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Edge Security Acceleration:Select a suitable plan

Last Updated:May 08, 2025

Currently, ESA offers Entrance, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise subscription plans. You can choose the plan that best suits your business needs based on the package details.

Plan selection recommendations

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Entrance

Pro

Premium

Enterprise

Intended users

Personal websites or cost-sensitive small businesses

Small and medium-sized enterprises

Large and medium-sized enterprises

Large enterprises or customers who require customized solutions

Price

0 USD/month

15 USD/month

249 USD/month

Customized pricing

Service level agreement (SLA) commitment

×

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Free acceleration traffic included in the package (pay-as-you-go for excess usage)

None

500 GB

1500 GB

Customized

Acceleration region

Outside China

Outside China

Global (including the Chinese mainland)

Global (including the Chinese mainland)

Supported capabilities

  • Basic website management capabilities

  • Basic security

  • A few rules

  • Basic edge computing capabilities

Building on Entrance:

  • More DNS records

  • More rules

  • Scheduled prefetch

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

  • Cache analytics

Building on Pro:

  • More DNS records

  • More rules

  • Rules that support regular expression operators

  • Strict slider CAPTCHA, origin protection

  • Waiting Room and version management

Building on Premium:

  • 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

Detailed feature comparison

Website management

Website management feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Website management

NS integration

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CNAME integration

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Subdomain website integration

×

×

×

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Wildcard domain names supported

1

2

3

Customized

Websites allowed

1

1

1

Customized

Site hold

×

×

×

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CNAME flattening

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3 acceleration scenarios

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DNS configuration feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

DNS management

DNS records per website

100

125

200

200

Support for 12 types of DNS records

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Custom nameservers

×

×

×

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Wildcard domain names recorded

1

2

3

Customized (maximum 7)

DNS analytics

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Cache and rules

Cache feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Static content acceleration

Global distribution of static content

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Cache analytics

Cache analytics

×

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Cache configuration

Edge cache TTL

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Browser cache TTL

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Edge/Browser cache TTL

2 hours

1 second

1 second

1 second

Query string

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Query string sort

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Multi-level cache

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

×

×

×

Customized

Cache reserve

Cache reserve

×

×

×

Customized

Cache refresh

Refresh cache by URL

1,000

50,000

100,000

500,000

Refresh cache by directory

×

20

50

2,000

Refresh cache by hostname

×

×

×

2,000

Refresh cache by custom cache key

×

×

×

2,000

Refresh cache by removing parameters

×

×

×

2,000

Refresh cache by tag

×

×

×

2,000

Refresh all cache

5

80

125

200

Cache prefetch

Scheduled prefetch

×

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Prefetch cache

×

50,000

100,000

500,000

Rules feature comparison

Security protection

Intelligent protection feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Intelligent protection

Intelligent rate limiting

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DDoS feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

DDoS

Basic DDoS protection

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Unlimited protection

×

×

×

Customized

HTTP DDoS attack protection

×

×

×

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Deep learning and protection

×

×

×

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Scenario policy

×

×

×

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WAF feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

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 address

  • Header

  • URI query string

  • Cookie value

  • Hostname

  • Client IP address

  • Header

  • URI query string

  • Cookie value

  • URI

  • URI path

  • ASN

  • Hostname

  • Client IP address

  • Header

  • URI query string

  • Cookie value

  • 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

JS challenge

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Slider CAPTCHA

×

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Strict slider CAPTCHA

×

×

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Custom scenario policy

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

Custom pages

Custom rule groups

IP ranges / groups

DDoS alerts

×

×

×

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TCP/UDP proxy (with DDoS mitigation)

×

×

×

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Bots feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Bots

Basic bot management

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Advanced bot management

×

×

×

Customized

Advanced bot management (SDKs available)

×

×

×

Customized

Origin protection feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Origin protection

Origin protection

×

×

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Data analytics and log service

Data analytics feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Data analytics

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, Browser Type, OS Type, X-Requested-With headers

Monitoring query event 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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Event analysis

Event analysis

×

×

×

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Computing monitoring

Edge Routine monitoring

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Edge storage monitoring

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Log service feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Log collection

Offline logs

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Real-time log delivery tasks

×

2 delivery tasks per log category

3 delivery tasks per log category

5 delivery tasks per log category

Supported destinations for real-time logs

×

  • SLS

  • OSS

  • AWS S3

  • S3-compatible storage

  • Kafka

  • HTTP server

Log types supported for real-time log collection

×

  • By website:

    • Access logs

    • Firewall logs

    • TCP/UDP proxy logs

    • DNS logs

  • By account:

    • Edge Routine logs

    • Edge Container logs

Real-time logs

×

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Edge computing

Edge computing feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Edge computing

Edge Routine free edition

100,000 requests/day

Edge Routine paid edition

Pay-as-you-go

Customized

Edge Routine routes

10

25

50

125

Edge Container

×

×

×

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Edge storage

Pay-as-you-go

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Other features

Other feature comparison

Feature category

Detailed feature

Entrance

(0 USD/month)

Pro

(15 USD/month)

Premium

(249 USD/month)

Enterprise

(Customized)

Network optimization

IPv6

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WebSocket

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gRPC

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Protocol optimization

HTTP/2

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HTTP/3

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Content optimization

Image editing

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Resource compression settings

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Resource compression settings

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Stream

Smart routing

Pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go

Customized as needed

Waiting room

×

×

1

1

Waiting Room Pro

×

×

×

Customized on demand

China network optimization

×

×

×

Customized as needed

Source address pool

5

10

15

20

Source address pool server quantity limit

5

10

15

20

Server Load Balancer

×

×

×

Customized as needed

Layer 4 proxy

Configuration

×

×

×

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Records for Layer 4 proxy sites

×

×

×

10 records

Layer 4 proxy analysis

×

×

×

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Version management

Version management switch

×

×

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Maximum number of environments

×

×

3

10

Maximum number of versions

×

×

10

20

Compliance certifications

MLPS Level 3

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PCI DSS

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ISO certification

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Service

Alibaba Cloud after-sales ticket

×

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ESA expert service

×

×

×

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Others

Account permission management

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OpenAPI

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