Alibaba Cloud vs Hyperstack: Pricing, Specs, Strengths & Weaknesses
Side-by-side comparison of GPU compute pricing, regions, billing models, and strengths for Alibaba Cloud and Hyperstack. Rates sourced from public APIs — verify current availability and billing terms before purchasing.
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Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) is Asia's largest cloud provider, offering Elastic GPU Service with L20 (8× NVIDIA L20, 48GB each, from $1,279/month), A10 (4× NVIDIA A10, 24GB each, from $676/month), V100, T4, and P100 instances across China, APAC, US, EU, and Middle East. Model Studio provides enterprise-grade access to Qwen3.8-Flash, Qwen3.7-Plus, Qwen3.8-Max, Wan2.7 (T2V/I2V), DeepSeek V4 Pro, HappyHorse-1.1-T2V, and 20+ models. AI Token Plan from $6/month. AI Savings Plan saves up to 47%. AIACC-Training and AIACC-Inference accelerators optimize GPU utilization. FastGPU for rapid cluster deployment. cGPU for GPU sharing across containers.
- L20 GPU instances (8× L20, 48GB each) — latest available in APAC
- Model Studio: Qwen3.8, Wan2.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro, HappyHorse T2V
- AI Token Plan from $6/month — wide model access in Asia
- AIACC-Training/Inference accelerators for GPU optimization
- APAC coverage — China, Southeast Asia, Middle East
- AI Savings Plan up to 47% off
- Primarily China/APAC focused — limited global regions
- Data sovereignty concerns for non-Chinese teams
- Less mature ML ecosystem vs AWS/GCP outside Asia
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Hyperstack (by NexGen Cloud) is a full-stack AI cloud offering NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, GB300 NVL72, HGX B200, HGX B300, H200 SXM, H100 SXM, H100 NVLink, H100 PCIe, A100 SXM, A100, L40, RTX A6000, RTX A4000, and RTX Pro 6000 SE instances with per-minute billing. Reservation and spot VMs available. 100% renewable energy. Managed Kubernetes, object storage, Terraform, Go/Python SDKs, LLM Inference Toolkit.
- B300, B200, H200 — competitive Blackwell and Hopper pricing
- A4000 — cheapest enterprise GPU for light workloads
- Per-minute billing — pay only for what you use
- 100% renewable energy across all data centers
- Wide GPU catalog: 13 SKUs from A4000 to GB300 NVL72
- Managed Kubernetes, Terraform, Go/Python SDKs, LLM Inference Toolkit
- Smaller provider — limited scale vs CoreWeave or hyperscalers
- Fewer regions than major cloud providers
- B300 on-demand not yet available (reserved private clusters only as of Sept 2026)
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3.8, Wan2.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro, HappyHorse T2V — Asia's largest AI cloud with L20 and A10 GPUs
Hyperstack
B300, B200, H200, H100 — per-minute billing, 100% renewable energy