How much does Fastly cost?

Fastly publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Trial up to Free for Pay-As-You-Go. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Fastly have a free plan?

Yes. The Free Trial tier costs nothing and covers cdn, ddos protection, real-time analytics.

What is the difference between Free Trial and Pay-As-You-Go on Fastly?

Pay-As-You-Go costs Free against Free, and adds usage-based pricing, advanced features, priority support, custom solutions.

What am I actually paying for with Fastly?

The record lists 17 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for serving static and dynamic content through a global cdn, running edge logic and caching in front of an origin application.

Does Fastly charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Fastly prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Fastly against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Fastly to make a useful price comparison.

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Fastly pricing

Fastly publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Usage-based
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Fastly plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Fastly pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free Trial	Free	4	Entry tier
Pay-As-You-Go	Free	4	+$0/month, 4 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free Trial

Free

The entry tier. It covers cdn, ddos protection, real-time analytics, 50 gb free bandwidth.

Pay-As-You-Go

Free

Over Free Trial, this tier adds:

Usage-based pricing
Advanced features
Priority support
Custom solutions

Where Fastly stops being free

Free Trial, Free

CDN
DDoS protection
Real-time analytics
50 GB free bandwidth

No paid tier on record

Fastly lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Fastly feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Edge Compute
CDN
DDoS Protection
Real-time Analytics
Image Optimization
Video Streaming
API
Instant Purge

Integrations

GitHub
Terraform
Datadog

Security

DDoS protection
SSL/TLS
API Security

Deployment

Cloud deployment

Platform

Web support
Api support

People bring Fastly in for serving static and dynamic content through a global cdn, running edge logic and caching in front of an origin application. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Fastly are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Fastly

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and Free, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Fastly runs on web, api, and is published by Fastly Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Fastly review.

Fastly pricing on the vendor's own site

Fastly pricing questions

How much does Fastly cost?: Fastly publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Trial up to Free for Pay-As-You-Go. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Fastly have a free plan?: Yes. The Free Trial tier costs nothing and covers cdn, ddos protection, real-time analytics.
What is the difference between Free Trial and Pay-As-You-Go on Fastly?: Pay-As-You-Go costs Free against Free, and adds usage-based pricing, advanced features, priority support, custom solutions.
What am I actually paying for with Fastly?: The record lists 17 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for serving static and dynamic content through a global cdn, running edge logic and caching in front of an origin application.
Does Fastly charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Fastly prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Fastly against before paying?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Fastly to make a useful price comparison.

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