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Alibaba Cloud vs Modal Labs comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Alibaba Cloud
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
9th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Modal Labs
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
18th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Alibaba Cloud is 5.5%, down from 10.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Modal Labs is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Alibaba Cloud5.5%
Modal Labs0.7%
Other93.8%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Min HtetOo - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Marketing Officer at Soft Intelligence
The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved
The product must be made easier to use. The design is a bit tricky. When we log in to the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace and browse products, they look very small. The user experience must be improved. Alibaba Cloud must increase its partner network and brand awareness in our country. It will give our customers more opportunities to scale and save in the long run.
reviewer2855421 - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
Low-friction compute has accelerated my prototyping and supports fast code evaluation runs
I don't have anything else to add about my main use case or how Modal Labs fits into my workflow. I don't want to add anything else about the features. I don't measure my outcomes with Modal Labs, but my experience has been pretty good for use cases where other providers, which usually involve renting out the full VM, is too much of a high-friction option. This being low-friction is valuable. I have no comments regarding Modal Labs's AI capabilities, specifically about its governance and security because I haven't used it in that context. Regarding Modal Labs's AI capabilities, I find its accuracy and reliability of output to be extremely reliable. I don't think there is anything to improve regarding accuracy because it is a provider. I use Modal Labs for experimentation on and off, and I do not properly deploy it. I did not purchase Modal Labs through the AWS Marketplace. I used the free tier. My advice to others looking into using Modal Labs is to try it, as they have thirty dollars of free credits every month. I give Modal Labs an overall rating of eight.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We use the solution to run VMs."
"Otherwise, the cost of Alibaba Cloud is reasonable, and service-wise, it's also good because it has many available services worth trying."
"Feature-wise, it provides many features, and ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."
"Alibaba also offers a lot of flexibility compared to Google Cloud, where you can only use Google's Tools."
"When comparing solutions such as GCP, which is the same as Alibaba Cloud, and others such as Amazon AWS and Azure, Alibaba Cloud is the preferred solution in China."
"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable; it's quite inexpensive and the solution is very secure."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"Modal Labs has positively impacted my organization and my work because I don't think there is any other provider that lets me attach it as functions, and I think it fits my workflow more naturally."
 

Cons

"The solution should have more integration."
"I would not recommend the solution to others."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"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 think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."
"If you want more accuracy, stability, and 24/7 customer support, primarily relying on the SDKs and APIs, you should think twice."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"The support offered by the tool is ridiculous."
"Modal Labs could be improved by not charging for the building of containers, as it turns out to be more expensive for certain use cases like mine where I have to try out many different containers."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the exact cost. It is cheaper than AWS."
"The price of Alibaba Cloud is good. If I was to use Microsoft Azure I would have to pay 30 percent more."
"I noticed on the pricing that it's quite expensive. It is the price you pay for making a practical choice for enterprise-level companies since it has so many features and it fits an enterprise-level company just like our company right now."
"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."
"The solution's pricing is the same as AWS'."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
University
18%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

Which solution do you prefer: Alibaba Cloud or Microsoft Azure?
Thanks for sharing these insights! I completely agree that Microsoft Azure provides IT administrators with strong centralized management, robust security controls through RBAC, and tools for cost o...
What needs improvement with Modal Labs?
Modal Labs could be improved by not charging for the building of containers, as it turns out to be more expensive for certain use cases like mine where I have to try out many different containers. ...
What is your primary use case for Modal Labs?
My main use case for Modal Labs is to accelerate my prototypes because I find it effective. A specific example of a prototype I accelerated using Modal Labs is when I wanted to run evaluations for ...
What advice do you have for others considering Modal Labs?
I don't have anything else to add about my main use case or how Modal Labs fits into my workflow. I don't want to add anything else about the features. I don't measure my outcomes with Modal Labs, ...
 

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