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

ESA offers ESA plans tailored to your region: Entrance, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise. Review the plan details to select the one that best fits your business needs.

You can use the simple plan selection guide below to choose the right plan for you.

Plan selection recommendations

Reference item	Entrance	Pro	Premium	Enterprise
Target users	Personal websites or cost-sensitive small businesses	Small and medium-sized enterprises	Medium and large enterprises	Large enterprises or those requiring custom solutions
Plan price	0 USD/month	15 USD/month	249 USD/month	Contact Sales for customized solutions
Plan features	Free data transfer Free requests	Committed SLA Accelerated API calls Malicious scan and vulnerability prevention Real-time logs Blocked traffic is not billed HTTPS and WAF requests are not billed	Double the security rules of Pro plan Bot management Waiting Room Version Management Blocked traffic is not billed HTTPS and WAF requests are not billed	Layer 4 acceleration (for TCP/UDP) Origin load balancing Deep learning and protection Bot management - Professional Mode Best-effort DDoS protection
Committed SLA	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Free accelerated traffic included in plan	None	500 GB Overage charges apply beyond free quota. You can set a usage cap	1500 GB Overage charges apply beyond free quota. You can set a usage cap	Contact Sales for a custom solution.
Acceleration region	Outside Chinese mainland	Global (including Chinese mainland)	Global (including Chinese mainland)	Global (including Chinese mainland)
Supported capabilities	Supports basic site management Supports basic security protection Supports configuring a limited number of rules Supports basic edge computing	Built on Entrance: Supports more site records Supports configuring more rules Supports scheduled prefetch Supports managed rules, scanning protection slider challenge, origin protection, and other WAF protections Supports cache analysis	Built on Pro: Supports more site records Supports configuring more rules Supports rules with regular expression operators Supports strict CAPTCHA Supports Waiting Room and version management	Built on Premium: Supports subdomain onboarding and site hold Supports cache reserve and special port caching Supports wildcard domain free certificates and client IP header Supports full native edge security protection and advanced security analytics Supports edge containers and Layer 4 proxy Supports ESA premium expert services

Feature comparison details

Site basics

Site management feature comparison

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

DNS configuration feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
DNS management	Number of records per site	100	200	500 items	500
	Supports 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 comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
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 for custom pricing
Cache reserve	Cache reserve	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom pricing
Cache purge	Purge by URL	1000 times	50,000 times	100,000 times	500,000 times
	Purge by directory	50 times	100 times	1,000 times	2000 times
	Purge by hostname	Not supported	100 times	1,000 times	2,000 times
	Purge by custom Cachekey	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2,000 times
	Purge by URL with parameters ignored	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2000 times
	Purge by tag	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	2000 times
	Purge all cache	5 times	80 times	125 times	200 times
Cache prefetch	Instant prefetch	Not supported	50,000 entries	100,000 entries	500000
Cache prefetch	Scheduled prefetch	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Cache configuration	Development mode	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Network and content optimization feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
Speed monitoring	Webpage monitoring	1	3 items	5	10
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 editing	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Content optimization	Set resource compression	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Security protection

SSL/TLS feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
SSL/TLS	Edge certificate - Let's Encrypt free certificate	10	50 sheets	70 sheets	100 images
	Edge certificate - Digicert free certificate	Not supported	10	20 items	50 images
	Edge certificate - Upload custom certificate	5	10	20	50 images
	Certificate availability check	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Edge certificate - Enforce HTTPS	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 feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)

Smart protection

Enable smart rate limiting

Supported

One-click abuse prevention

Supported

WAF feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
WAF	Custom rules	5	20 items	100	100
	Rate limiting rules	1 item	Two items	5 entries	10
	Rate limiting - Statistical duration enumeration	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 - Duration enumeration	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 - Features	Not supported	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 URI specified query string HTTP version User Agent X-Forwarded-For MIME type
	Rate limiting - Apply to cached requests	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	IP access rules	50 items	200	400 items	400
	Whitelist rules	2	3	5 entries	10 items
	Managed rules	Supports Basic Policies	Supports all rules	Supports all rules	Supports all rules
	Scanning protection rules	Not supported	5	10 items	20
	JavaScript Challenge	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Slider CAPTCHA	Not supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Strict CAPTCHA	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
	Scenario-specific policies	Account-level quota. Default rule limit is 10.
	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 (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for 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 policies	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported

Bots feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
Basic bot management	Definite Bots	Supported (action only supports observation, allow)	Supported (action only supports observation, allow)	Supported	Supported
	Likely Bots	Supported (action only supports observation, allow)	Supported (action only supports observation, allow)	Supported	Supported
	Verified Bots	Not supported	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	Number of bot management rulesets supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10

Origin protection feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance (0 USD/month)

Pro (15 USD/month)

Premium (249 USD/month)

Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)

Origin Protection

Origin protection

Not supported

Supported

API protection feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
API security	API security features	Not supported	Only supports API management and architecture validation features	Only supports API management and architecture validation features	Supports all features
	Number of APIs managed	Not supported	15	30	100
	Number of session identifiers	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10
	Number of architecture files	Not supported	1	1	5
	Number of JWT tokens	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	5
	Number of API rules	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	10 entries

Edge computing

Edge computing feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
Edge computing	Edge function Free Edition	100,000 requests/day
	Edge function Pay-as-you-go Edition	Pay-as-you-go			Contact sales for custom pricing
	Function routing	10 items	25 items	50	125
	Edge containers	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
	Edge storage	Pay-as-you-go			Supported

Rules

Rules feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
Quick start	Number of nested sub-conditions in rules	10	10	20	20
Quick start	Operator - Regular expression	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	Supported
HTTPS rules	SSL/TLS rules, HTTPS rules (shared quota)	10	25 items	50 items	125
Security rules		5	25 items	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 items	25 items	50	125 items
Cache rules	Cache eligibility, Browser cache TTL, Edge cache TTL, Status code cache TTL, Custom cache key	10 items	25 items	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	25	50	100
Content optimization rules	File compression, Image optimization, Video processing (shared quota)	10	25	50	100
Origin fetch rules	Number of rules	10	25 items	50	125 items
	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 segment	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Origin HTTP request timeout	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Configure 301/302 redirect following for origin fetch	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

Observability and analytics

Log Service feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (contact sales for custom pricing)
Log collection	Standard logs	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Number of 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 supported	SLS OSS AWS S3 S3 compatible Kafka HTTP server
	Real-time log collection log types supported	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 feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/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, Type of the browser, 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 Edition	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

Other features comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/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 solutions
	Chinese network optimization	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom pricing
	Origin Pool	5	10	15	20
	Origin pool server quantity limit	5	10	15	20
	Load balancing	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Contact sales for custom pricing
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 number of version management environments	Not supported	Not supported	3	10
	Maximum versions for version management	Not supported	Not supported	10	20
Compliance Certifications	Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) Level 3	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (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