Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs Databricks Notebooks

Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute plans

• Standard computing resources$22 a month
• Multi-zone HA computing resources$28.60 a month
• Elastically reserved CUs$0.05 a month
• Auto-elastic CUs$0.06 a month

Databricks Notebooks plans

• Pay as you goPriced on request
• Pay as you go—
• Committed Use ContractsPriced on request
• Committed Use Contracts—
• Free EditionFree
• Free trialFree

Pick Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute if…

MaxCompute suits teams working with cloud data lakes or streaming ingestion that also need in-database machine learning. Its different subscription and elastic compute options may be useful to teams choosing between fixed and scalable resources.

Pick Databricks Notebooks if…

Teams doing collaborative cloud data analysis; Users who need scheduled notebooks and Git diffs; Data work spanning several notebook languages