Fastly vs Google
Google is cheaper in all 1 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 | Fastly | Rate | Rate | Cheaper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN & edge delivery | Fastly | $0.120 | Google Cloud CDN | $0.080 | Google1.5× cheaper |
| Cloud compute & VPS | — | — | Google Compute Engine | $0.048 | only one competes |
| GPU cloud | — | — | Google Cloud A3 | $6.98 | only one competes |
| Object storage | — | — | Google Cloud Storage | $0.020 | only one competes |
| Serverless functions | Fastly Compute | $50.00 | — | — | only one competes |
| Managed databases | — | — | Google Cloud SQL | $9.37 | only one competes |
About each provider
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.
Headquartered in US · 6 priced services
Google Cloud for infrastructure and the Gemini API for models. Compute pricing is competitive with AWS, and sustained-use discounts apply automatically rather than requiring a commitment.
Questions
- Is Fastly or Google cheaper in 2026?
- Google is cheaper in all 1 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 Fastly offer that Google does not?
- In this dataset: Serverless functions. Google has no priced equivalent in that category.
- What does Google offer that Fastly does not?
- In this dataset: Cloud compute & VPS, GPU cloud, Object storage, Managed databases. Fastly has no priced equivalent in those categories.
- 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.