Fastly vs Netlify
Netlify 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 | Netlify | Rate | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN & edge delivery | Fastly | $0.120 | — | — | only one competes |
| Serverless functions | Fastly Compute | $50.00 | Netlify Functions | $19.00 | Netlify2.6× cheaper |
| Application platforms | — | — | Netlify | $9.00 | 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.
Netlify
Headquartered in US · 2 priced services
A frontend hosting platform with generous build tooling and the most expensive overage bandwidth of the major PaaS options.
Questions
- Is Fastly or Netlify cheaper in 2026?
- Netlify 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 Netlify does not?
- In this dataset: CDN & edge delivery. Netlify has no priced equivalent in that category.
- What does Netlify offer that Fastly does not?
- In this dataset: Application platforms. Fastly has no priced equivalent in that category.
- 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.