How to select the right ESA plan - Edge Security Acceleration

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

Reference item	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	×
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
	CNAME integration
	Subdomain website integration	×	×	×
	Wildcard domain names supported	1	2	3	Customized
	Websites allowed	1	1	1	Customized
	Site hold	×	×	×
	CNAME flattening
	3 acceleration scenarios

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
	Custom nameservers	×	×	×
	Wildcard domain names recorded	1	2	3	Customized (maximum 7)
	DNS analytics

SSL/TLS feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (Customized)
SSL/TLS	Edge certificate - Free certificate	10	30	50	100
	Edge certificate - Free wildcard-domain certificate	×	×	×
	Edge certificate - Upload custom certificate	5	10	20	50
	Certificate availability testing
	Edge certificate - Force HTTPS
	Edge certificate - TLS cipher suite and protocol version configuration
	Edge certificate - OCSP Stapling
	Edge certificate - Random encryption
	Edge certificate - HSTS
	Origin certificate - Origin protocol policy	×
	Origin certificate - Origin certificate validation
	Origin certificate - Mutual TLS authentication

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
Cache analytics	Cache analytics	×
Cache configuration	Edge cache TTL
	Browser cache TTL
	Edge/Browser cache TTL	2 hours	1 second	1 second	1 second
	Query string
	Query string sort
Multi-level cache	Edge Tiered Cache
	Edge Tiered Cache + Regional Tiered Cache
	Edge Tiered Cache + Smart Tiered Cache
	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	×
Cache prefetch	Prefetch cache	×	50,000	100,000	500,000

Rules feature comparison

Feature category	Detailed feature	Entrance (0 USD/month)	Pro (15 USD/month)	Premium (249 USD/month)	Enterprise (Customized)
Quick start	Conditions in a rule	3	5	10	20
Quick start	Operators - Regular expressions	×	×
HTTPS rules	SSL/TLS rules, HTTPS rules (shared quota)	10	25	50	125
Security rules		10	25	50	125
Transform rules	Rewrite URL	10	25	50	125
	Modify HTTP request header
	Modify HTTP response header
	Managed transform - True client IP header
	Managed transform - Client geo-location header
Redirect rules	URL redirect rules	10	25	50	125
Cache rules	Cache eligibility	10	25	50	125
	Browser cache TTL
	Edge cache TTL
	Status code cache TTL
	Custom cache key
	Custom port caching	×	×	×
	Serve stale content
	Cache reserve
	Edge/Browser cache TTL	2 hours	1 second	1 second	1 second
Network optimization rules		10	25	50	100
Content optimization rules	File compression, Image optimization (shared quota)	10	25	50	100
Origin rules	Rules	10	25	50	125
	Origin HOST
	Origin protocol policy	×
	Origin SNI
	DNS records	×	×	×
	Range sharding
	Origin HTTP request timeout

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

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
	Unlimited protection	×	×	×	Customized
	HTTP DDoS attack protection	×	×	×
	Deep learning and protection	×	×	×
	Scenario policy	×	×	×

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	×
	Whitelist rules	2	3	5	10
	Managed rules	×
	Scan protection rules	×	5	10	20
	JS challenge
	Slider CAPTCHA	×
	Strict slider CAPTCHA	×	×
	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	×	×	×
	TCP/UDP proxy (with DDoS mitigation)	×	×	×

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
	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

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
Data analytics	Monitoring query event range	31 days	62 days	92 days	185 days
Security analytics	Security analytics				×
	Security analytics Pro	×	×	×
	DDoS analytics	×	×	×
	Attack details	×	×	×
Event analysis	Event analysis	×	×	×
Computing monitoring	Edge Routine monitoring
Computing monitoring	Edge storage monitoring

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
	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	×

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	×	×	×
	Edge storage	Pay-as-you-go

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
	WebSocket
	gRPC
Protocol optimization	HTTP/2
Protocol optimization	HTTP/3
Content optimization	Image editing
	Resource compression settings
	Resource compression settings
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	×	×	×
	Records for Layer 4 proxy sites	×	×	×	10 records
	Layer 4 proxy analysis	×	×	×
Version management	Version management switch	×	×
	Maximum number of environments	×	×	3	10
	Maximum number of versions	×	×	10	20
Compliance certifications	MLPS Level 3
	PCI DSS
	ISO certification
Service	Alibaba Cloud after-sales ticket	×
Service	ESA expert service	×	×	×
Others	Account permission management
Others	OpenAPI