Alibaba Cloud CDN vs. Cloudimage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alibaba Cloud CDN
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Alibaba Cloud CDN delivers content to users from the nodes that are nearest them, accelerating the response to user requests and increasing the response rate. CDN also resolves the delivery latency problem that is usually caused by distribution, bandwidth, and server performance issues. CDN has been applied in multiple scenarios, including site acceleration, on-demand streaming, and live streaming.N/A
Cloudimage
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Cloudimage offers a way to optimize and accelerate images for the web. Cloudimage automates the transformation and optimization of images on the fly and accelerates their distribution via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Cloudimage helps web pages to become faster and lighter, to improve both SEO and the user experience of the web or mobile application. Built by Scaleflex, the Cloudimage plugin helps users to: Optimize images on the fly; image URLs will be…
$59
per month
Pricing
Alibaba Cloud CDNCloudimage
Editions & Modules
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Essential
$59
per month
Grow
$119
per month
Scale
$329
per month
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alibaba Cloud CDNCloudimage
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEssential: 100 GB of CDN traffic, 25 GB of cloud storage, 10K Visual operations credits, 99.90% SLA, 1 Custom CNAME with SSL certificate Grow: 250 GB of CDN traffic, 100 GB of cloud storage, 50K Visual operations credits, 99.90% SLA, 2 Custom CNAMEs with SSL certificate Scale: 1000 GB of CDN traffic, 250 GB of cloud storage, 100K Visual operations credits, 99.95% SLA, 4 Custom CNAMEs with SSL certificate Enterprise: Custom volumes for CDN traffic, CloudStorage and Visual operations (credits system), Tailored support, Dedicated Account Manager, Multi-CDN, SAML SSO
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Community Pulse
Alibaba Cloud CDNCloudimage
Considered Both Products
Alibaba Cloud CDN
Chose Alibaba Cloud CDN
Alibaba Cloud CDN is very cost-efficient and faster in some cases than the competitors. It also provides the latest documentation, so you don't have to go through hundred of pages of decade-old documentation like some of the competitors. Along with that they provides state of …
Cloudimage
Chose Cloudimage
We chose Cloudimage for the value for money, and the ability to link with our own hosting.
Chose Cloudimage
We don't like the new pricing scheme for imgix at all. We could have gone from 100 USD / month to 500 USD / month because they price based on source image (we had 50, 000). With Cloudimage, the pricing is based on source image cache (gigabytes) and CDN bandwidth (gigabytes).
Chose Cloudimage
So apparently I can't select the options. I have tried, but the only other one we seriously looked at was Piio. A couple of others we evaluated (for such a brief time) were similar to Piio, and didn't really cover what we needed. Piio (and others) don't tick all the boxes we …
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User Ratings
Alibaba Cloud CDNCloudimage
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.4
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Alibaba Cloud CDNCloudimage
Likelihood to Recommend
Alibaba Cloud CDN is well suited for the below scenarios -
  • if you want to get started quickly and don't want to go through a lot of settings ups then go for it.
  • The documentation is really good.
  • The speed and delivery network and billing price ratio is quite good and in some cases better than competitors.
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Use it if you have a ton of source images and need many transformations. Don't use it if you only want to serve a few image[s] to a very very large number of users (CDN bandwidth costs)
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Pros
  • It provides a great documentation to get started with, which makes the life of Devs easy
  • The UI and the metrics graphs are beautify crafted, so all the insights can be easily seen when logged into the system
  • The product is really really fast, it makes your app fly. It gives the extra boost that you need in scaling up.
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  • Image manipulation
  • Connecting to self hosted servers
  • Delivers images to the browser
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Cons
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN doesn't have the automatic SSL attachment to web apps, which can be great if provided.
  • A economical and startup friendly billing plan can be added.
  • CDN locations needs to be increased.
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  • Having tiers based either more on source cache / CDN bandwidth (for some persons)
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Support Rating
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We have a single contact point, but CI has been immaculate with their support offering. Instantaneous and comprehensive.
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Alternatives Considered
Alibaba Cloud CDN is very cost-efficient and faster in some cases than the competitors. It also provides the latest documentation, so you don't have to go through hundred of pages of decade-old documentation like some of the competitors. Along with that they provides state of the art analytics and insights platform which makes the decision making process smooth.
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We chose Cloudimage for the value for money, and the ability to link with our own hosting.
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Return on Investment
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN has boosted our web performance by 300X which ensured more user to come to our platform
  • Addition of their CDN also guaranteed Zero downtime in our app.
  • Their faster issue resolving and great support engineers are always helping us whenever there's a issue.
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  • Primary been a time saver!
  • Saves us rolling our own solution.
  • Increases conversion of the end user on average.
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