Alibaba Cloud ESA
- Free allowance
- The Entrance plan is a permanently free tier: USD 0 a month, renewed at no cost, with 100,000 edge function requests a day, 10 function routes, 10 Let's Encrypt edge certificates, 1 rate-limiting rule and access to 3,200+ points of presence.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate100,000 edge function requests a day per plan is the hard number, roughly 1.16 a second averaged; at 5 plans per account that is 500,000 a day, and the plan comparison table lists no accelerated-traffic allowance at all.
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | The Entrance plan is a permanently free tier: USD 0 a month, renewed at no cost, with 100,000 edge function requests a day, 10 function routes, 10 Let's Encrypt edge certificates, 1 rate-limiting rule and access to 3,200+ points of presence. Each account may hold up to 5 Entrance plans. No SLA and no ticket support. unit requests; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-allowance |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | email not published |
| Egress | Entrance: USD 0/month, accelerated data transfer included listed as None, overage rate listed as None; Pro (USD 15/month) includes 500 GB a month and bills overage at USD 0.03/GB, hourly; Premium (USD 249/month) includes 1,500 GB and bills USD 0.166/GB free allowance: Entrance: none listed ('None'); Pro: 500 GB a month; Premium: 1,500 GB a month price per tb: Entrance: no overage rate listed; Pro: USD 0.03/GB, USD 30 per TB |
| Interface | rest, cli OpenAPI (ESA/2024-09-10, RPC signature style) with SDKs in common languages; esa-cli for Functions and Pages; no SSH to a machine |
| Tooling | the provider documents its own CLI, esa-cli, per the Functions and Pages CLI page: "The ESA CLI (esa-cli) lets you manage the full lifecycle of Functions and Pages from your terminal" |
| Composes with | 100,000 edge function requests a day at a free tier with no SLA is a stage or a demo edge, and 5 plans per account gives five domains; it composes with an origin that sleeps, because the function can answer without waking the origin. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Two vendor statements conflict and both are recorded: the Entrance guide says traffic and requests within the plan are not charged, while the plan comparison table lists the free accelerated traffic allowance as None. The conservative reading is that only the 100,000 daily function requests is a published, unambiguous number, and the traffic term needs a live bill to settle. The page also warns that the feature set of Entrance may change over time. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | 'The Entrance plan ... is a permanently free tier'; 'Subscribe and renew at no cost, with no charges for traffic and requests generated within the plan'; each account can purchase up to 5 Entrance plans; no SLA, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | Entrance (USD 0/month): Edge Function Free Edition 100,000 requests/day, 10 function routes, 10 Let's Encrypt edge certificates, 1 rate limiting rule, basic edge computing; free accelerated traffic allowance listed as None, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | Entrance USD 0/month with free data transfer and free requests, accelerated data transfer listed as None, quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | Pro overage is USD 0.03/GB beyond its 500 GB monthly allowance |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | the overage rate table lists Entrance as None |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | the ESA OpenAPI has SDKs in several languages |
| 2026-11-03 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | a CLI exists for Functions and Pages |
| 2026-11-04 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | the Entrance plan charges nothing for traffic within the plan; the USD 0.03/GB rate is the Pro plan's overage |
| 2026-11-04 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | the Entrance row lists free data transfer and overage rate None |
| 2026-11-04 | www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/edge-security-acceleration/esa/ | part of the text of Tooling, above |
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Unknown values 3
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer