Alibaba Cloud vs Google Cloud comparison

Alibaba and Google are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. Alibaba is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while Google is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.6. Alibaba holds a 5.4% mindshare in ISI, compared to Google’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Alibaba users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Google users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 18, 2026

Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud compete in the cloud services category. Google Cloud has the upper hand with its robust features and wider global presence, whereas Alibaba Cloud appeals to cost-sensitive markets, particularly in Asia.

Features: Alibaba Cloud offers affordability, flexibility, and a strong AI component, with features like ECS and a focus on security in Asia. Its local infrastructure facilitates competitive pricing. Google Cloud is known for its scalability, managed services, and seamless integration, offering a broad range of features and a strong security framework.

Room for Improvement: Alibaba Cloud needs to enhance user-friendliness, improve its support services, and address latency and connectivity issues outside China. Google Cloud could improve cost transparency, better integrate with non-Google ecosystems, and enhance analytics and support for right-to-left languages.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both platforms offer flexible deployment options. Alibaba Cloud's support is responsive, but Google Cloud is noted for its ease of deployment, although its support services need improvement in accessibility and knowledgeability.

Pricing and ROI: Alibaba Cloud offers cost-effective solutions, especially in China and nearby regions, with a pay-as-you-go model. Google Cloud, while pricier, is considered worth the investment given its extensive features and adaptability, enabling significant cost savings on infrastructure and offering immediate pricing benefits in certain markets.

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Categories and Ranking

Alibaba Cloud

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

11th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Cloud

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Alibaba Cloud is 5.4%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud is 4.0%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Google Cloud	4.0%
Alibaba Cloud	5.4%
Other	90.6%

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Salahuddin Shaikh

Site Reliability Engineer at EPAM Systems

Alibaba Cloud has evolved a lot in all specially in AI space, but still needs to improve the support offered to users.

The part where the product lacks is not because of the services it offers. The support offered by the tool is ridiculous. Whenever you raise the support ticket, someone from China comes over the phone. When I used to raise a ticket for support, some person from China came along with another English-speaking person to whom I had to explain my issues, after which the English-speaking individual used to translate it into Mandarin for the person from China. The Chinese person used to explain something in Mandarin to the English-speaking person, and it used to keep happening continuously, making it a hectic support service from Alibaba Cloud. The support was time-consuming, and it was also frustrating. As a technical person, if you are someone who is expecting something to be done as soon as possible and the support services offered to you turn out to be time-consuming and frustrating, then it won't be a great experience for the users.

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AnjaneyaVara Prasad

Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Cloud services have reduced on‑prem hardware costs and now support flexible microservices workloads

Regarding potential areas of improvement for Google Cloud, considering that they are providing 300 plus services, some services could be improved. For example, if I am facing some network troubleshooting issue in GKE in Google Cloud, I have to dig deeply and enable some special logs, such as flow logs. To enable that, it is chargeable. At least for basic services, they should give end-to-end support. In terms of end-to-end support, if I am purchasing one firewall from Google and using that firewall, all firewall-related services should be free. If I want to troubleshoot something deep and perform deep troubleshooting, you have to enable some additional logs. That is not that good. If I have to enable additional logs and want to store them into Google Cloud storage, which is similar to an S3 bucket, it is again chargeable. Those kinds of things should be given as part of the package. If you take firewall, all firewall-related logs, activities, and diagnostics everything should come as one package. If you want to do some deep analysis, you have to enable these logs, and for that you have to store them in the cloud storage, which is again chargeable. We should not have those kinds of things.Regarding additional costs, it can vary case by case. If I want to do deep analysis, I have to enable some logs, and for those logs, Google is charging. I am already paying for my virtual firewall from Google, and I am paying the cost for that. If I want to do some further troubleshooting and enable some low-level logs, they are charging for that. So these are the kinds of things I am talking about. To do very deep-level troubleshooting and enable additional logs, they will be charging. Not only Google, but all clouds are charging for this. Functionality-wise, Google Cloud is fine. In terms of virtual machine deployment or VM instance, the functionality is good.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is easy to set up."

"Feature-wise, it provides many features, and ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."

"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"

"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable; it's quite inexpensive and the solution is very secure."

"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."

"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."

"We use the solution to run VMs."

"The installation is easy."

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"The stability is good with Google Cloud."

"The most valuable features of Google Cloud for us are the integration with Kubernetes, IAM, Istio integration, and Terraform capabilities."

"Google Cloud is 100 percent stable."

"We're using this solution to host all of our applications."

"I have found almost everything valuable, as most cloud products are moving in this direction, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and security."

"The price of Google Cloud is affordable compared to others services."

"Cloud Run is pretty helpful."

"We worked with Google Cloud to ensure HIPAA compliance approval in health insurance companies."

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Cons

"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."

"A big area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is its support. Another area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is SDK-based service because sometimes, the SDKs don't work correctly. Support for API-based services also needs improvement in Alibaba Cloud because, at the moment, it's not that stable."

"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."

"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."

"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."

"I wouldn't recommend Alibaba. I think other companies should just use Azure instead, as it's a much simpler solution."

"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."

"It is not robust."

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"Sometimes the Google documents are difficult to learn from. Amazon has better support material."

"The Notes application could be better."

"In terms of Google services, providing more hypervisors would be beneficial."

"From my point of view, the security features could be improved."

"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."

"The UI is beautiful but not easy to use, and also a little slow. Anything that you click is slow to load. It is also not easy to find something. I do not find the left-hand side menu good. We have a lot of options mixed there and we need the best way to deploy cloud resources. I prefer Azure ARM templates since their JSON files are easy to manipulate and integrate with other tools."

"The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available."

"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Alibaba Cloud is good. If I was to use Microsoft Azure I would have to pay 30 percent more."

"Pricing for Alibaba Cloud is a little bit cheaper. It has reasonable pricing."

"I'm not sure about the exact pricing, but let's just say if it cost a dollar for Amazon AWS, it was closer to 70 to 80 cents for Alibaba Cloud."

"I don't know the exact cost. It is cheaper than AWS."

"Alibaba Cloud is cheaper."

"We cut our costs significantly by migrating our infrastructure to the cloud. Alibaba Cloud employs a pay-as-you-go model, so that minimizes many costs for us."

"The solution's pricing is the same as AWS'."

"The cost is better than similar solutions."

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"I don't pay for the license. For me, it's completely free."

"They provide user-based licensing plans. Its plan could be less expensive."

"It is not easy to calculate the price of the solution from the pricing table since they are not standard rates. However, I find the solution’s prices to be fair and reasonable."

"The cost might be $10 a month per user, which is about $300 a month in total."

"Google cloud is less expensive than other comparable solutions."

"It has a monthly subscription. The customers pay based on the usage."

"The licensing for Google Cloud seems to be quite cheap and they're actually quite reasonable in comparison to Azure, which, as it turns out, is quite expensive. Even though Azure has a data center in South Africa it's still quite costly. There's no scaling, so if you go with the VM, you pay 2500 Rand. When you add another VM, it's another 2500 Rand even though you don't use the whole thing. With Google, you can go up as incrementally as you need to, even if it's just 30 Rand."

"Google Cloud should be divided into modules so that users can buy which module will satisfy them. The overall price of Google Cloud should be reduced, Microsoft is a little bit cheaper. However, if Google divided the cloud offering it would be better. For example, if someone wants to use only for OneDrive they should be able to purchase the service separately, it would reduce the price. There is a license required to use this solution for enterprises. There is a free account, which the users can increase the size of the space. Google cloud is used in most Android Mobile device operating systems."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	37

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alibaba Cloud?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Alibaba Cloud?

Alibaba Cloud needs to improve emails. Its pricing can also be lower. Regarding security issues, Alibaba Cloud is more complex and better suited for developers and R&D teams. On the other hand,...

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What is your primary use case for Alibaba Cloud?

I was using Alibaba Cloud for the deployment of one of the products that my previous company was developing for a client in the KSA, where I had utilized servers, storage accounts, email services, ...

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What needs improvement with Google Cloud?

