ESA plan selection - Edge Security Acceleration - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

ESA offers the Entrance, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise plans. Compare the plan details to select the plan that best suits your business needs.

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Compare plans

Item	Entrance	Pro	Premium	Enterprise
Ideal for	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	USD 0/month	USD 15/month	USD 249/month	Contact sales for custom pricing
Features	Free data transfer Free requests	SLA 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 Pro 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
SLA	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Free accelerated traffic allowance	None	500 GB Overage charges apply beyond the free allowance. You can set a usage cap.	1,500 GB Overage charges apply beyond the free allowance. You can set a usage cap.	Contact sales for custom pricing
Acceleration region	Regions outside the Chinese mainland	Global (including the Chinese mainland)	Global (including the Chinese mainland)	Global (including the Chinese mainland)
Capabilities	Basic site management Basic security protection Limited rule configuration Basic edge computing	Includes all features of the Entrance plan, plus: More site records Configure more rules Scheduled prefetch WAF protection with managed rules, a scanning protection slider challenge, and origin protection Cache analysis	Includes all features of the Pro 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 Premium 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 feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
site management	NS onboarding	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	CNAME onboarding	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Subdomain onboarding	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Number of wildcard domains	1	2	3	Contact sales for custom pricing
	Number of sites	1	1	1	Contact sales for custom pricing
	Site hold	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	CNAME flattening	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	3 acceleration scenarios	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

DNS configuration feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
DNS management	Number of records per site	100	200	500	500
	12 DNS record types	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	SaaS manager	100	100	100	Contact sales for custom pricing
	DNS analytics	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Performance acceleration and optimization

Content delivery and caching

Feature category	Feature	Entrance ($0/month)	Pro ($15/month)	Premium ($249/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales)
static resource acceleration	Global static content delivery	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
cache analysis	cache analysis	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
cache configuration	edge cache TTL	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	browser cache TTL	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	query string	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	query string sorting	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
tiered cache	edge cache layer	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge cache layer + regional cache layer	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge cache layer + smart cache layer	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	edge cache layer + regional cache layer + smart cache layer	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales
cache reserve	cache reserve	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales
cache purge	purge by URL	1,000 times	50,000 times	100,000 times	500,000 times
	purge by directory	50 times	100 times	1,000 times	2,000 times
	purge by hostname	Not supported	100 times	1,000 times	2,000 times
	purge by custom cache key	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2,000 times
	purge by URL with parameters ignored	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2,000 times
	purge by tag	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2,000 times
	purge all cache	5 times	80 times	125 times	200 times
cache prefetch	instant prefetch	Not supported	50,000 entries	100,000 entries	500,000 entries
cache prefetch	scheduled prefetch	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
cache configuration	development mode	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Network and content optimization

Feature category	Feature	Entrance ($0/month)	Pro ($15/month)	Premium ($249/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales)
speed monitoring	webpage monitoring	1 URL	3 URLs	5 URLs	10 URLs
speed monitoring	adaptive performance optimization	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
network optimization	IPv6	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	WebSocket	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	gRPC	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
protocol optimization	HTTP/2	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
protocol optimization	HTTP/3	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
content optimization	image processing	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
content optimization	resource compression	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Security

Feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (Custom pricing)
SSL/TLS	Edge certificate - Let's Encrypt free certificate	10 certificates	50 certificates	70 certificates	100 certificates
	Edge certificate - Digicert free certificate	Not supported	10 certificates	20 certificates	50 certificates
	Edge certificate - Custom certificate upload	5 certificates	10 certificates	20 certificates	50 certificates
	Certificate availability check	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge certificate - HTTPS enforcement	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge certificate - TLS cipher suite and protocol version configuration	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge certificate - OCSP Stapling	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge certificate - opportunistic encryption	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge certificate - HSTS	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Origin certificate - origin protocol and port	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Origin certificate - origin certificate validation	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Origin certificate - origin mutual authentication	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Smart protection features

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance (USD 0/month)

Pro (USD 15/month)

Premium (USD 249/month)

Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)

Smart protection

Enable smart rate limiting

Supported

One-click abuse prevention

Supported

WAF feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
WAF	custom rules	5	20	100	100
	rate limiting rules	1	2	5	10
	Rate limiting - Evaluation period	Not supported	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 - Block duration	Not supported	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 - Criteria	Not supported	hostname client IP header URI query string cookie value	hostname client IP header URI query string cookie value URI URI path ASN	hostname client IP header URI query string cookie value URI URI path ASN Query string parameter HTTP version user agent X-Forwarded-For MIME type
	Rate limiting - Includes cached requests	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	IP access rules	50	200	400	400
	whitelist rules	2	3	5	10
	managed rules	Supports basic rules	Supports all rules	Supports all rules	Supports all rules
	scanning protection rules	Not supported	5	10	20
	JavaScript challenge	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	slider CAPTCHA	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	strict CAPTCHA	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	scenario-specific policies	Account-wide quota with a default limit of 10 rules.
	custom pages
	custom rule groups
	IP CIDR blocks/groups
	DDoS alerting	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	layer 4 proxy (including layer 4 DDoS protection)	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported

