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Fastly Compute pricing
WebAssembly at the edge with sub-millisecond startup, aimed at request manipulation and personalisation rather than at general application hosting.
List prices checked
Rate card
What Fastly charges, by billing axis.
| Axis | Price | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | $50.00/mo | Cheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration |
| Free tier | Yes | Trial credit only |
Source: Fastly 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.
What it costs per month
Fastly Compute 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.
$50/mo
- Entry plan at $50/month$50
Growing SaaS
A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.
$50/mo
- Entry plan at $50/month$50
Media-heavy site
A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.
$50/mo
- Entry plan at $50/month$50
Fastly Compute vs the alternatives
The closest serverless platforms on price, with the difference on serverless functions's headline axis.
| Service | Entry plan | vs Fastly Compute | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel Functions | $20.00 | 2.5× cheaper | Head to head |
| Deno Deploy | $20.00 | 2.5× cheaper | Head to head |
| Netlify Functions | $19.00 | 2.6× cheaper | Head to head |
| Cloudflare Workers | $5.00 | 10× cheaper | Head to head |
| AWS Lambda | — | — | Head to head |
| Google Cloud Run | — | — | Head to head |
Questions about pricing
- How much does Fastly Compute cost in 2026?
- Fastly Compute charges $50.00 per month for the entry plan, per Fastly's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: Trial credit only. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
- Does Fastly Compute have a free tier?
- Yes — Trial credit only. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
- Are these Fastly Compute 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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