Plan comparison

IBM Cloud® Internet Services offers several plans to choose from: no-cost Trial, Standard Next, and Enterprise Tier variations.

The no-cost Trial plan is the same as the Standard Next plan, except that it expires after 30 days. Only one trial is available per account. After the Trial plan expires, it is automatically subject to reclamation.

The numbers in these tables are quotas or resource limits for the associated feature. Features are pay-as-you-go, except for Trial and Standard Next plans.

The following table compares each offering to help you choose the one that's right for you. Enterprise Tier plans are available with different pricing models.

CIS plan comparison
	Standard Next	Enterprise Essentials	Enterprise Advanced	Enterprise Premier	Enterprise Usage
Domain	1 included More available for monthly cost per domain	1 included More available for monthly cost per domain	2 included More available for monthly cost per domain	2 included More available for monthly cost per domain	Up to 1000, but recommend no more than 20
Included protected traffic (does not include traffic that is related to an attack) Overage charges can occur	0.5 TB	5 TB	5 TB	5 TB	Not applicable (usage based)
Included requests and queries Overage charges can occur	5 M requests 1 M queries	150 requests and queries combined	150 requests and queries combined	150 requests and queries combined	Not applicable (usage based)
DNS	250 records	3500 records	3500 records	3500 records	3500 records
Global load balancers	3 pools 3 origin servers 5 Health checks 60s health checks Geo Routing Health checks from single region 60s minimum TTL for nonproxied global load balancers	20 pools 20 origin servers (more origins available for charge) 100 health checks 5s health checks Smart Routing Health checks from multiple regions 10s minimum TTL for nonproxied global load balancers	20 pools 20 origin servers (more origins available for charge) 100 health checks 5s health checks Smart Routing Health checks from multiple regions 10s minimum TTL for nonproxied global load balancers	20 pools 20 origin servers (more origins available for charge) 100 health checks 5s health checks Smart Routing Health checks from multiple regions 10s minimum TTL for nonproxied global load balancers	Up to 100 pools 100 origin servers Up to 100 health checks 5s health checks Smart Routing Health checks from multiple regions 10s minimum TTL for nonproxied global load balancers
WAF	OWASP and CIS rule set	OWASP and CIS rule set	OWASP and CIS rule set	OWASP and CIS rule set	OWASP and CIS rule set
Custom certificate	1 uploaded custom certificate per domain	25 included custom certificates More certificates can be added at a monthly rate	25 included custom certificates More certificates can be added at a monthly rate	25 included custom certificates More certificates can be added at a monthly rate	1 uploaded custom certificate per domain
Page rules	50 page rules per domain	100 page rules per domain More settings for fine-grained control	100 page rules per domain More settings for fine-grained control	100 page rules per domain More settings for fine-grained control	100 page rules per domain More settings for fine-grained control
IP firewall	All IP firewall rule actions Block is not available to Country filter 10 Domain lockdown rules 250 User agent rules	All IP firewall rule actions 200 Domain lockdown rules 1000 User agent rules	All IP firewall rule actions 200 Domain lockdown rules 1000 User agent rules	All IP firewall rule actions 200 Domain lockdown rules 1000 User agent rules	All IP firewall rule actions 200 Domain lockdown rules 1000 User agent rules
Caching	Basic caching options	Browser cache minimum TTL 30 seconds	Browser cache minimum TTL 30 seconds	Browser cache minimum TTL 30 seconds	Advanced caching options
Range	No	No	Yes 10 unique FQDNs Overage fees incurred past 5 TB of traffic	Yes 10 unique FQDNs Overage fees incurred past 5 TB of traffic	Yes 10 unique FQDNs
Edge functions	1 action (must be named after domain) 1 M Edge function requests	Unlimited actions	Unlimited actions	Unlimited actions	Unlimited actions
Firewall rules	100 active rules Does not support Log action Does not support matches operator	1000 active rules Supports all actions Supports all operators	1000 active rules Supports all actions Supports all operators	1000 active rules Supports all actions Supports all operators Supports bot management	1000 active rules Supports all actions Supports all operators
Smart routing	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Logging	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Alerts	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rate limiting	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bot management	No	No	No	Yes	No

Additional details

Traffic is protected when it is traffic through proxied CIS components, metered as traffic from the edge to the origin
HTTP request made on proxied resources (for example, DNS records and load balancers) count toward your protected traffic
When traffic is not proxied, it will only consume DNS queries during hostname resolution

Deprecated plans

The following plans are scheduled for deprecation or deprecated.

The Standard plan reached the end of marketing on 30 April 2023. The end of support is not yet determined.
Enterprise Package, Enterprise GLB, and Enterprise Security plans will reach the end of marketing on 31 August 2023. The end of support is not yet determined.

For more information about changing to a new plan if you are currently on a deprecated plan, see Transitioning to updated plans.