Tilaa vs Tencent Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Tilaa and Tencent Cloud.
Quick Verdict
3.7/5
Tilaa
0 reviews
3.6/5
Tencent Cloud
0 reviews
Tilaa is rated higher (3.7 vs 3.6). Tilaa is a Dutch cloud provider offering KVM Cloud VPS from two Dutch datacenters, ISO 27001 certified and GDPR-compliant, focused on the Dutch and Belgian market. Monthly pricing from €8.28/month promotional. Tencent Cloud is the cloud division of Tencent Holdings, the third-largest provider in China (15% share, Canalys Q3 2024) with about 2% of the global cloud market. Strong WeChat and gaming ecosystem integration; 22 regions with mainland China coverage.
Tilaa Dutch cloud VPS with EU privacy focus | Tencent Cloud China's second-largest cloud by Tencent | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.7 (0 reviews)✓ | 3.6 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Starting price | From $8.28/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | Dutch and Belgian organizations that need provable EU data sovereignty, a readable contract, and a provider small enough to talk to — especially healthcare, legal and government-adjacent SMBs. | Businesses with China or Asia-Pacific users, game studios, media delivery into mainland China, and teams building on the WeChat/mini-program ecosystem |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.95% | 99.975%✓ |
| Data-center count | 2 | 22✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €8.28 | €0.00✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €8.28 | €0.00✓ |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ✓ | |
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Netherlands (two Dutch datacenters) | 22 regions / 64 AZs incl. mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangkok, Mumbai, Silicon Valley, Virginia, Frankfurt, Moscow |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6eu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tierhourly billinggpu availableapac datacenterus datacenterapi access |
| Visit Tilaa → | Visit Tencent Cloud → | |
Tilaa
Pros
- + Dutch jurisdiction and Dutch-only datacenters — clean GDPR/data-sovereignty story
- + Unusually transparent spec sheet: CPU share percentages, RAID10 SSD details and fair-use traffic are all published
- + Included extras that competitors charge for: layer-4 DDoS protection, dedicated IPv4+IPv6, one free snapshot, unlimited fair-use traffic
- + 18 years of operating history with ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISAE 3402 Type 1 certifications
- + EC2-compatible metadata service and a real API, so standard cloud-init tooling works
Cons
- - Netherlands only — no US, APAC or multi-region footprint
- - Cores are percentage shares (60-80% per core), so the same vCPU count means less compute than elsewhere
- - Promotional entry pricing reverts to 40-60% higher list prices after six months
- - Managed backups (€0.161/GB/month) and extra snapshots are paid add-ons; free snapshot kept only 3 months
- - Hourly billing claimed in older listings is not verifiable on current pages — billing appears monthly
Tencent Cloud
Pros
- + 22 regions and 64 AZs with mainland China coverage that Western clouds cannot offer
- + Published per-hour CVM price lists by region and per-second pay-as-you-go billing
- + Published 99.975% single-instance SLA with 10-400 Gbps baseline DDoS protection included
- + Trial-based Free Tier across 30+ products (CVM 2C4G free for 3 months) plus aggressive new-user pricing
- + Native WeChat, mini-program and gaming ecosystem integration
Cons
- - Mainland China compliance (ICP registration, data law) is heavy friction for Western buyers
- - Documentation and console experience are inconsistent, with machine-translated pages
- - Sales-and-ticket support model; community ecosystem is thin outside Asia
- - Promotional pricing is the headline — steady-state costs on modern instance families are closer to hyperscaler rates
- - Price list is reference-only; actual order pricing governs
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