ESA plan selection-Edge Security Acceleration(ESA)-阿里云帮助中心

ESA offers the Free, Basic, Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise plans. Compare the plan details to select the plan that best suits your business needs.

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Compare plans

Item	Free	Basic	Standard	Advanced	Enterprise
Ideal for	Individual developers and startups for testing	Personal websites or cost-sensitive small businesses	Small and medium-sized enterprises	Medium and large enterprises	Large enterprises or those that need custom solutions
Price	CNY 0/month	CNY 9.9/month	CNY 375/month	CNY 3,600/month	Contact sales for custom pricing
Features	Global acceleration Rate limiting Data monitoring and offline logs Option to upgrade to any plan	100% CDN functionality with extra value One-click abuse prevention Enables usage cap for predictable costs No charge for blocked traffic No charge for HTTPS and WAF requests	Accelerated API calls Malicious scan and vulnerability prevention Real-time logs No charge for blocked traffic No charge for HTTPS and WAF requests	Double the number of security rules compared to the Standard Edition plan Bot Management Waiting Room Version Management No charge for blocked traffic No charge for HTTPS and WAF requests	Layer 4 acceleration (for TCP/UDP) origin load balancing Deep learning and protection Bot management - Professional Mode Best-effort DDoS protection
Ticket support	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
SLA	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Free accelerated traffic allowance Overage charges apply beyond the free allowance. You can set a usage cap.	Unlimited For testing non-core business workloads. Not intended for high-traffic use.	50 GB	500 GB	3,000 GB	Contact sales for custom pricing
Acceleration region	Global
Capabilities	Basic site management Basic security protection Limited rule configuration Basic edge computing	Includes all features of the Free plan, plus: Unlimited plan purchases Configure more rules Custom WAF rules	Includes all features of the Basic plan, plus: More site records Configure more rules Scheduled prefetch WAF protection with managed rules and a scanning protection slider challenge Cache analysis	Includes all features of the Standard plan, plus: More site records Configure more rules Rules with regular expression operators Strict CAPTCHA Waiting Room and version management	Includes all features of the Advanced plan, plus: Advanced site management, including subdomain onboarding and site hold Cache persistence and caching on special ports Free wildcard certificates and client IP header Comprehensive native edge security and advanced security analytics Edge containers and Layer 4 proxy ESA premium expert support

Feature comparison

Basic site configuration

Site management features

Feature category	Detailed feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for pricing)
site management	NS onboarding	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	CNAME onboarding	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	subdomain onboarding	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Number of wildcard domains	1	1	2	3	Contact sales for pricing
	Number of sites	1	1	1	1	Contact sales for pricing
	dedicated site	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	CNAME flattening	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Support for 3 acceleration scenarios	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

DNS features

Feature category	Detailed feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for pricing)
DNS management	Number of records per site	100	150	300	500	500
	Support for 12 DNS record types	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	SaaS manager	100	100	100	100	Contact sales for pricing
	DNS analytics	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Performance acceleration

Content delivery and caching

Feature category	Feature item	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3,600/month)	Enterprise (Contact Sales)
Static resource acceleration	Global static content delivery	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Cache analysis	Cache analysis	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Cache configuration	Edge cache time-to-live (TTL)	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Browser cache TTL	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Query string	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Query string sorting	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Tiered cache	Edge cache layer	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge cache layer + regional cache layer	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge cache layer + Smart Cache Layer	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge cache layer + regional cache layer + Smart Cache Layer	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for on-demand customization
Cache Reserve	Cache Reserve	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom solutions
Cache purge	Purge by URL	1,000 purges	10,000 purges	50,000 purges	100,000 purges	500,000 purges
	Purge by directory	50 purges	100 purges	1,000 purges	1,000 purges	2,000 purges
	Purge by hostname	Not supported	100 purges	1,000 purges	1,000 purges	2,000 purges
	Purge by custom cache key	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2,000 purges
	Purge by URL with parameters ignored	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	50 purges	2,000 purges
	Purge by tag	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2,000 purges
	Purge All	5 purges	50 purges	80 purges	125 purges	200 purges
Cache prefetch	Instant Prefetch	Not supported	10,000 entries	50,000 entries	100,000 entries	500,000 entries
Cache prefetch	Scheduled Prefetch	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Cache configuration	Development mode	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Network and content optimization

