Well I mean, the Cloud Alpha sells for twice the price ($99 vs $49) and it's a whole different class and category of product, as it should be.

The Alpha has a sleeker design, a removable cable, a removable microphone, more dense memory foam in the ear pads, and a dual chamber ear cup design targeting a neutral-ish sound signature with clean bass.

The Stinger 2 has an all-plastic frame, permanently attached everything, and a driver first used in the Stinger 1 to achieve more of a v-shaped gaming headset style of sound. The sound quality is noticeably better in the Stinger 2, but it's still closer to a fun sculpted "gaming" style sound than the Alpha.

I don't normally compare products across such widely different price classes, because they're built so differently and targeting different audiences. You could buy two Stinger 2's for the price of one Alpha.

If you don't need any of the features of the Alpha, then you probably also don't need the features of most $99 gaming headsets. Both are very good in their respective price classes, with the Stinger 2 among my favorite budget headsets of the year.

https://xander51.medium.com/my-favorite-budget-gaming-headsets-of-the-year-298b39e0bb94

A more interesting comparison for me personally might be between the Alpha, the Stinger 2 Wireless, and the Cloud Core Wireless, all of which sit around the same price point--but I haven't shipped in a Stinger 2 Wireless yet, and with the current state of my budget and the backlog of articles I still have to work on around gaming stuff, it might be a while.