Cloudflare vs Fastly
Cloudflare is cheaper in all 2 categories where both compete.
Category by category
Each provider's cheapest published option in each category, on the axis that category is billed on. A dash means they do not sell into it.
| Category | Cloudflare | Rate | Fastly | Rate | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN & edge delivery | Cloudflare CDN | Free | Fastly | $0.120 | Cloudflare |
| Object storage | Cloudflare R2 | $0.015 | — | — | only one competes |
| Serverless functions | Cloudflare Workers | $5.00 | Fastly Compute | $50.00 | Cloudflare10× cheaper |
About each provider
Cloudflare
Headquartered in US · 3 priced services
An edge-first network that made zero egress fees its main commercial weapon. Storage and CDN products undercut the hyperscalers specifically on data transfer out.
Fastly
Headquartered in US · 2 priced services
A developer-oriented CDN built around instant purging and edge compute. Priced above the discount CDNs, and sold on configurability rather than on cost per gigabyte.
Questions
- Is Cloudflare or Fastly cheaper in 2026?
- Cloudflare is cheaper in all 2 categories where both compete. Picking a provider on an aggregate "cheaper" verdict is usually a mistake — what matters is which of them is cheaper in the categories you actually buy.
- What does Cloudflare offer that Fastly does not?
- In this dataset: Object storage. Fastly has no priced equivalent in that category.
- What does Fastly offer that Cloudflare does not?
- Nothing in this dataset — every category Fastly sells into, Cloudflare sells into as well.
- Should I use both?
- Often the cheapest answer, and the table above shows where the seams are. Splitting workloads across providers costs you cross-provider data transfer and a second bill to reason about, so it pays off when the per-category gap is large and the traffic between them is small.