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Fastly
Edge cloud platform — CDN + compute + security + observability
Enterprise-grade edge platform. VCL-based CDN + Wasm Compute@Edge + Next-Gen WAF + Bot Management + API Security. Usage-based + package plans.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | Free | Free allowances: 100 GB bandwidth, 1M CDN requests, 10M Edge Compute requests, 100M vCPU-ms, 500K DDoS requests. |
| Pay-as-you-go | Free | Usage-based rates with volume discounts. No minimum commitment. |
| Basic Package | $1500/mo | $1,500/month. 100M requests. Standard support. |
| Starter Package | $6000/mo | $6,000/month. 500M requests. Gold support. |
| Advantage | Custom | Custom. 2B requests. Gold support. |
| Ultimate | Custom | Custom. 5B+ requests. Enterprise support. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | bandwidth rate | $0.08-$0.28/GB by region + volume | CDN bandwidth |
| — | compute request rate | $0.50/M (10M-500M tier) | Edge compute request rate |
| — | compute vcpu rate | $0.05/M vCPU-ms (100M-5B) | vCPU compute |
| — | ddos rate | $1.00 per 10k requests (500K-10M) | DDoS protection |
| — | enterprise addons | Bot Management, Next-Gen WAF, API Security (custom quote) | Security addons |
| — | fanout rate | $0.50/M minutes (100M-2B) | Fanout/WebSockets |
| — | free edge requests | 10000000 requests/month | Free edge compute requests |
| — | free monthly bw | 100 GB | Free monthly bandwidth |
| — | free monthly requests | 1000000 requests/month | Free monthly requests |
| — | free vcpu ms | 100000000 ms/month | Free vCPU milliseconds |
| — | instant purge | Global purge in <150ms | Instant purge |
| — | request rate | $0.01 per 10k requests (1M-100M) | CDN request rate |
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
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| compute | Compute@Edge (Wasm) | other | — |
| sdk-compute-go | compute-go-starter | sdk | — |
| sdk-compute-js | compute-js-starter | sdk | — |
| sdk-compute-rust | compute-rust-starter | sdk | — |
| rest-api | Fastly API | rest | v1 |
| fastly-cli | Fastly CLI | cli | 11.x |
| vcl | VCL (Varnish) | other | — |
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