🆚 Alibaba Cloud OSS vs. Cloudflare R2

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Cloudflare R2 is slightly more popular than Alibaba Cloud OSS.
🌎 Cloudflare R2 is more popular in Indonesia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Alibaba Cloud OSS is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka.

Alibaba Cloud OSS

Cloudflare R2

Type

Cloud storage service

About

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service is a fully managed object storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs.

Cloudflare R2 is a globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service designed to store large amounts of unstructured data without charging egress bandwidth fees.

It supports Standard and Infrequent Access storage classes, provides strong durability and security features with bucket tokens and CORS, and includes tools for migration and event notifications that integrate with serverless compute.

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

alibabacloud.com #2,130

cloudflare.com #20

Pricing

Free tier ✔️First 5 GB of standard storage and 100 GB traffic per month

Standard storage$0.017+/GB/month

Infrequent Access storage$0.00935+/GB/month

Archive storage$0.0045/GB/month

Cold archive storage$0.0020/GB/month

Outbound Traffic100 GB - 10 TB$0.1180/GB
10 TB - 50 TB$0.1070/GB
50 TB - 150TB$0.1020/GB
> 150 TB$0.0940/GB

Free tier ✔️10 GB of storage + 1M class A operations + 10 class B operations per month

StandardStorage$0.015/GB/month
Class A operations$4.50/million
Class B operations$0.36/million

Infrequent AccessStorage$0.01/GB/month
Class A operations$9/million
Class B operations$0.90/million
Data retrieval$0.01/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Cloudflare R2 service is 1.4 times more popular than Alibaba Cloud OSS.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Cloudflare R2 is more popular in Indonesia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, while Alibaba Cloud OSS is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka.

China

Indonesia

United States

Hong Kong

Sri Lanka

United Kingdom

Singapore

Germany

Cambodia

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in China in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sri Lanka in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.

🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Cloudflare R2 is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, blogs and wiki, and online shopping, while Alibaba Cloud OSS is more commonly used on business, software and hardware, and games sites.

Business

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

General News

Games