Fastly pricing

A programmable CDN with instant global purge and edge compute. Priced at the top of the market per gigabyte and sold on control rather than cost, with a permanent 100 GB monthly free allowance.

List prices checked

By Fastly · CDN & edge delivery

Rate card

What Fastly charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Data transfer out$0.120/GB100 GB included, then metered
Free tierYes100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free

Source: Fastly pricing (August 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.

What it costs per month

Fastly billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$0/mo

  • 100 GB used, 100 GB included, 0 GB billable at $0.12/GB$0

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$108/mo

  • 1 TB used, 100 GB included, 900 GB billable at $0.12/GB$108

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$1,188/mo

  • 10 TB used, 100 GB included, 9.9 TB billable at $0.12/GB$1,188

Fastly vs the alternatives

The closest CDN providers on price, with the difference on cdn & edge delivery's headline axis.

ServiceEgressvs FastlyCompare
AWS CloudFront$0.0851.4× cheaperHead to head
Akamai CDN$0.0851.4× cheaperHead to head
Azure Front Door$0.0811.5× cheaperHead to head
Google Cloud CDN$0.0801.5× cheaperHead to head
Gcore CDN$0.0403× cheaperHead to head
KeyCDN$0.0403× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Fastly cost in 2026?
Fastly charges $0.120 per GB for data transfer out, per Fastly's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Fastly have a free tier?
Yes — 100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does Fastly charge for egress?
$0.120 per GB, after 100 GB included in the plan. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.
Are these Fastly prices current?
They were checked against Fastly's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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