Alibaba Cloud offers flexible and cost-effective pricing options for its cloud services, catering to a wide range of customer needs. Key pricing models include pay-as-you-go, subscriptions, and reserved instances, with competitive rates designed to provide value. Alibaba Cloud also offers flexible support plans, ranging from free options to premium plans costing up to $8,000 per month. To assist customers in planning, a pricing calculator is available to estimate costs before committing. Outbound data transfer is billed based on the region and amount of data, with a free monthly quota of 50 TB available until December 31, 2024. Additionally, their serverless computing service, Function Compute, is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis, with a free tier offering 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month.