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- Free allowance
- USD 90 Free Credits (Valid for 3 Months) for Elastic Compute Service, a one-time free tier per user
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 14.48/month
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-ratefree trial is USD 90 of credit valid for 3 months, one-time for each user, open only to new users of ECS and Simple Application Server, with a credit or debit card required on the account; PayPal is not accepted
- Evidence
- reported10 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | USD 90 Free Credits (Valid for 3 Months) for Elastic Compute Service, a one-time free tier per user |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) free trial is USD 90 of credit valid for 3 months, one-time for each user, open only to new users of ECS and Simple Application Server, with a credit or debit card required on the account; PayPal is not accepted source
not stated |
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| Identity | card a credit card or debit card must be added as a payment method during the free tier period; PayPal is not supported for the free tier, and only one account per user is eligible |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | reported the USD 90 ECS credit, its 3-month validity and the card requirement are stated on the Free Trial page https://www.alibabacloud.com/free; the ECS pricing page states no allowance of its own |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 5.33 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 14.48 / month
- has-free-tier 1
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Evidence 10
More fields 11
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | flat-pool |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no session cap published on the pricing page"} |
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| price note | a VPS bills by the month with an hourly rate capped at the monthly figure, so the two columns answer two questions: destroying the box between runs versus keeping it up. |
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| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
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| m10h usd | 5.33 |
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| m24h usd | 14.48 |
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| price basis | 10 h/day column = 300 h at the hourly rate, which is what a server destroyed between runs costs; 24/7 column = the monthly cap, because a VPS kept up all month stops at the cap. |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 3600,"rounding_s": null} |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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| burst bill | min 2 min |
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Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field