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28 Alibaba Cloud alternatives in 2026

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The best alternatives to Alibaba Cloud for web search APIs: Clawifi, SerpScraper.dev and browserfoundry by keirolabs, by our benchmark. Alibaba Cloud's website is alibabacloud.com.

Web search API alternatives

Clawifi, SerpScraper.dev and browserfoundry by keirolabs are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Alibaba Cloud plan pages, we compare each Alibaba Cloud plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
Diffbot, $299 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v1/web_search$1.20
Alibaba Cloud IQS, pay as you go, Lite (engineType CNLiteBasic)$1.20
Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search$1.20
Searlo, $799 pack, Enterprise, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, full$1.20
Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up$2.67
Spider Cloud, top-up from $2,000, Pay as you go, $2,000 or more (+12% credits), POST /search, Search and crawl$2.68
fastCRW, $47 pack, Standard top-up, POST /v1/search, Search$2.68
Anspire, top-up, Standard Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you go$4.49
Bocha, CNY 3,000 pack$4.49
ShowAPI, CNY 600 pack$4.49

Compare every web search API plan: Web search API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Email verification API alternatives

pingutil, looot and MailTester Ninja are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Alibaba Cloud plan pages, we compare each Alibaba Cloud plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 emails first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 emails
Bouncer, $750 pack, Pay as you go, 250,000 credits, POST /v1.1/email/verify/batch$3.00
DeBounce, top-up from $15, 5K credits, GET /v1/, Single email validation$3.00
ExactVerify, $15 pack, Pay-As-You-Go from 5,000 emails, GET /v1/single$3.00
OrbiSearch, $30 pack, Starter, POST /v1/bulk$3.00
BounceBan, top-up from $175, 50,000 Credits, Pay-As-You-Go, POST /v1/verify/bulk$3.50
ClearBounce, $17.50 pack, 5,000 credits, POST /bulk/upload$3.50
EmailAwesome, $7 monthly$3.50
Mailerio, $17.50 pack, Pay as you go 5,000 emails, GET /v{version}/validate$3.50
Easy Email Verification, $200 pack, Pay-as-you-go, 50,000 emails, POST /bulk/upload$4.00
QuickEmailVerification, $200 pack, Persistent Credits, 50,000 credits, GET /v1/verify$4.00

Compare every email verification API plan: Email verification API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Phone validation API alternatives

Trestle, Data247 and Abstract API are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Alibaba Cloud plan pages, we compare each Alibaba Cloud plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 phones first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 phones
Rapiwa, $134.40 yearly$1.49
TCPA Litigator List, $299 monthly, API Silver, POST /scrub/phone/$1.50
Consulta Operadora, pay as you go, Consultas On-Line 37.500, GET /sistema/consulta_resumida.php$1.50
APIHZ, top-up, Mengdian credit top-up, GET /api/other/phonezts.php$1.50
NumCheckr, $29 monthly$14.50
1Lookup, $2,990 yearly, Growth (annual), POST /bulk/jobs, Create a bulk job (type hlr_lookup)$14.66
TanshuAPI, CNY 100 pack$14.96
2Chat, $372 yearly, Single Plan, GET /open/whatsapp/check-number/{your-number}/{number-to-check}, Check Number$15.50

Compare every phone validation API plan: Phone validation API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

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