DDoS feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (Custom Pricing)
DDoS	Basic DDoS protection	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Unlimited protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom pricing
	HTTP DDoS attack protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Deep learning and protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Scenario-based policies	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported

Bots feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
basic bot management	Definite Bots	Supported (Limited to observation and allow actions)	Supported (Limited to observation and allow actions)	Supported	Supported
	Likely Bots	Supported (Limited to observation and allow actions)	Supported (Limited to observation and allow actions)	Supported	Supported
	Verified Bots	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
	Static Resource Protection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	JavaScript Detection	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
advanced bot management	Maximum bot management rulesets	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10

Origin protection features

Feature category

Feature

Entrance (USD 0/month)

Pro (USD 15/month)

Premium (USD 249/month)

Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)

origin protection

Not supported

Supported

Feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for pricing)
API security	API security features	Not supported	Supports API management and architecture validation only.	Supports API management and architecture validation only.	Supports all features
	Managed APIs	Not supported	15	30	100
	Session identifiers	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10
	Architecture files	Not supported	1	1	5
	JWT tokens	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	5
	API rules	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10

Account security

Feature category

Feature

Entrance (USD 0/month)

Pro (USD 15/month)

Premium (USD 249/month)

Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)

Account security

Not supported

Supported

Edge computing

Feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (Contact Sales)
Edge Computing and AI	Edge Function Free Edition	100,000 requests/day
	Edge Function Pay-as-you-go Edition	Pay-as-you-go			Contact Sales
	Function routing	10	25	50	125
	Edge containers	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Edge storage	Pay-as-you-go			Supported

AI capabilities

AI features

Feature category

Feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)

AI Gateway (beta)

Supported

AI CAPTCHA

Supported

Rules

Feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Entrance ($0/month)	Pro ($15/month)	Premium ($249/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
General rule capabilities	Maximum nested sub-conditions	10	10	20	20
General rule capabilities	Operator - regular expression	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
HTTPS rules	SSL/TLS rules, HTTPS rules (shared quota)	10	25	50	125
Security rules		5	25	50	125
Transform rules	Rewrite URL, Modify outbound request headers, Modify outbound response headers	10	25	50	125
	Managed transform - real client IP header	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Managed transform - client geolocation header	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Redirection rules	URL redirection	10	25	50	125
Cache rules	Cache eligibility, Browser cache TTL, Edge cache TTL, Status code cache TTL, Custom cache key	10	25	50	125
	Custom port caching	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Response expired cache	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Cache reserve	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Network optimization rules		10(WebSocket configuration is not currently supported)	25	50	100
Content optimization rules	File compression, Image optimization, Video processing (shared quota)	10	25	50	100
Origin fetch rules	Rule limit	10	25	50	125
	Custom origin Host	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Origin protocol and port	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Origin SNI	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	DNS records	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Byte-range requests	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Origin HTTP request timeout	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Following origin redirects	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Observability and analytics

Log service features

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
Log collection	Offline logs	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Real-time log delivery tasks	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
	Real-time log types	For a single site: Access logs Mitigation logs Layer 4 proxy logs DNS logs For all sites under the account: Edge function logs Edge container logs
	Instant logs	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Data analytics features

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (Contact sales for custom pricing)
Data analytics	Network traffic analysis filters	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, X-Requested-With headers
Data analytics	Monitoring query time range	31 days	62 days	92 days	185 days
Security analytics	Security analytics	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Security Analytics Pro	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	DDoS analytics	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Attack details	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
Event analysis	Event analysis	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Compute monitoring	Edge function monitoring	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Compute monitoring	Edge storage monitoring	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Other features

Feature comparison

Feature category	Feature	Entrance (USD 0/month)	Pro (USD 15/month)	Premium (USD 249/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
Traffic	Smart routing	Pay-as-you-go	Pay-as-you-go	Pay-as-you-go	Contact sales for custom pricing
	Waiting room	Not supported	Not supported	1	1
	Waiting Room Pro Edition	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom pricing
	Chinese network optimization	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom pricing
	Origin pool	5	10	15	20
	Origin pool server limit	5	10	15	20
	Load balancing	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom pricing
Layer 4 proxy	Layer 4 proxy configuration	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Layer 4 proxy site records	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10
	Layer 4 proxy analysis	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
Version management	Version management switch	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
	Maximum environments for version management	Not supported	Not supported	3	10
	Maximum versions for version management	Not supported	Not supported	10	20
Compliance certifications	MLPS Level 3	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	PCI DSS	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	ISO certification	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Service	Alibaba Cloud support ticket	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Service	ESA expert service	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
Other	Account permission management	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Other	OpenAPI	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported