KeyCDN alternatives
10 CDN providers compared against KeyCDN on egress per GB. KeyCDN 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 KeyCDN" shows how many times cheaper or dearer each one is on the same axis.
| # | Service | Provider | egress per GB | vs KeyCDN | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare CDN | Cloudflare | Free | — | Unmetered CDN bandwidth on every plan including free |
| 2 | Bunny CDN | bunny.net | $0.010 | 4× cheaper | 14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum |
| 3 | CDN77 | CDN77 | $0.025 | 1.6× cheaper | 14-day trial with 1 TB of traffic |
| 4 | CacheFly | CDN77 | $0.030 | 1.3× cheaper | None |
| 5 | Gcore CDN | Gcore | $0.040 | same | 1 TB per month on the free CDN plan |
| 6 | KeyCDNyou are here | KeyCDN | $0.040 | — | $10 of trial credit; $4 monthly minimum thereafter |
| 7 | Google Cloud CDN | $0.080 | 2× dearer | None | |
| 8 | Azure Front Door | Microsoft | $0.081 | 2× dearer | None |
| 9 | AWS CloudFront | Amazon Web Services | $0.085 | 2× dearer | 1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free |
| 10 | Akamai CDN | Akamai | $0.085 | 2× dearer | None |
| 11 | Fastly | Fastly | $0.120 | 3.3× dearer | 100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free |
Source: KeyCDN pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Last checked against the vendor’s page on 2026-08-07.
Questions
- What is the best alternative to KeyCDN in 2026?
- On egress per GB, Bunny CDN is the cheapest alternative — roughly 4× cheaper than KeyCDN. Cheapest is not automatically best: check the free tier, the region list, and what each one does not charge for before switching.
- How many alternatives to KeyCDN 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 KeyCDN highlighted in place, so you can see exactly where it sits rather than taking a "top 5" on trust.
- Is switching from KeyCDN 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 KeyCDN?
- 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.