Fastly Alternatives for Edge Compute and CDN Delivery

Fastly is a CDN and edge cloud built for developers. It runs two products on one network: the classic CDN, configured with VCL, and Compute, which runs WebAssembly at the edge. The company is alive and still publishes self-serve prices: the Fastly pricing page lists a monthly free allowance, then $0.12 per GB of bandwidth in North America and Europe up to 10 TB and $0.01 per 10,000 requests. Packages start at $500 a month for Compute and $1,500 for Network Services.

Developers compare it with others for three reasons: bandwidth is pricey next to newer CDNs, TLS certificates beyond the first five domains cost $20 each a month, and some teams want a second network after the June 2021 outage. The seven picks below lead with platforms where you can run code at the edge, then cover cheaper delivery-only CDNs.

Prices below are as of November 8, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Cloudflare

Workers is the closest thing to Fastly Compute with a lower entry price. The Free plan runs 100,000 requests a day with 10 ms of CPU time per request. The paid plan costs at least $5 a month, includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds, and then bills $0.30 per million requests and $0.02 per million CPU milliseconds.

Data transfer from Workers is not billed, which is the biggest cost gap with Fastly for bandwidth-heavy apps. The CDN plans sit alongside: Pro is $20 a month billed yearly or $25 monthly.

Best for: Developers who want edge functions and a CDN without a per-GB bill.

Pricing:

• Workers Free: 100,000 requests a day
• Workers Paid: from $5 a month, billed monthly, 10 million requests included
• CDN plans: Free, Pro $20 a month billed yearly, Business $200 a month billed yearly

Watch out for:

• Fastly is not the only CDN with a bad day on record. A malformed Bot Management file broke core Cloudflare traffic from 11:20 to about 14:30 UTC on November 18, 2025, with all services back by 17:06, according to Cloudflare's post-mortem.

Official site: Cloudflare.

Amazon CloudFront

For apps on AWS, CloudFront keeps origin traffic inside one bill. It offers two edge runtimes: CloudFront Functions for light header and URL rewrites at $0.10 per million invocations, and Lambda@Edge for heavier code at $0.60 per million requests plus duration. Pay-as-you-go includes 1 TB and 10 million requests free each month.

Since November 2025 AWS also sells flat monthly plans per distribution, from Free to $1,000 Premium, with WAF and DNS bundled. Our CloudFront alternatives guide covers those plans in detail.

Best for: Teams whose origins already live in S3, EC2 or AWS load balancers.

Pricing:

• Pay-as-you-go: 1 TB and 10 million requests free a month, then $0.085 per GB (US, Europe)
• CloudFront Functions: $0.10 per million invocations
• Lambda@Edge: $0.60 per million requests plus duration
• Flat-rate plans: $0, $15, $200 or $1,000 a month per distribution

Watch out for:

• Lambda@Edge has no free tier and is billed on top of any flat-rate plan, per the CloudFront pay-as-you-go page.
• The flat plans do not support real-time logs or dedicated-IP SSL, so log-heavy setups stay on metered billing.

Official site: Amazon CloudFront.

Bunny.net

If Fastly's bandwidth line is what hurts, Bunny fixes it. Standard delivery costs $0.01 per GB in Europe and North America across 119 PoPs, with no request fees, and the Volume network goes down to $0.005 per GB. A site pushing 10 TB a month pays about $100 on Standard, against roughly $1,200 at Fastly's first-tier rate.

Edge Scripting adds code at the edge on a separate price list, though it is younger than Fastly Compute.

Best for: Static sites, downloads and video where bandwidth is most of the bill.

Pricing:

• Standard: $0.01 per GB (Europe, North America), $0.03 (Asia, Oceania)
• Volume: $0.005 per GB for the first 500 TB
• $1 monthly minimum, billed monthly; 14-day trial

Watch out for:

• Rates rise sharply outside the West. The Bunny pricing page lists $0.045 per GB in South America and $0.06 in the Middle East and Africa.

Official site: Bunny.net.

Gcore

Gcore pairs a CDN with FastEdge, a serverless runtime that runs WebAssembly, the same model as Fastly Compute. The first terabyte of CDN traffic each month is free with no card required, and the network lists more than 210 PoPs.

After the free terabyte, delivery costs €0.01 per GB up to 500 TB, with automatic discounts down to €0.005 above 2 PB.

Best for: Developers who want WebAssembly at the edge and a free monthly allowance.

Pricing:

• CDN: first 1 TB free each month
• €0.01 per GB from 1 TB to 500 TB, billed monthly
• Prices in euros, excluding VAT

Watch out for:

• FastEdge is priced separately from Gcore CDN traffic, so budget the compute side before you port Compute code.

Official site: Gcore.

Akamai

Akamai's edge code product is EdgeWorkers, backed by EdgeKV for key-value data, and it also sells Akamai Functions as serverless on Akamai Cloud. Delivery covers websites with Ion, APIs, adaptive video and large downloads. It suits companies that already buy security and delivery from one vendor.

Getting started means a free trial arranged with sales.

Best for: Enterprises that want edge code, media delivery and security under one contract.

Pricing:

• CDN and EdgeWorkers: price on request
• Free trials through sales

Watch out for:

• No self-serve sign-up. The Akamai CDN page routes buyers to Contact Sales, which slows down a developer who wants to try code at the edge today.

Official site: Akamai.

Azure Front Door

Front Door is Microsoft's global entry point and CDN in one service. It is mainly a delivery and routing product. Its pricing lists edge actions at $0.10 per million invocations, but a full Fastly Compute app would more likely move to Azure Functions in a region. Microsoft is retiring its classic CDN and Front Door profiles in 2027, so new Azure projects land here.

Edge-to-client traffic costs $0.083 per GB in North America and Europe for the first 10 TB, cheaper than Fastly's $0.12.

Best for: Apps hosted on Azure that need a CDN and global load balancing.

Pricing:

• Standard: $35 a month base fee plus $0.009 per 10,000 requests
• Premium: $330 a month base fee plus $0.015 per 10,000 requests
• Data to clients: $0.083 per GB, first 10 TB

Watch out for:

• There is no free allowance. The Front Door pricing page charges the base fee every month, while Fastly's first 100 GB cost nothing.

Official site: Azure Front Door.

KeyCDN

KeyCDN is the no-frills option. You create a zone, point a CNAME at it and pay per GB, with free TLS, no request fees and the first three zones free. Its entry rate of $0.04 per GB in North America and Europe is a third of Fastly's.

There is no edge runtime, so it fits teams that only used Fastly as a cache.

Best for: Small teams that want simple, cheap delivery and no edge code.

Pricing:

• $0.04 per GB (North America, Europe) for the first 10 TB
• $4 monthly minimum usage charge
• $49 minimum payment, prepaid

Watch out for:

• You pay up front. The KeyCDN pricing page sets a $49 minimum payment, and Asia and Oceania start at $0.08 per GB.

Official site: KeyCDN.

How to choose

When to stay with Fastly

Stay with Fastly if your team writes VCL or Compute code and relies on its edge logic more than its bandwidth price. Compute's free allowance of 10 million requests and 100 million vCPU milliseconds a month is generous, and its request rate of $0.50 per million undercuts Lambda@Edge. Moving that logic to Workers or FastEdge means a rewrite, not a config export.

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