# Alibaba Cloud alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 246 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Alibaba Cloud holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/alibaba-cloud/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Amazon Web Services: 68
- DigitalOcean Droplets: 57
- Microsoft Azure: 46
- Google Cloud: 7
- Atlantic.Net: 6
- Vultr: 5

## Cloud hosting

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Alibaba Cloud.

- DigitalOcean Droplets: first choice in 41 of those 84
- Amazon Web Services: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Hetzner: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Render: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Atlantic.Net: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Cloudways: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Microsoft Azure: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Vultr: first choice in 3 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud is #13 of 14 at 0%).

- Amazon Web Services: first choice in 26 of those 82
- Microsoft Azure: first choice in 18 of those 82
- DigitalOcean Droplets: first choice in 15 of those 82
- Akamai Connected Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 82
- Atlantic.Net: first choice in 3 of those 82
- Google Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Vultr: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Amazon Web Services, AWS: first choice in 1 of those 82

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud is #8 of 8 at 0%).

- Amazon Web Services: first choice in 37 of those 80
- Microsoft Azure: first choice in 25 of those 80
- Google Cloud: first choice in 5 of those 80
- Azure: first choice in 4 of those 80
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: first choice in 4 of those 80
- DigitalOcean Droplets: first choice in 1 of those 80
- GCP: first choice in 1 of those 80
- Microsoft Azure with an Enterprise Agreement: first choice in 1 of those 80

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