Better discounting and discount offers, especially for long-running servers, would be a very good option. A localized cloud in the MENA region would also be very important for us because we are ope...

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What is your primary use case for Google Cloud?

We are using Google Cloud Kubernetes service. We are using Cloud Build. We are using the PostgreSQL managed service. We are hosting our software platform on Google Cloud. We are using Kubernetes to...

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What advice do you have for others considering Google Cloud?

I'm not working with Honeycomb. Google Cloud is a cloud provider and it's still a strong option to choose. However, I would personally prefer AWS. My overall rating for Google Cloud is seven out of...

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Overview

Alibaba Cloud is a leading provider of cloud computing services, offering a range of solutions that include ECS, database service, and AI data analysis. Known for its cost-effectiveness, high security, flexibility, and strong infrastructure, it is particularly popular in Asia.

With a wide array of offerings, Alibaba Cloud facilitates businesses by providing essential services such as virtualization, storage, and effective communication between servers. It is recognized for its competitive pricing and comprehensive security features, ensuring data protection and compliance. Users appreciate its user-friendly nature and adaptability, allowing seamless integration within existing infrastructures. Despite these advantages, there are areas for improvement like SDKs, APIs for pricing, and enhancing customer service to reduce frustration caused by language barriers. The platform is perceived as less user-friendly compared to competitors such as Azure and Huawei, with concerns about design complexity, high latency, and pricing issues, especially for users outside China.

What are the key features of Alibaba Cloud?

Comprehensive Offerings: Provides services like ECS, databases, virtualization, and AI data analysis.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers competitive pricing compared to other cloud providers.
High Security: Maintains rigorous security standards and compliance.
User-Friendliness: Allows easy setup and integration for users.
Flexibility and Adaptability: Supports diverse business needs with scalable solutions.

What benefits do users report?

Cost Savings: Users find it affordable compared to other providers.
Strong Infrastructure: A solid foundation for cloud services.
Security and Compliance: Meets stringent data protection needs.
Ease of Use: Simplifies deployment and management for users.
Support and Resources: Provides robust support and resources for businesses.

In industries such as finance, e-commerce, and technology, Alibaba Cloud is utilized for application deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and managing ECS, load balancers, and databases. Companies leverage its cloud-based VMs, storage solutions, and AI/ML workloads to transition from physical servers, support digitization efforts in regions like Africa, and offer platforms for accessing cloud services. Business operations scale efficiently, enabling data analytics and application development without managing underlying infrastructure.

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Google Cloud offers a comprehensive platform renowned for cost-effectiveness, scalability, robust security, and seamless integration with tools such as Kubernetes, making it suitable for various business functions.

Google Cloud stands out for its ease of setup, stable infrastructure, and user-friendly interface. It provides essential features for AI, data analytics, and reliable storage, supporting multi-regional deployments for diverse applications. While maintaining minimal operational costs, it ensures simplified deployment and comprehensive application capabilities. However, improvements are needed in monitoring tools, customer support, documentation, and pricing options. Enhancements in stability, integration, and workload management are also required.

What are the essential features of Google Cloud?

Cost-effectiveness: Enables budget-friendly operations and reduced operational costs.
Easy Setup: Offers a straightforward and quick setup process.
Scalability: Supports growing business needs with vast resources and infrastructure.
Robust Security: Provides strong protection and compliance measures.
Seamless Integration: Effective integration with tools like Kubernetes and other applications.

What benefits and ROI can be observed?

Reduction in Operational Costs: Minimizes infrastructure and maintenance expenses.
Global Reach: Allows businesses to expand operations across multiple regions.
Flexibility: Adapts to different business models and rapid scaling needs.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Facilitates integration with existing tools and platforms.

Industries leverage Google Cloud for infrastructure management, analytics, application hosting, and development environments. Entities utilize its cloud network, machine learning support, disaster recovery solutions, and big data handling. Many rely on Workspace tools for communication and virtual machine applications for efficient IT infrastructure deployment.

Google

Sample Customers

Schneider Electric, BorderX Lab, Royal Philips, Catchpoint, Conversant, Blogmint

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