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Edge Security Acceleration:Select a suitable plan

Last Updated:Apr 23, 2025

Edge Security Acceleration (ESA) provides Entrance, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise plans to meet various business requirements. You can select a plan that suits your business based on the feature details in each plan.

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Entrance

Pro

Premium

Enterprise

Intended customers

Personal websites or cost-sensitive small enterprises

Small and medium-sized enterprises

Large and medium-sized enterprises

Large enterprises or customers who require customized solutions

Price

USD 0/month

USD 15/month

USD 249/month

Customizable

Service level agreement (SLA) commitment

×

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Free acceleration traffic quota in the plan (pay-as-you-go billing for excess usage)

None

500 GB

1500 GB

Customizable

Service location

Outside the Chinese Mainland

Outside the Chinese Mainland

Global (including the Chinese Mainland)

Global (including the Chinese Mainland)

Supported capabilities

  • Basic website management

  • Basic security

  • A few rules

  • Basic edge computing

The following capabilities in addition to all capabilities in Entrance plans:

  • More DNS records

  • More rules

  • Scheduled prefetch

  • WAF protection with managed rules, scan protection rules, and more

  • Cache analytics

The following capabilities in addition to all capabilities in Pro plans:

  • More DNS records

  • More rules

  • Rules that support regular expression operators

  • Strict slider CAPTCHA and origin protection

  • Waiting Room and version management

The following capabilities in addition to all capabilities in Premium plans:

  • Subdomain setup, site hold, custom nameservers, and fixed IP addresses

  • Cache reserve and caching on custom ports

  • Free wildcard-domain certificates and including the client IP address in the request header

  • Native edge security features and advanced security analytics

  • Edge Container and TCP/UDP proxy

  • Advanced ESA expert service

Feature comparison among plans

Website management

Comparison of website management features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Website management

NS setup

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CNAME setup

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Subdomain setup

×

×

×

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Wildcard domain names supported

1

2

3

Customizable

Websites allowed

1

1

1

Customizable

Site hold

×

×

×

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CNAME flattening

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3 acceleration scenarios

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Comparison of DNS configuration features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

DNS management

DNS records per website

100

125

200

200

7 types of DNS records

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Custom nameservers

×

×

×

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Wildcard domain names recorded

1

2

3

Customizable (up to 7)

Comparison of SSL features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

SSL/TLS

Free certificates

10

30

50

100

Free wildcard-domain certificates

×

×

×

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Custom certificates

5

10

20

50

Certificate availability testing

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Force redirect to HTTPS

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TLS cipher suites and encryptn protocolsion protocols

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OCSP stapling

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Opportunistic encryption

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HSTS

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Origin protocol and port

×

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Origin certificate verification

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Authenticated origin pulls

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Caching and rules

Comparison of caching features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Acceleration of static content delivery

Global distribution of static content

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Cache settings

Edge cache TTL

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Browser cache TTL

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Minimum edge/browser cache TTL

2 hours

1 second

1 second

1 second

Query strings

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Query string sorting

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Tiered caching

Edge Tiered Cache

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Edge Tiered Cache + Regional Tiered Cache

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Edge Tiered Cache + Smart Tiered Cache

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Edge Tiered Cache + Regional Tiered Cache + Smart Tiered Cache

×

×

×

Purchasable

Cache reserve

Cache reserve

×

×

×

Purchasable

Purge cache

Purge by URL

1,000

50,000

100,000

500,000

Purge all cache

5

80

125

200

Purge by directory

×

20

50

2,000

Purge by URL with parameters ignored

×

×

50

2,000

Purge by cache tag

×

×

×

2,000

Purge by hostname

×

×

×

2,000

Prefetch cache

Scheduled prefetch

×

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Prefetch cache

×

50,000

100,000

500,000

Comparison of features related to rules

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Rules engine

Conditions in a rule

3

5

10

20

Operators - Regular expressions

×

×

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Cache rules

Edge cache TTL

10

25

50

125

Browser cache TTL

HTTP status code TTL

Development mode (bypass cache)

Custom cache keys

Minimum edge/browser cache TTL

2 hours

1 second

1 second

1 second

Caching on custom ports

×

×

×

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Transform rules

Managed transforms - Adding the "ali-real-client-ip" header

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Managed transforms - Adding the visitor location header

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Rewrite URLs

10

25

50

125

HTTP request headers

HTTP response headers

Redirect rules

URL redirect rules

10

25

50

125

Compression rules

Gzip compression

1

2

5

10

Brotli compression

Origin rules

Rules

10

25

50

125

Origin port

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Origin host

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Origin protocol

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Origin SNI

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DNS records

×

×

×

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SSL/TLS rules

SSL/TLS rules

10

25

50

125

Security

Comparison of DDoS features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

DDoS

Basic DDoS protection

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Anti-DDoS instances

×

×

×

Purchasable

HTTP DDoS attack protection

×

×

×

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Deep learning and protection

×

×

×

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Global protection policies

×

×

×

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Comparison of WAF features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