Feature category	Feature item	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3,600/month)	Enterprise (Contact Sales)
Speed monitoring	Webpage monitoring	1 monitor	1 monitor	3 monitors	5 monitors	10 monitors
Speed monitoring	Adaptive performance optimization	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Network optimization	IPv6	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	WebSocket	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	gRPC	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Protocol optimization	HTTP/2	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Protocol optimization	HTTP/3	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Content optimization	Image processing	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Content optimization	Resource compression	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Security

SSL/TLS feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3,600/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
SSL/TLS	edge certificate - Let's Encrypt free certificate	5 certificates	10 certificates	30 certificates	50 certificates	100 certificates
	edge certificate - Digicert free certificate	Not supported	1 certificate	10 certificates	20 certificates	50 certificates
	edge certificate - custom certificate upload	2 certificates	5 certificates	10 certificates	20 certificates	50 certificates
	certificate availability check	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge certificate - HTTPS enforcement	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge certificate - TLS cipher suite and protocol version configuration	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge certificate - OCSP Stapling	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge certificate - opportunistic encryption	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge certificate - HSTS	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	origin certificate - origin protocol and port	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	origin certificate - origin certificate validation	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	origin certificate - origin mutual authentication	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Smart protection feature comparison

Category	Feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
smart protection	Enable smart rate limiting	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
smart protection	one-click abuse prevention	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

WAF feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3,600/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for pricing)
WAF	Custom rules	5	10	50	100	100
	Rate limiting rules	1	1	3	5	10
	Rate limiting: Counting periods	10 seconds	10 seconds 15 minutes	10 seconds 1 minute 15 minutes	10 seconds 1 minute 2 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes	5 seconds 10 seconds 1 minute 2 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes 1 hour
	Rate limiting: Action durations	10 seconds	10 seconds 1 hour	10 seconds 1 minute 10 minutes 1 hour	10 seconds 1 minute 2 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 1 hour	10 seconds 1 minute 2 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 1 hour 1 day
	Rate limiting: Characteristics	client IP	hostname client IP	hostname client IP header URI query string cookie value	hostname client IP header URI query string cookie value URI URI path ASN number	hostname client IP header URI query string cookie value URI URI path ASN number Specific URI query parameter HTTP version User Agent X-Forwarded-For MIME type
	Rate limiting on cached requests	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	IP access rules	50	200	300	400	400
	Allowlist rules	1	2	3	5	10
	Managed rules	Supports basic rules	Supports basic rules	Supports all rules	Supports all rules	Supports all rules
	Scanning protection rules	Not supported	Not supported	5	10	20
	JavaScript challenge	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Slider CAPTCHA	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Strict CAPTCHA	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Scenario-specific policies	An account-level quota applies, with a default limit of 10 rules.
	Custom pages
	Custom rule groups
	IP CIDR blocks/groups
	DDoS alerting	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Layer 4 proxy (including Layer 4 DDoS protection)	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported

DDoS feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
DDoS	basic DDoS protection	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	unlimited protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for customization
	HTTP DDoS attack protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	deep learning and protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	scenario-based policies	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported

Bots feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
basic bot management	Definite Bots	Supported (actions limited to observation and allow)	Supported (actions limited to observation and allow)	Supported (actions limited to observation and allow)	Supported	Supported
	Likely Bots	Supported (actions limited to observation and allow)	Supported (actions limited to observation and allow)	Supported (actions limited to observation and allow)	Supported	Supported
	Verified Bots	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
	Static Resource Protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	JavaScript Detection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
Advanced Bot Management	Number of bot management rulesets	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10

Feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Free (CNY 0/month)

Basic (CNY 9.9/month)

Standard (CNY 375/month)

Advanced (CNY 3600/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

Origin protection

Not supported

Supported

API protection feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
API security	Supported features	Not supported	API management and architecture validation only	API management and architecture validation only	API management and architecture validation only	Supports all features
	Managed APIs	Not supported	10	20	30	100
	Session identifiers	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10
	Architecture files	Not supported	1	1	1	5
	JWT tokens	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	5
	API rules	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10

