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Your traffic

Choose a workload. We’ll estimate traffic and requests for you.

Estimated monthly costs

USD per month, before tax. Load balancing and unpriced extras are excluded.

What’s included?

Estimates cover cacheable content. Origin and optional services are added only when you enter their rates. Plans differ in features and coverage; check their terms before buying.

Advanced settings
Split traffic between regions

Percentages must total 100%. The same split applies to bytes and requests. CloudFront charges by serving edge location; this is an approximation. Shared free allowances are allocated proportionally.

Origin and optional services

Paid tiers start with this workload; estimates do not include other account traffic. Enter your own effective rates after origin allowances. Reads use request misses; egress uses byte fill. Functions assume one invocation per viewer request. Zero leaves an extra out of the estimate; it does not mean your origin is free.

Compare a quote you received

This is your quote, not a published provider price. Use an effective rate for the selected traffic mix; tiers, included usage and commitments need to be reflected in your inputs. Sharing a scenario includes your quote details.

Presets are starting assumptions, not measured traffic. Video assumes one rendition and segment GETs; playlists, retries and extra audio tracks add requests. Fill is a byte ratio, not a request cache-hit rate. GB = 1 billion bytes; Google bills GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes; CloudFront estimates use binary GB as a billing assumption.

Overview

Alibaba Cloud CDN accelerates websites, downloads and media delivery. It integrates with services such as Object Storage Service (OSS).

Its programmable CDN configuration is distinct from related ESA, Edge Node Service and ApsaraVideo products; compare the exact product you intend to deploy.

DCDN stopped accepting new customer activations on March 12, 2026. Check ESA for a new dynamic-acceleration deployment. This restriction concerns the separate DCDN product; it does not announce retirement of Alibaba Cloud CDN.

Network

  • The documented footprint is 3,200+ CDN PoPs, including 2,300+ in mainland China and 900+ outside. The published aggregate capacity is 180 Tbps.
  • The node-distribution table names selected cities and broader countries or provinces. These are not equivalent to individual facility locations.
  • Billing regions and routing determine which footprint applies to your audience; test the actual user networks.
Selected named CDN cities

Published named cities outside mainland China, shown at approximate city centers. Country-only entries and individual facilities are not plotted. This is a subset of the network.

Los AngelesMiamiNew YorkSeattleSan JoseDenverDallasChicagoTokyoOsakaSingaporeBangkokManilaKuala LumpurJakartaSurabayaSeoulSydneyMelbourneDohaJohannesburgSão PauloRio de Janeiro
Cities

Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Seattle, San Jose, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Surabaya, Seoul, Sydney, Melbourne, Doha, Johannesburg, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro

Listed without a marker: Ashburn, Santa Clara, Batam.

Features

FeatureSupported
Web application firewall◐ Partial
Bot protectionNot listed
DDoS protection◐ Partial
Rate limitingNot listed
HTTP/3 (QUIC)✓ Supported
TLS 1.3✓ Supported
Tiered cachingNot listed
Origin shieldNot listed
Instant cache purgeNot listed
Serve stale while refreshingNot listed
Serve stale on origin errorsNot listed
Image optimization✓ Supported
On-demand video✓ Supported
Live videoNot listed
Digital rights managementNot listed
HLS / DASH packagingNot listed
WebSocketsNot listed
Signed URLs✓ Supported
Edge compute◐ Partial
Edge functionsNot listed
Key-value storageNot listed
Configuration API✓ Supported
Real-time logs✓ Supported
Log export✓ Supported
Terraform provider✓ Supported

✓ Supported · Partial: limited or separate-product support · ✗ Not supported · Not listed: unconfirmed. Some features need a separate product or plan.

  • Delivery: HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, signed URLs, cache rules, image editing and byte-range video access.
  • Configuration: EdgeScript changes CDN request workflows; ESA functions and general compute services are separate products.
  • Security: CDN can integrate with Anti-DDoS. Existing CDN WAF deployments have a different lifecycle from new ESA protection; CDN WAF no longer accepts new activation.
  • Monitoring: real-time metrics and offline or real-time logs. Log delivery and some secure-request protocols have separate fees.

The CDN delivers prepared media. Ask separately how live ingest, packaging and DRM will be supplied.

Pricing

  • Choose pay-as-you-go or prepaid resource plans; excess resource-plan usage falls back to PAYG.
  • Basic delivery uses either data transfer or peak bandwidth. Region and billing cycle affect the estimate.
  • Static HTTPS/QUIC requests and real-time logs have separate optional fees. Origin traffic is not charged by CDN, but the origin may charge outbound transfer.
  • CDN and DCDN are billed separately.

Developer tools

  • OpenAPI and SDKs support domain configuration, cache refresh and reporting.
  • Terraform supports infrastructure-as-code management.
  • EdgeScript customizes supported CDN workflows; it is distinct from a general serverless runtime.

When it fits

  • Websites, software downloads and prepared media using Alibaba Cloud or external origins.
  • Teams using OSS and CDN APIs or Terraform for delivery automation.
  • Mainland-China delivery where the domain and deployment meet the applicable onboarding requirements.

Before you choose

  • Your application needs a capability available only in a different Alibaba Cloud product.
  • Your deployment assumes global and mainland-China delivery have identical requirements or prices.
  • Regional performance has not been tested from your audience networks.
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