CDN & edge delivery pricing compared
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.
List prices checked
Rate cards
All 11 CDN providers in the dataset, sorted by the axis this category is actually billed on.
| Service | Provider | Entry /mo | Egress /GB | Storage /GB-mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare CDN | Cloudflare | $20.00 | Free | — |
| Bunny CDN | bunny.net | — | $0.010 | — |
| CDN77 | CDN77 | — | $0.025 | — |
| CacheFly | CDN77 | — | $0.030 | — |
| Gcore CDN | Gcore | $5.00 | $0.040 | — |
| KeyCDN | KeyCDN | — | $0.040 | — |
| Google Cloud CDN | — | $0.080 | — | |
| Azure Front Door | Microsoft | $35.00 | $0.081 | — |
| AWS CloudFront | Amazon Web Services | — | $0.085 | — |
| Akamai CDN | Akamai | — | $0.085 | — |
| Fastly | Fastly | — | $0.120 | — |
Ranked by real monthly cost: Growing SaaS
A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers. Each provider's own published rates, applied to identical usage.
| # | Service | Monthly | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare CDN | $0 | Data transfer out $0 |
| 2 | Gcore CDN | $0 | Data transfer out $0 |
| 3 | AWS CloudFront | $0 | Data transfer out $0 |
| 4 | Bunny CDN | $10 | Data transfer out $10 |
| 5 | CDN77 | $25 | Data transfer out $25 |
| 6 | CacheFly | $30 | Data transfer out $30 |
| 7 | KeyCDN | $40 | Data transfer out $40 |
| 8 | Google Cloud CDN | $80 | Data transfer out $80 |
| 9 | Azure Front Door | $81 | Data transfer out $81 |
| 10 | Akamai CDN | $85 | Data transfer out $85 |
| 11 | Fastly | $108 | Data transfer out $108 |
Excludes committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges. Services that do not publish a rate for every axis this category bills on are listed last rather than shown as cheap.
Questions
- What is the cheapest CDN provider in 2026?
- For the "Growing SaaS" workload — a funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers. — Cloudflare CDN comes out cheapest at $0 per month on published list prices. Ranked purely on the headline rate the order is different, which is why both tables are on this page.
- Which CDN is cheapest for my monthly traffic volume, and where does the cheap option stop being cheap?
- The second table answers it directly: it applies each provider's published rates to one identical workload and ranks by the resulting monthly bill. Change the workload and the ranking changes — that is the point, and it is why a single "best" list is usually wrong.
- Are these cdn & edge delivery prices current?
- Each row is stamped with the month it was last checked against the provider's own pricing page, and every service page links straight to that page. Providers change list prices without notice, so treat these as a starting point and confirm before you commit.