WAF

Custom rules

3

10

50

100

Rate limiting rules

×

2

5

10

Rate limiting - Statistical duration

×

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 - Action duration

×

10 seconds

1 minute

1 hour

10 seconds

1 minute

2 minutes

5 minutes

1 hour

10 seconds

1 minute

2 minutes

5 minutes

1 hour

1 day

Rate limiting - Characteristics

×

Hostname

Client IP

Header

URI Query String

Cookie Value Of

Hostname

Client IP

Header

URI Query String

Cookie Value Of

URI

URI Path

ASN

Hostname

Client IP

Header

URI Query String

Cookie Value Of

URI

URI Path

ASN

URI Query String Parameter

HTTP Version

User Agent

X-Forwarded-For

MIME Type

Rate limiting - Applying to cache

×

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Whitelist rules

2

3

5

10

Managed rules

×

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Scan protection rules

×

5

10

20

Match fields (custom rules, rate limiting, scan protection, and bot management rules)

Client IP

Hostname

ASN

Country/Region

Referer

User Agent

URI

Client IP

Hostname

URI

URI Path

URI Query String

URI Query String Parameter

ASN

Country/Region

Referer

User Agent

Cookie

Cookie Value Of

Country/Region

Continent

Client IP

Hostname

Referer

Request method

SSL/HTTPS

URI

URI Path

URI Query String

URI Query String Parameter

HTTP Version

User Agent

X-Forwarded-For

MIME Type

Header

ASN

ASN

Cookie

Cookie Value Of

Country/Region

Continent

Client IP

Hostname

Referer

Request method

SSL/HTTPS

URI

URI Path

URI Path

URI Query String

URI Query String Parameter

HTTP Version

User Agent

X-Forwarded-For

MIME Type

Body

Body Arguments

Header

JavaScript validation

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Slider CAPTCHA

×

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Strict slider CAPTCHA

×

×

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Scenario-specific policies

Account-level quota. By default, the maximum number of rules is 10.

Custom error pages

Custom rule groups

Lists (such as a group of IP addresses and CIDR blocks)

DDoS alerts

×

×

×

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TCP/UDP proxy (with DDoS mitigation)

×

×

×

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Comparison of bot-related features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Bots

Basic bot management

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Advanced bot management

×

×

×

Purchasable

Advanced bot management (SDKs available)

×

×

×

Purchasable

Comparison of features related to intelligent protection

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Intelligent protection

Smart rate limiting

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Comparison of features related to origin protection

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Origin protection

Origin protection

×

×

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Data analytics and logs

Comparison of data analytics features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Data analytics

Cache analytics

×

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Filter conditions for traffic analytics

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, OS Type, X-Requested-With Header

Maximum query time range

31 days

62 days

92 days

185 days

Security analytics

Security analytics

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×

Security analytics Pro

×

×

×

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DDoS analytics

×

×

×

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Attack details

×

×

×

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Monitoring for edge computing

Edge Routine monitoring

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Edge KV monitoring

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Comparison of log features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Log collection

Real-time log delivery tasks

×

2 delivery tasks per log category

3 delivery tasks per log category

5 delivery tasks per log category

Real-time log delivery destinations

×

  • SLS

  • OSS

  • AWS S3

  • S3-compatible storage

  • Kafka

  • HTTP server

Categories of shippable real-time logs

×

  • By website:

    • Access logs

    • Firewall logs

    • TCP/UDP proxy logs

  • By account:

    • Edge Routine logs

Instant logs

×

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Standard logs

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Edge computing

Comparison of edge computing features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Edge computing

Edge Routine Free

100,000 requests/day

Edge Routine Paid

Pay-as-you-go

Customizable

Edge Routine routes

10

25

50

125

Edge Container

×

×

×

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Edge KV

Pay-as-you-go

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Other features

Comparison of other features

Category

Feature

Entrance

(USD 0/month)

Pro

(USD 15/month)

Premium

(USD 249/month)

Enterprise

(Customizable)

Network

IPV6

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websocket

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gRPC

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Including the client IP address in the request header

×

×

×

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Including the geographical location of the client IP address in the request header

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Protocol optimization

HTTP2

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HTTP3

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Content optimization

Image editing

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Gzip

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Brotli

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Traffic

Smart routing

Pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go

Customizable

Waiting rooms

×

×

1

1

Waiting Room Pro

×

×

×

Purchasable

China network optimization

×

×

×

Purchasable

Origin pools

5

10

15

20

Maximum number of origin servers in a pool

5

10

15

20

Load balancing

×

×

×

Purchasable

TCP/UDP proxy

TCP/UDP proxy

×

×

×

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Records for TCP/UDP proxied websites

×

×

×

10

TCP/UDP proxy analytics

×

×

×

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Version management

Version management

×

×

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Maximum number of environments

×

×

3

10

Maximum number of versions

×

×

10

20

Compliance

MLPS level 3

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PCI DSS

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ISO certification

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Services

Alibaba Cloud after-sales ticket support

×

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ESA expert service

×

×

×

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Others

Account permission management

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OpenAPI

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