Auth0 vs Fastly

Customer identity platform from Okta
vs. Edge cloud platform — CDN + compute + security + observability

Auth0 website ↗Fastly website ↗

Pricing tiers

Auth0

B2C Essentials

Starting at 500 MAUs. Pro MFA, RBAC, passwordless, SAML, 10 orgs.

$35/mo

B2B Essentials

Unlimited orgs, 3 SSO connections, RBAC.

$150/mo

B2C Professional

Starting at 500 MAUs. Includes attack protection, custom DB, enterprise MFA.

$240/mo

B2B Professional

5+ SSO connections, attack protection, custom DB.

$800/mo

Enterprise

Custom. 99.99% SLA, dedicated support.

Custom

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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 b2c-essentials on Auth0 vs free on Fastly.

Metric	Auth0	Fastly
mau start	500 MAU	—
sso connections	0 conns	—

Features

Auth0 · 14 features

Attack Protection — Bot detection, brute-force protection, breached-password detection, suspicious I…
Auth0 Actions — Node.js + TS hooks that run during auth flows (login, post-login, signup, MFA). …
Auth0 FGA (OpenFGA) — Fine-grained relationship-based authorization (ReBAC). Based on Google Zanzibar.
Custom Database — BYO user DB: scripts in Actions read from your database and create Auth0 users o…
Custom Domain — Serve auth at auth.yourbrand.com with managed cert.
Enterprise SSO — SAML 2.0 + OIDC + AD/LDAP enterprise connections. Per-tenant or per-org.
Log Streaming — Stream tenant logs to Datadog, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Azure Sentinel, HTTP, Mixpane…
Machine-to-Machine — Client-credentials grant for backend services.
Multi-Factor Auth — SMS, Voice, Email, TOTP, WebAuthn (biometrics), Push (Guardian app), Duo.
Organizations — Multi-tenant B2B: orgs with invitations, roles, branding, enterprise connections…
Passkeys — FIDO2/WebAuthn passkey sign-in.
Passwordless — Email magic link + code, SMS code, WebAuthn.
RBAC — Roles, permissions, API scopes — attach to users or orgs.
Universal Login — Hosted login page with customization, multi-factor flows, passwordless, social, …

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

Kind	Auth0	Fastly
CLI	Auth0 CLI	Fastly CLI
SDK	Auth0 Android, Auth0 iOS/Swift, @auth0/nextjs-auth0, Auth0 React SDK, Auth0 SPA.js SDK, Go Auth0 SDK, Node Auth0 Backend SDK, Python Auth0 SDK	compute-go-starter, compute-js-starter, compute-rust-starter
REST	Authentication API, Management API	Fastly API
OTHER	—	Compute@Edge (Wasm), VCL (Varnish)

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