Cloudflare CDN alternatives

10 CDN providers compared against Cloudflare CDN on egress per GB. Cloudflare CDN is kept in the table and highlighted, because it is the number everything else here is measured against.

List prices checked

Ranked by egress per GB

Cheapest first. "vs Cloudflare CDN" shows how many times cheaper or dearer each one is on the same axis.

#ServiceProvideregress per GBvs Cloudflare CDNFree tier
1Cloudflare CDNyou are hereCloudflareFree—Unmetered CDN bandwidth on every plan including free
2Bunny CDNbunny.net$0.010—14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum
3CDN77CDN77$0.025—14-day trial with 1 TB of traffic
4CacheFlyCDN77$0.030—None
5Gcore CDNGcore$0.040—1 TB per month on the free CDN plan
6KeyCDNKeyCDN$0.040—$10 of trial credit; $4 monthly minimum thereafter
7Google Cloud CDNGoogle$0.080—None
8Azure Front DoorMicrosoft$0.081—None
9AWS CloudFrontAmazon Web Services$0.085—1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free
10Akamai CDNAkamai$0.085—None
11FastlyFastly$0.120—100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free

Source: Cloudflare pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

Questions

What is the best alternative to Cloudflare CDN in 2026?
Nothing in this category undercuts Cloudflare CDN on egress per GB at list price, which makes it the cheapest option in the table above. The reasons to move would be region coverage, feature set, or avoiding vendor concentration rather than price.
How many alternatives to Cloudflare CDN are there?
10 in this dataset, all CDN providers with published list prices. The table ranks every one of them on egress per GB with Cloudflare CDN highlighted in place, so you can see exactly where it sits rather than taking a "top 5" on trust.
Is switching from Cloudflare CDN worth it?
It depends on which axis dominates your bill. Content delivery networks cache your files in points of presence near your users. Almost the entire bill is data transfer out, so the per-gigabyte egress rate — which varies by more than 100x across this category — decides what you pay. Run your own volumes through the comparison pages linked below before migrating — a provider that is cheaper per unit can still be more expensive for your particular usage shape.
Are there free alternatives to Cloudflare CDN?
6 of them publish a free tier — they are marked in the table. Check whether each is permanent or a 12-month trial; the two look identical on a pricing page and are very different a year in.

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