Account security feature comparison

Feature category	Feature details	Free edition (CNY 0/month)	Basic edition (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard edition (CNY 375/month)	Advanced edition (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise edition (contact sales for custom pricing)
Account security		Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported

Edge computing

Feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3,600/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales)
Edge computing and AI	Edge function (Free)	100,000 requests/day
	Edge function (Pay-as-you-go)	pay-as-you-go				Contact sales for custom pricing
	function routing	5 routes	10 routes	25 routes	50 routes	125 routes
	edge containers	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	edge storage	pay-as-you-go				Supported

AI capabilities

AI feature comparison

Feature category	Features	Free edition (CNY 0/month)	Basic edition (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard edition (CNY 375/month)	Advanced edition (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise edition (Contact sales for custom pricing)
AI Gateway (beta)		Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
AI CAPTCHA		Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Rules

Feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Free	Basic	Standard	Advanced	Enterprise
General rule capabilities	Maximum nested sub-conditions per rule	10	10	15	20	20
General rule capabilities	Regular expression operator	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
HTTPS rule	SSL/TLS rule, HTTPS rule (shared quota)	5	10	50	75	125
Security rule		5	10	25	50	125
Transform rule	URL rewrite, modify outbound request header, modify outbound response header (shared quota)	5	10	50	75	125
	managed transform - real client IP header	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	managed transform - client geolocation header	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Redirection rule		5	10	50	75	125
Cache rule	cache eligibility, browser cache TTL, edge cache TTL, status code cache TTL, custom cache key (shared quota)	5	10	50	75	125
	custom port caching	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	expired cache response	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	cache reserve	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Network optimization rule		5(WebSocket configuration is not currently supported)	10	50	75	100
Content optimization rule	file compression, image optimization, video processing (shared quota)	5	10	50	75	100
Origin fetch rule	Maximum rules	5	10	50	75	125
	custom origin host	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	origin protocol and port	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	origin SNI	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	DNS record	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	byte-range caching	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	origin HTTP request timeout	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	origin redirect following	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Observability and data analytics

Log service feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
log collection	standard logs	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Number of real-time log delivery tasks	1 task/log type	1 task/log type	2 tasks/log type	3 tasks/log type	5 tasks/log type
	Real-time log delivery destinations	SLS OSS AWS S3 S3 compatible Kafka HTTP server
	Log types for real-time log collection	For a single site: Access logs Mitigation logs Layer 4 proxy logs For all sites in your account: Edge function logs
	instant logs	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Data analytics feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
data analytics	network traffic analysis filter conditions	Country/Region, Host, path, query string, User-Agent, Referer, client IP, client ASN, HTTP version, HTTP method, cache status, device type, edge status code, origin status code, Content-Type, browser type, operating system type, and X-Requested-With
data analytics	Monitoring query time range	10 days	31 days	62 days	92 days	185 days
security analytics	security analytics	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	security analytics Pro	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	DDoS analytics	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	attack details	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
event analysis		Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
compute monitoring	edge function monitoring	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
compute monitoring	edge storage monitoring	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Other features

Detailed feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Free (CNY 0/month)	Basic (CNY 9.9/month)	Standard (CNY 375/month)	Advanced (CNY 3600/month)	Enterprise
Traffic	Smart routing	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Waiting Room	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	1	1
	Waiting Room Pro	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact Sales for custom pricing
	Chinese network optimization	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact Sales for custom pricing
	Origin pool	2	5	10	15	20
	Server limit per origin pool	2	5	10	15	20
	Load balancing	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact Sales for custom pricing
Layer 4 proxy	Configuration	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Site record limit	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10
	Layer 4 proxy analysis	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
Version management	Version management switch	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
	Environment limit	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	3	10
	Version limit	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10	20
Compliance certification	MLPS Level 3	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	PCI DSS	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	ISO certification	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Service	Alibaba Cloud support tickets	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Service	ESA expert service	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
Other	Account permissions	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Other	OpenAPI	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported