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Anthropic API vs Fastly

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Edge cloud platform — CDN + compute + security + observability

Anthropic website ↗Fastly website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Fastly

Free Trial
Free allowances: 100 GB bandwidth, 1M CDN requests, 10M Edge Compute requests, 100M vCPU-ms, 500K DDoS requests.
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Usage-based rates with volume discounts. No minimum commitment.
$0 base (usage-based)
Basic Package
$1,500/month. 100M requests. Standard support.
$1500/mo
Starter Package
$6,000/month. 500M requests. Gold support.
$6000/mo
Advantage
Custom. 2B requests. Gold support.
Custom
Ultimate
Custom. 5B+ requests. Enterprise support.
Custom
Fastly website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs free on Fastly.

MetricAnthropic APIFastly
discount batch50 % off—

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Fastly · 16 features

    • API Security — Schema validation + rate limiting.
    • Bot Management — Behavioral bot detection + mitigation.
    • CDN — Global Varnish-based CDN with VCL customization.
    • Compute@Edge — Wasm-based serverless at 200+ POPs. Rust, JS, Go.
    • DDoS Protection — Included on all plans.
    • Fanout (WebSockets) — Persistent connection fan-out at edge.
    • Image Optimization — On-the-fly resize/format/quality.
    • Instant Purge — <150ms global cache invalidation.
    • KV Store (Config) — Edge key-value store for config.
    • Live Streaming — HLS + DASH live video delivery.
    • Log Streaming — Real-time logs to S3, Datadog, Splunk, Azure, GCS, Kafka.
    • Managed TLS — Automated cert issuance + renewal.
    • Next-Gen WAF — Signal Sciences acquired — runtime app protection.
    • Real-Time Analytics — Sub-second log streaming + metrics.
    • Secret Store — Encrypted secrets at edge.
    • Shield POP — Origin shield to reduce origin load.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIFastly
    CLIClaude Code CLIFastly CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)compute-go-starter, compute-js-starter, compute-rust-starter
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Fastly API
    OTHER—Compute@Edge (Wasm), VCL (Varnish)
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