 GB, and so on.
Traffic quota rules
After you purchase a plan, the traffic quota is provided according to the following rules:
If the subscription does not cover a full calendar month, the traffic quota for that month is based on the proportion of the remaining time.
The calculated traffic quota is rounded up to the nearest integer.
Unused traffic quota cannot be carried over to the next month.
Example
User A purchased a 3-month Pro plan at 13:37:10 on June 26, 2024, and the plan is valid until 00:00:00 on September 27, 2024. The following table describes the traffic quota provided to User A each month in the validity period:
Month | Remaining hours in the month | Total hours in the month | Remaining time ratio | Traffic quota for the month |
June | 11 + 4 × 24 = 107 | 30 × 24 = 720 | 14.86111111% | 75 GB |
July | 31 × 24 = 744 | 31 × 24 = 744 | 100% | 500 GB |
August | 31 × 24 = 744 | 31 × 24 = 744 | 100% | 500 GB |
September | 26 × 24 = 624 | 30 × 24 = 720 | 86.666667% | 433 GB |
Pay-as-you-go billing for excess usage
If your traffic quota for the current month is exhausted, you can continue using ESA services. Traffic that exceeds the quota is billed according to your plan. Traffic bills are generated on an hourly basis. Each plan has its own billing standards.
Plan | Pricing for excess usage |
Pro | USD 0.03/GB |
Premium | USD 0.166/GB |
Billing examples
Example 1
A personal website of Customer B needs to integrate with ESA. Customer B estimates that the website will need about 2 TB of traffic per month and services including WAF protection, custom rules, whitelisting, rate limiting, and managed rules.
Customer B has specific requirements for WAF protection. They also do not wish to purchase additional DDoS mitigation, want to enable smart routing, and require real-time log delivery.
To meet these requirements, we recommend the Premium plan. If the actual usage for the month is 2.7 TB, the monthly cost is as follows:
Item | Usage | Plan content | Description |
Traffic | 2.7 TB | 1.5 TB | 1.5 TB of traffic is provided in the plan. The excess 1,200 GB of traffic is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Monthly cost: 249 + 1,200 × 0.166 = USD 448.2. |
WAF requests | 20 million | Unlimited | Included in the plan |
Static requests | 8 million | Unlimited | Included in the plan |
Dynamic requests | 20 million | Unlimited | Included in the plan |
Value-added services | Smart routing is a usage-based service charged according to the number of requests. The billing rate is USD 0.015 per 10,000 requests, with bills generated daily. | ||
The monthly cost for this customer is 249 + 1200 × 0.166 = USD 448.2 (excluding smart routing).
Example 2
A personal website of Customer C contains both dynamic and static content, with some content requiring Layer 4 acceleration. The monthly traffic usage is about 10 TB, with needs for DDoS protection against volumetric attack and business risk prevention for promotion abuse and other threats. The website also needs protection against SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and WebShell upload.
To meet these requirements, we recommend the Enterprise plan. Feel free to contact us to customize your plan.
Burst bandwidth
Your website's domain may experience sudden spikes in bandwidth usage. For burst bandwidth limits associated with your plan, see the following table:
Item | Entrance | Pro | Premium | Enterprise |
Burst bandwidth | 0 Gbps | 10 Gbps | 10 Gbps | N/A |
If you need to apply for additional bandwidth, contact your Alibaba account manager or contact the sales team. If your application is approved, we will bill you according to the negotiated pricing. If you didn't file an application or it is rejected, you will be billed at your current pricing. Final charges are shown on the ESA invoice.